Dr Hayhoe explains why climate finance matters to real people

Dr Katharine Hayhoe explains why climate
finance matters to real people.

We humans are used to the climate of the places where we live, regardless of how extreme they may be.

I witnessed this first-hand during my time in Churchill with Polar Bears International, just a few weeks before COP21. While we were there to track the bears, I found that locals were waiting just as impatiently for the water to freeze and snow to fall, so they could head out to their cabins and trap lines. For all who live in the Arctic, life begins in the winter. But this winter—as in so many winters, lately – the sea ice was late to come, and both bears and people remained trapped on land well into December.

Read The Union of Concerned Scientists story by Dr Katharine Hayhoe of the

Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University - “Why Climate Finance Matters to Real People.”