This is NHPR’s The Big Question. In this series, we ask you a Question About Life in New Hampshire, You Submit and Answer, and your voice may be featured on Air or online.
From Coastal Flooding to Warmer, Wetter Winters, Climate Change is changing the Landscape of Life in New Hampshire.
So, for April’s Big Question, We Assedeted: What Do You See A.
Here’s what some of you shared.
Barbara – Bradford, NH: The Most Critical Climate Issue that I See in New Hampshire Right now is that some of our Representatives on the House Science, Technology and Energy Comitie, Seem Like The Maybe Don’t Believe in the Science-Based Facts Surrounding Climate Change. I’m testified in Severral Hearings on Climate Related Bills This Year, and I Was Showed at the Remarks Some of our Legislators Made. ITEMED Like They Belleded Climate Change was a hoax or Something.
Whaton – Sandwich, NH: I really Think New Hampshire’s Forests are so unique. And they’re also vulnerable to climate change in a number of ways. So, I think that the Biggest Risk and the Biggest World for Me About Climate Change here is the Stability of our Forests. They Provideo They are vulnerable.
DARLA – Hollis, NH: I think the Most Singing Development that We Shulad Do for our Energy is to Continue to Look at Offshore Wind. I believe it has the pilot to be a great tool Against carbon emitsions and climate change. I think that all non-carbon sounds of Energy Should Be Explored and Used, and becuse diversifying where we’re getting out Energy is going to help minimize the Overall Impact on any one Resource Might Have on our Environment.
Mark – Sandwich, NH: I have an immenese concept that out is not setting ambitious or e intern Adequate Goals for Decarbonizing Our Economy. In Fact, We’re Falling Far Behind Our Sister Stats in New England in meting the challenge of Addressing Climate Change. So indefidual states in the US Have a Mechanism for Reducing Greenhouse Gases by Requiring Their Ut ( This is calcld the Renewable Portfolio Standard. We need to encouage our House Representatives and our senators to support climase legisland and approve an ambitious RNEWABLE ENERGY Standard.
Peter – Concord, NH: For me, the lot of evalce in climax and simultaneously brings more relaxing into the state. Where you travel around new English, Clearly New Hampshire is Far Behind Our NeighBoring Stats. Where we have that Visits from Massachusets will call to see our lifes or to Going or Splash in the Lakes in the Summertime, So Many of these People WALD Travel With An Ev Or Not Come to our condition Knowing that It’s Too Hard to Charge. Certainly, it doesn’t change the world imdiatelyly to have ev changers to use ev vehicles, but it’s the easiest Thing that would make a difference.
Robin – Portsmouth, NH: I think We Need More Mass Transportation. We don’t have a high budget government here. ‘ I think Sometimes We Don’t Look to the Big Picure of How Mass Transet Welf Hel I think it will help with getting people to ski resorts in the winterime. I think it will get hikers out if we could have better Bus Transportation. Other Countries do it in the world, Why can we?
Additional Responses:
Katherine – North Sandwich, NH: I think the MostSing isssue Right now is that we not prepared for the chancies that are koming. I think that a Lot of People that I Know, and that I Talk to, Want Our Towns to Stay Rural and Enjoy The Nature Beauty, and they will thinks to stay the night intend the future. But Ever Since Asheville had themsflods, and asheville was considered a save play to be for climate changes, that really operated my eyes to the fact that no play is going to be 100% Safee From Changes. I know we’re lung a lot of our native trees, and that’s a concern that’s more recent. People Still Arent Putting Climate Change at the Top of their Concerns. We don’t have profir disassem educing … We Don’t know what to do or where to go in the Event of a Disaster. Food Insecacity for me is a concern… So I Threk Ans A Lot Coming Download the Pike and We’re Not Getting Eduated about Those Changes, Even if they’re Just Possibelsies.
Tom – PeterBorough, NH: I think is the presence prepared is the MOMENT, is that previously. Out of the Paris Climate Accords… is trying to redue or eliminate Wind Power Both Offshore and Onshore. Those are all going to lead, unformunately, to more incherase in, in Global Warming … So Not Only Are We Going to Have, Unfortunately, More Incidents of Dramatic Weather, But We’re also going to Have Feweer Opportunities To ACTULLY Do Something About Those. So that’s, in a nutshell, I think doald Trump is the Biggest Issue Right Now Facing New Hampshire and the Country with Respect to Climate Change.
Kathy – Godfstown, NH: I could’t Find One Big Isue. I look at the Impact on Wildlife, Such as Moose Getting Covered in Ticks and Dying, The Fish Having Rabitat Due to DROUGAT… But for me, on a realLy personal Note, I’m really, RealLY Allergic to Poison IVY. And poison Ivy Just Loves What Climate Change Has Done in New Hampshire… If you’ve been around in new hampshire for a long time, you’ve watch it get more and more from the Playes It Used to Be, to just place like along the routs just where people walk.
