{"id":16298,"date":"2019-11-20T15:29:48","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=16298"},"modified":"2023-06-08T18:27:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T18:27:21","slug":"climate-change-redsteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/20\/climate-change-redsteer","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to start adapting to climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/banner-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/banner-1.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/banner-1-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/banner-1-768x244.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/banner-1-600x191.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Douglas Esser <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too many discussions about climate change end in a conversation about reducing greenhouse gases, says Margaret Redsteer, an assistant professor in UW Bothell\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\">School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s not a bad conversation, but it\u2019s too late.&nbsp;\u201cThere\u2019s no real discussion about the fact that climate change is already here,\u201d she said. \u201cThe oceans already have absorbed a significant amount of heat. The polar ice caps are already melting. There already is extreme weather. There already are more heat waves, significant floods and bigger hurricanes.&nbsp;\u201cWe have all these effects,\u201d she said, \u201cright now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Science responds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>How do we respond to the impacts of climate change? That\u2019s the discussion Redsteer encourages as a teacher, a researcher and member of the scientific community.&nbsp;She served on the advisory board for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/howwerespond.aaas.org\/about\/\">American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) \u201cHow We Respond\u201d&nbsp;<\/a>initiative. Published in September, the initiative\u2019s report links to resources and 18 multimedia stories that serve as examples of how communities respond to climate change.&nbsp;\u201cHow We Respond\u201d follows the AAAS 2014 report \u201cWhat We Know\u201d that presented evidence of human-caused climate change.&nbsp;The AAAS is the world\u2019s largest body of scientists, and it\u2019s holding its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/meetings.aaas.org\/\">annual meeting Feb. 13-16 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle<\/a>. Redsteer will lead a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaas.confex.com\/aaas\/2020\/meetingapp.cgi\/Session\/25404\">town hall discussion<\/a>&nbsp;on the \u201cHow We Respond\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tribes lead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the report\u2019s case studies is about the Yurok Tribe along the Klamath River in northern California. The tribe is trying to save a dwindling population of salmon that is critical to its culture. In response to warming water temperatures, erosion, drought and wildfires, the tribe entered a carbon cap-and-trade program and a dam-removal agreement. To make the land more resilient, the tribe also burns patches of forest to lessen the severity of wildfires.&nbsp;On the Washington coast, the Quinault Indian Nation has a plan to move the village of Taholah back from the Pacific beach where it is at risk of flooding.&nbsp;\u201cThe plan they have is forward-thinking,\u201d Redsteer said \u201cbecause they also look at how wetlands play a role in mitigating flood hazards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Policy matters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Quinault tribe is one of the case studies UW Bothell students consider in Redsteer\u2019s course Climate Change Adaptation Policy. New to campus, Redsteer first taught the class in spring 2019 and will offer it again next spring.&nbsp;\u201cThe students know a lot about climate change and about greenhouse gases,\u201d Redsteer said, \u201cbut they don\u2019t know about climate change adaptation, how to respond to and address the impacts of climate change.\u201d&nbsp;In discussing policy, the class also considers issues of environmental justice.&nbsp;\u201cWhen you don\u2019t have a policy, the people who have the means will find a way to adapt \u2014 and people who don\u2019t have the means will be left out to fend for themselves,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is externalizing the cost of climate change on people who can least afford it.&nbsp;\u201cThat\u2019s why we need to be thinking about the impact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research agenda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/margaret-redsteer-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Margaret Redsteer\" class=\"wp-image-26059\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Margaret Redsteer&nbsp;UW Bothell&nbsp;Redsteer joined the UW Bothell faculty in 2018, after 20 years as a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), focusing on indigenous communities in northern Arizona. In 2013 she received the Leadership Award from the Society of Native American Government Employees.&nbsp;Redsteer was the lead author on the 2014 National Climate Assessment chapter describing climate change issues relating to Native American communities. She also was first author of a chapter about Navajo tribal elders in the 2018 book \u201cIndigenous Knowledge for Climate Assessment &amp; Adaptation.\u201d&nbsp;She is still finishing up USGS research on sand dunes and climate change on the Navajo reservation, and she plans to examine climate-related hazards in the Pacific Northwest as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Issues and disasters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Redsteer has found that students are interested in her Climate Change Adaption Policy course and two other courses she teaches: Introduction to Environmental Issues, and Natural Hazards and Human Disasters.&nbsp;\u201cWe talk about earthquakes and volcanoes, and we also talk about droughts and flood and hurricanes and the sea level rise \u2014 all of the extreme events that are becoming more extreme with climate change,\u201d she said of the disasters course.&nbsp;The intro course includes more discussion of fossil fuels, recycling, deforestation and how agricultural systems are tied to environmental health.&nbsp;\u201cWhat\u2019s really great is I end up with a lot of media and communication students in my class,\u201d she said. \u201cI love taking advantage of that because one of the things we really need is better media and communication on these issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change maker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI want people to think about climate change adaption not just mitigation,\u201d said Redsteer. \u201cWe have to make sure we have policies in place that protect people.\u201d&nbsp;This is why she\u2019s involved in the \u201cHow We Respond\u201d initiative and why she teaches about climate change adaptation.&nbsp;\u201cWe really need to do more than think about greenhouse gases. We need to think about what we\u2019re going to do to remain safe in a changing climate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How we respond to the impacts of climate change is a discussion Margaret Redsteer encourages as a researcher and assistant professor in UW Bothell&rsquo;s School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202,229,200,214],"tags":[],"school":[419],"class_list":["post-16298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","category-faculty","category-profiles","category-research","school-school-of-ias"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":null,"link_2":null,"link_3":null,"link_4":null,"link_5":null},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":null,"button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s time to start adapting to climate change - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/20\/climate-change-redsteer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s time to start adapting to climate change - News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How we respond to the impacts of climate change is a discussion Margaret Redsteer encourages as a researcher and assistant professor in UW Bothell&rsquo;s School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; 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