Janet Hutley teaches AP Chemistry on the main campus.
Janet Hutley
Do you believe in climate change? Why?
“You can’t talk about one without the other because the big power plant sends energy to your home. So is that your use or their use? If you want a phone a factory has to build the phone, the factory uses energy, you use the phone. Is that your use, or the people who built the phone?”
Do you think the fires in California or recent floods in Houston have been because of climate change?
“If you’re going to tag disasters on climate change you’re going to have to make an argument more for warmer water means bigger tropical storms because they can feed off the warm water.”
Adam Hovde
Do you believe in climate change? Why?
“Yes 100 percent… With how the fossilized carbon cycle is being pulled back into the active carbon cycle, there’s going to be an impact. There’s nowhere for that carbon to go and it’s changing the temperature of the ocean and the temperature of the atmosphere and all that.
Do you think climate change is more due to citizens, big companies or farmers?
All of the above. Twelve thousand years ago we made the decision to instead of using what the earth gives us to live on we just decided we weren’t going to do that anymore. From that point we have been making the change to where we are, the dominant species, and this is what’s going to happen. Every change that we make might be great for us but it probably won’t be great for everything else on the planet. Every one of those little changes has basically led up to where we are today to where we need this energy.