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— the scientists were always cautious about saying anything in the paper. They were afraid of being accused of being sensationalists. That has to change. The polarizing language being used across society isn’t helpful. I look at it from the geological perspective. We’ve had extreme events in the past like we’re in now, but this is worse. Maybe not as bad as the really bad day for the dinosaurs, but there weren’t people there at those times. We’re here now. We’re seeing it. To me, I wish I weren’t the age I am because I just want to see it to understand the planet’s response. Holy crap! We’re actually causing an extreme climate event ourselves. We’re going to have to do things about it. It’s happening. We already have enough CO2, it’s happening. The planet heating up like a furnace, drought, an inability to grow grain in many parts of the world, starvation, diseases stored in Arctic ice that will be released, economic collapse, war due to climate change — where do we even begin this conversation?
Ian Clark, CFP 250-405-2928 iandavidclark.ca
Joseph Alkana, CIM, FCSI 250-405-2960 josephalkana.com
Steve Bokor, CFA 250-405-2930 stevebokor.com
I think we have to look regionally. What’s happening to us here and what shall we do about it? First, we just have to stop [creating] CO2. That’s just simple, and we have to do that ... the soft cost associated with renewables is dropping like a rock, and internationally, there has been success in getting rid of the dominant fossil-fuel subsidies. So those two together are converging in a positive direction. Maybe it’s not fast enough, but you know how things can take off — I’m optimistic about that.
“We’re pretty unique. We’re highly reliable. We put sensors in the hardest place on the planet and they work 24-7.” Do the oceans hold some key to survival?
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The paleoclimate records from the ocean [hold the key]. This event scientists call the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, I usually call The Big Heat. It’s an extreme event that happened about 55 million years ago and there was a huge amount of CO2 released … so we know the rate at which it was released, we know the temperature increases, we know there was mass extinction in the ocean, and we know that it took about 100,000 years for the climate to get back on the track it had been on before. That’s what we’re in right now. It’s something like that. So when people say there’s going to be a ‘new normal,’ I’m just so sick of that. There is no normal. What about ocean acidification?
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That’s a big issue. During The Big Heat, there was mass extinction in the ocean. I think we’ve