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{
"time": "2007-11-22 16:45:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Prof. Andrew Weaver",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"806197\" data-originallang=\"en\">Yes. John very eloquently put the two pieces together. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"806198\" data-originallang=\"en\">Adaptation is a necessary requirement. We have climate change in store as we try to adjust climate to the emissions we've already created. No matter what we do, we have climate in store. It will change the statistics of weather or climate down the road. We need to know how those changes will occur, and how they will impact us, and what we can do about it. That's adaptation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"806199\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Mitigation means saying we as a society have to stand up and ask what we deem to be acceptable. Do we deem it to be acceptable to take us past 2.1 degrees, or whatever it is that will be the point of no return, beyond which we've committed to Greenland melting, and we've committed ourselves to sea level rising seven metres, no matter what we do?' Do we believe that? Frankly, I don't. But mitigation comes in when you try to cut your emissions so you don't pass that. So you have to do them in parallel.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"806197\" data-originallang=\"en\">Oui. M. Stone a tr\u00e8s bien fait le rapprochement entre les deux.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"806198\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'adaptation est une n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 absolue. Un changement climatique se pr\u00e9pare pendant que nous tentons d'adapter le climat aux \u00e9missions que nous avons d\u00e9j\u00e0 produites. Peu importent les initiatives que nous prenons, un changement climatique se pr\u00e9pare. \u00c7a modifiera en d\u00e9finitive les statistiques m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques ou le climat. Il est essentiel de savoir comment ces changements se produiront, quel impact ils auront sur nous et ce que nous pouvons faire pour rem\u00e9dier \u00e0 la situation. C'est l'adaptation.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"806199\" data-originallang=\"en\">L'att\u00e9nuation signifie que la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 doit se demander ce qu'on veut consid\u00e9rer comme \u00e9tant acceptable. Faut-il consid\u00e9rer qu'un r\u00e9chauffement de plus de 2,1 degr\u00e9s, ou quelque chose comme \u00e7a, qui sera le point de non-retour, serait acceptable? C'est un niveau au-del\u00e0 duquel peu importent les mesures que nous prenons, la fonte du Groenland et une \u00e9l\u00e9vation de sept m\u00e8tres du niveau de la mer sont in\u00e9vitables. Le croyons-nous vraiment? Franchement, je ne le pense pas. L'att\u00e9nuation intervient lorsqu'on s'applique \u00e0 r\u00e9duire ses \u00e9missions, pour ne pas d\u00e9passer ce niveau. Il est par cons\u00e9quent essentiel que l'adaptation et l'att\u00e9nuation se fassent parall\u00e8lement.</p>"
},
"url": "/committees/environment/39-2/3/prof-andrew-weaver-22/",
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