Turn to Face the Change

Read Kirk James Murphy: Another Gift From Global Climate Change: That Ugly Weather for context.

The Change is here, like it or not, and whatever we do, it's likely to accelerate. The pH of the ocean is already starting to change. And beetle infestations are destroying the great northern forests.

The only thing we can do is try to slow the rate of change, and foster adaptations that will stabilize life on the planet.

Again, this isn't the first time in the history of the world this has happened, although in the past the greenhousing hasn't had an allegedly sapient source [we'll debate hominid sapience later- Vonnegut was never convinced].

There are a number of plants well adapted to whether extreme climatic changes.

Consider the bald cypress. The image you may have in your mind is a tree like this:



This tree is notable for withstanding hurricane and tornadic winds as well as flood.

But it doesn't require immersion in water for growth either.



It's grown as an ornamental.



It has decent drought tolerance. Moreover, it can grow in a climate as cold as Minnesota, and with a life-span as long as a thousand years, grows to over a hundred feet tall and twenty in diameter.

That's a lot of carbon fixed.

The point is, we live under a variable star, and as traumatic as the next century is likely to be in climate change, there is only so much water tied up as ice. It's all melted before. There is life that's able to handle the changes.

We'd be best advised to take advantage of the biodiversity of the world and learn from it.