Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Stop. Your hysterics are scaring Alma.

He wants his tank full of gas on a Friday night, a little cash in his pocket, Wolfman Jack on his radio and you to stop talking about this.

 

The economics of climate change policy is likely to hit middle class families a lot harder than climate change will. But perhaps everyone here is squared away financially. Or perhaps we’re like farmers in Kansas, voting against our economic interests for moral reasons.

 

You can't possibly believe that. Climate change, which is blossoming much faster than predicted, is going to make parts of the world uninhabitable, most likely in my child's lifetime. The water wars are coming.

 

The economics of the policy? I mean why don’t you look at the economics of climate change. Jesus. Try getting fire insurance in California. Try living on the coast in Florida. Or living at all in Arizona. Maldives. But yes, the problem is the policies.

 

How Kansas could lose billions in land values as its underground water runs dry

 

https://www.kansasforests.org/resources/resources_docs/climate-change-ks 2016.pdf

 

K-State experts outline climate change effects on Kansas, tips to reduce impact

 

Not enough water: How climate change has affected Kansas

 

Yahp. I guess we’ll see if all the water runs out in Kansas.

You already know I’m a skeptic as to the extent. Not the existence - but the extent. And a skeptic as to the answer, since I think consumption of energy is a far bigger issue than production.

An ominous super storm presentation - with the NYT running what seems almost like a movie trailer - isn’t alarmism at all. It’s sobriety. So I suppose everyone should get right on moving from CA.

 

It’s not going to get any cheaper to live most of those places. (Well, you know more than I about the Maldives.) And I’d expect it’ll get more expensive with new energy policies.

But perhaps not. Perhaps the solution we need is precisely the solution presented to us by the solution people. Rare is the circumstance where our morals, survival and financial well-being line up so perfectly, but perhaps this is science’s version of the prosperity gospel.