Krugman is excited about global warming today

Temperature increases on the scale predicted by the M.I.T. researchers and others would create huge disruptions in our lives and our economy. As a recent authoritative U.S. government report points out, by the end of this century New Hampshire may well have the climate of North Carolina today, Illinois may have the climate of East Texas, and across the country extreme, deadly heat waves — the kind that traditionally occur only once in a generation — may become annual or biannual events.

In other words, we’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself. How can anyone justify failing to act?

-- Paul Krugman for The New York Times

It feels like we are living in that kind of heat wave now. I've never seen centigrade temperatures before that lasted for weeks straight.

I take it that the other side says that even if the dramatic climate change is happening, it is mostly a natural process, and it makes no sense to make big sacrifices when it won't have much ameliorative effect, even if you could get countries like China to cooperate, which we can't.

In other words, we're fucked, and we should just enjoy life while we can. The world is going to end in 2012 anyway, right?

Krugman is excited about global warming today

Temperature increases on the scale predicted by the M.I.T. researchers and others would create huge disruptions in our lives and our economy. As a recent authoritative U.S. government report points out, by the end of this century New Hampshire may well have the climate of North Carolina today, Illinois may have the climate of East Texas, and across the country extreme, deadly heat waves — the kind that traditionally occur only once in a generation — may become annual or biannual events.

In other words, we’re facing a clear and present danger to our way of life, perhaps even to civilization itself. How can anyone justify failing to act?

-- Paul Krugman for The New York Times

It feels like we are living in that kind of heat wave now. I've never seen centigrade temperatures before that lasted for weeks straight.

I take it that the other side says that even if the dramatic climate change is happening, it is mostly a natural process, and it makes no sense to make big sacrifices when it won't have much ameliorative effect, even if you could get countries like China to cooperate, which we can't.

In other words, we're fucked, and we should just enjoy life while we can. The world is going to end in 2012 anyway, right?