Is the industrialized world doing a good enough job preparing for climate instability?
What do I think personally? No. I believe the industrialized world has the knowledge, the capacity and the motive to focus much greater attention on these issues, and we ought to. But that’s not a suggestion that came out of the scenario or our report. The U.N. just called for more aid to help the developing world predict severe storms, estimating that last year, 75,000 people died as a direct result of a weather disasters. Freak storms, tidal surges, sea level rises, Arctic trekkers finding open water at the North Pole — many of the kinds of things your scenario describes are already today’s headlines. What if anything does your work tell us about how to think about stories like these? You know, it’s hard to know where you are in the cycle. We tend to think, during a harsh winter or a heat wave that, see, global warming is here. But are we deep in climate change, or are these just aberrations? We just don’t really know where on the curve we stand. One of the things Day After Tomorrow
