Jeff Stahler for January 27, 2013

Lets assume for a moment that all these claims about global warming are correct and the world is going to melt like a Popsicle on a hot day. What are the financial costs expected and how is it supposed to get paid for?

Luckily Barry is doing a good job with the equality part since the middle class is now near poverty.

First: AGW and climate change is very real, and nobodies saying the planet is “melting like a popsicle”. From the economic standpoint, what the science is warning is that doing nothing now, will see a “down the road” increased cost many, many, times greater! Of course, that many species, including food species, terrestrial and aquatic (plant and animal) will be lost as a result of climate change, the cost in human life WILL be great, but that’s only posterity some 100 years down the road, so who the “f” cares? Right?

Tell that to the people who get killed in Hurricanes every year…… or lightning storms….. or tornadoes…...….and if you were a real charter boat captain, you’d know about Waterspouts.

Interesting dialog. Of course there are costs other than economic. The costs are social, cultural and physical just to name a few. What I was “fishing” for were solutions proposed, not a justification of the condition. I probably could have written the question better. I’m a believer we’ve done a job already damaging the environment and now the Chinese and the Indians seemed determined to finish it off.

I have always contended that China will probably overtake us as the #1 economy in the world and they already have the population balance. Economically it is questionable to me if they will survive their growth with the level of pollution they are creating. For the last several days the government has advised the very young and old to stay indoors because pollution in Beijing has hit dangerous levels. Of course Salt Lake City has the same problem with a cold air inversion trapping smog in the valley. Oh well…