The irate Emperor might retaliate by firing up the Nitron Ray he used to inflict climate change on the FDR administration.

Sorry my post is a bit garbled, it was meant to run on with something like “…should be forced to take responsibility for their waste products.”.

So called ‘skeptics’ wanted to see observational evidence before doing anything, well here it is. We can put down the extra economic damage done so far as a cost of following their policy path. That cost is being accounted for in actuary tables and has been inflating insurance premiums and grain prices since the turn of the century.

The time has long past since we need more evidence to justify modernizing our global energy infrastructure. The few powerful Luddites hanging on to their FF’s business model.

The energy ‘market’ is not a place it’s a set or rules governing trade (not the least of which is property law). Other than political will there is nothing stopping us from tweeking those rules in such a way that the Luddites either adapt their business model or or be eaten by their clean competitors.

Such tweeks have been made before, eg: the clean air act, the cap and trade treaty for Sulfur emissions instigated by Regan, and the removal of lead from petrol. Each time this sort of tweek happens the same small crowd of Luddites scream like stuck pigs, it’s time to ignore their wolf cries and let our engineers get on with it.

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Start stocking up now! On what, though, I’m not sure .

Interestingly, I’ve heard people from the Pacific Northwest and western Europe comment about how sudden and short the rainstorms in Massachusetts are, compared to the weather they’re used to, where it will sometimes drizzle and rain intermittently for days or even weeks. I guess Massachusetts is somewhere in between the climate of the UK or Washington state and that of the Midwest.

On the serious issue, though, it scares me how quickly the climate seems to be changing, with ice levels declining and extreme weather increasing noticeably over periods of just a few years, which is extremely rapid for worldwide changes. Between climate change and oil and other natural resources peaking and then becoming harder to find, the next century or two will not be easy ones for the human race. I hope we can figure out ways to make it through with human civilization intact.