There's something remarkable happening this week in the climatesphere. People who routinely thunder that we are on the verge of climate doom have mostly shrugged at the lackluster outcome of the recent climate summit in South Africa. I'm wondering if they've self-medicated themselves with sedatives. Consider that, last week Grist's David Roberts wrote (his emphasis):
If there is to be any hope of avoiding civilization-threatening climate disruption, the U.S. and other nations must act immediately and aggressively on an unprecedented scale. That means moving to emergency footing. War footing.
Yesterday, a more muted Roberts was waxing on about the importance of "symbolism" while chiding greens for holding to the "illusion that an international treaty could compel national decision makers to cut emissions faster their their domestic populations are willing." So I'm curious to hear what mechanism he believes will compel the world to get on that "war footing." Because I'm ...
