I enjoyed this Sunday’s New York Times op-ed column by Pulitzer-prize winning author, Thomas L. Friedman (free subscription required). He comments on the fact that the Weather Channel is becoming the news channel as changes to our climate continue to be big news.
Friedman asks the important question, considering the context of a extremely dry season in southern California, coupled with record-breaking strong winds that led to massively destructive fires.
“Is man’s cumulative impact on the climate now as responsible for the weather as Mother Nature herself? We may have introduced enough of man’s economic activities — enough CO2 emissions — into Mother Nature’s operating system that we cannot determine anymore where she stopped and we started.”
Friedman states that the faulty infrastructure that amplifies the affect of natural disaster–particularly in the case of hurricane Katrina–should become a priority.
