Global warming is posing a challenge for capitalism, one which it is unable to address unless alternative fuel sources become more lucarative than fossile.
Scientists are looking into the earths past to precisely map out what we can expect as the planet heats up.
(Huber said the stratocumulus tipping point helps explain the volatility that’s evident in the paleoclimate record. He thinks it might be one of many unknown instabilities in Earth’s climate. “Schneider and co-authors have cracked open Pandora’s box of potential climate surprises,” he said, adding that, as the mechanisms behind vanishing clouds become clear, “all of a sudden this enormous sensitivity that is apparent from past climates isn’t something that’s just in the past. It becomes a vision of the future.”)
Journalist Andew Coyne’s critique of the cost of the oil pipeline and carbon tax to the economy and the environment …
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-political-grandstanding-could-cost-us-both-a-pipeline-and-the-carbon-tax
Coyne speaks the the language of the pundit-political class, complementary fellow travellers. I am watching the flood reports knowing full well that the fires will re-ignite this summer. He is talking carbon tax and pipelines. Sure, he points to the feckless nature of the tax and the lunacy of the right in the face of it, but really, this is all so 10 years ago.
Then you read the comments. Whatever claims can be made about the ideological work done by the media and politicians, the ground it falls upon is a fertile place for the seeds to grow. Curmudgeons need something to be grumpy about and they use whatever it is they don’t get to go off on a tear.
Real change will happen when enough people consider the floods, fires, insurances rates, and spending on rebuilding and mitigation, and simply forget about the current crop of legislators, commentators and angry morons. It is coming, but with a lot more pain in the mix.