This is why Sustainable Sailing is needed
From: Dr. Katharine Hayhoe@kathhayhoe@fediscience.org
Climate Scientist, Professor @ Texas Tech, Chief Scientist @ The Nature Conservancy, UN Champion of the Earth, author of Saving Us.
Climate change is loading the weather dice against us. A warmer climate means warmer oceans.
Think about it this way:
If you take a hair dryer to Europe and you plug it into the different current they have there, it will overheat and blow up on you.
We have always had hurricanes - but now they're plugged into a much greater source of energy than they used to have, so they are intensifying faster, getting stronger, and getting more and more dangerous.
Listen here: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/01/nx-s1-50252
This not only means we need ways of sailing that don't contribute to climate change, it also means that the current trends of less seaworthy boats that rely on long accurate weather forecasts and speed to appear will not last the next 50 years, unlike our 50 year old designs that had to cope with bad weather because there were no reliable forecasts.
