the problem and will fight it. How many jobs hinge on the burning of dead dinosaurs? That will be a big issue.

I guess we're lucky so far here in the Northeast. It's hot out there, but I haven't heard of anyone being burned - yet.

doesn't hear it, or much else. Or doesn't even care.

The more I hear about the current dangers caused by climate change, the more I regret that we didn't have a second Jimmy Carter term followed by two terms of President Gore - who was likely the actual winner if they hadn't stopped counting the votes. Our history on so many levels would have been much different.

I've never gotten over it.

Back in the 90s when the real serious discussions of the impact of rising CO2 levels due to fossil fuel burning were occurring the media never seemed to get the existential fight going on between 2 behemoths of industry. The fossil fuel companies who had trillions of dollars in assets vs. the insurance industry who would inevitably be impacted by changing climate and the inability to use stable climate data to project future insurance liabilities. We all know who won that battle.

The failure of the M$M to ever get beyond "is it getting hotter?" completely ignored the economic implications of our decision to basically do very little to alleviate our fossil fuel burning addiction. In some part I guess it's a failure of humans to let go of the world we know because it's entrenched in our being (fossil fuel extraction, production and sales related employment) versus imagining (and implementing) fields that do not exist (solar and other renewable economies) but for in the far future.