OPINION: Climate change is happening. What matters is how we respond.

Updated: December 5, 2023Plumes rise into minus 40 degree air from UAF's Ben Atkinson Building, which houses the university's heating and power plant on January 9, 2020.

In preparing to write this, I spoke with a few Alaskans to get their takes on climate change. I had the pleasure recently of sitting next to a Koyukon Athabascan author on a flight into Fairbanks. She didn’t say if she agreed or disagreed with particular positions on climate change, but she did describe the changes in the seasons over the years and their impact on her village’s ability to subsist. She said the rivers freeze much later, and there is a change in fish and moose availability.

In May 2022, the governor of Alaska signed Senate Bill 177 into law. This law supports the permitting and use of microreactors. This is just one of several “green energy” bills pushed by a Republican governor. Innovating how we obtain clean, reliable and affordable energy must be a nonpartisan topic. Oil and natural gas have supplied the Alaska economy, and coal, wood and heating oil are routinely used energy sources in the Interior where I live.

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