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Adapting to a Changing Climate in Saskatchewan
The video above features Executive Director Dave Sauchyn speaking about climate adaption with the Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds. To learn more, please visit: saskwatersheds.ca
Speaking to The Standing Committee on Transport and Communications (TRCM)
Click on the image above to be taken to the video of Dr. Sauchyn speaking on the impact of climate change, climatic variability, and extreme weather events on transportation and communication at the TRCM meeting on October 31, 2023.
The Globe and Mail:
"The Prairies should prepare for more summers like this one"
"This might be an exceptional year. But a long history of drought cycles in this dry region, combined with a warming planet, means the Prairies should be prepared to adapt to more summers like this one."
“You can argue that we’re quite adaptable, otherwise we wouldn’t have succeeded in populating this part of the world,” Dr. Sauchyn said. “Otherwise, we wouldn’t still be here.”
KELLY CRYDERMAN
PUBLISHED AUGUST 26, 2023
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- more climate change denial in Saskatchewan producers than in other Canadian samples
- individual characteristics were associated with less acceptance and concern of climate change
- Viewing the video above increased climate change perception in the experimental group and protected against a history effect that decreased climate knowledge in the control
- More trust in science predicted greater change in climate change perception following the video
From the article:
“This tendency to perceive floods, storms, and drought as ‘unprecedented’ is common. After all, it is human nature to view extreme conditions as out of the norm, given that our general frame of reference – such as a human lifespan – is relatively short.
The tree rings capture natural climatic variability before the world’s climate was significantly modified by human activity.”
– Dave Sauchyn
From the article:
“This whiplash is the kind of condition that we expect in a warmer climate,” he says. “Now, I’m not saying that the drought of last summer and the flooding of the spring is caused by climate change — these are perfectly natural conditions. But there’s pretty good science to suggest that the severity of the drought and the severity of the flooding is, to some extent, increased as a result of a warmer climate.”
– Dave Sauchyn