Our history of exploring new territories and unfamiliar climates may have acted upon genes that allow us to tolerate more extreme heat or cold than our ancestors.
Ideally, forest managers can source this information from climate analogs within their jurisdictions, but the emergence of unfamiliar climates is a distinct possibility with particular challenges.
However, the idea of solar geoengineering also sparked deeper discussions about northern or Arctic ways of living in the Anthropocene: how to coexist with loss and unfamiliar climates, relocalization and new rural livelihoods in the north, and dematerialization of northern economies.
Of the five stressor domains identified by factor analysis (i.e., Homesickness, Cultural Difference, Social Isolation, Academics, and Unfamiliar Climate), Academic challenges posed the greatest difficulty.
The stressors appeared most intense early on, and declined significantly either from the Fall to Spring semesters in the first academic year (Academics and Unfamiliar Climate) or from the Spring of the first academic year to the Fall of the second academic year (Homesickness, Cultural Difference, and Social Isolation).
In short, you would have to adapt to an unfamiliar climate.
Given the latitude, long periods of constant darkness or constant sunlight create climates unfamiliar to human beings in much of the rest of the world.
There is new food, a different climate, unfamiliar architecture.
Immigrants, dreaming of a new Eden but encountering instead the realities of unpredictable native peoples, a fierce climate, unfamiliar wildlife, and physical and cultural deprivation, were the subject of prose sketches by the Strickland sisters, Susanna Strickland Moodie and Catherine Parr Strickland Traill.
The growing number of pilgrims to the Holy Land and the necessity of care of their numerous sick, who had fallen victim to the unfamiliar conditions of climate and life, led to knightly hospital orders, the most important of which was the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (later called the Knights of Malta), founded in the 11th century.
McKibben responded with a deeply researched jeremiad, in which he set out to popularize the alarming and still largely unfamiliar facts about climate change and to sharpen awareness of what they implied for the future of the planet and humankind: Changes in our world which can affect us can happen in our lifetime not just changes like wars but bigger and more sweeping events.
