According to a climate FAQ coal burning accounts for 42% of manmade CO2. Interestingly countries like the UK with managed populations are able to retire coal plant but populous south Asia is building new coal burners. Mercenary Australia supplies the coal while saying not our problem.

I think we've tested our adaptation abilities with less than 1C warming. That's fires, flooding, water supply, crop failure and storm surges. We should accept some pain to reduce emissions which in effect is what coronavirus is doing as we speak. Future generations will thank us for it.

really puzzles me how so many have been so dumbed down to think that burning coal changes the temperature of the planet. I can understand the many who have made millions or even billions from the renewables scam that has given us masses rises in electricity prices and unreliable energy pushing the doctrine. Well I suppose when advice is taken from privileged 16 year old spoilt brats you probably have the answer. So many now have woken up to the scam. You really would think any honest scientist would invest their lives improving humanity not pushing this garbage.

pushing this garbage.
runner,
Pollution is the real problem borne of that other problem overpopulation ! Since most humans didn't take any notice, COVID-19 & its off-siders will do the job over the years to come !

Taswegian, " Your Dreamin" again, just like theis CCC Author!

Author...Hmmmm...stop frightening the children...

"But climate activists should not despair if they are confronted with the true size and global complexity of the problem. Demands for climate action need not fall short of calling for climate resilience to be given a higher priority in activists' countries of residence. To the extent that this results in better town and country planning, hazard preparedness, and protection of natural ecosystems within national borders it will surely be a lot better than no action at all."......that's says it all, so why did you write three pages?

Im a fan of 'Occam's Razor' approach to writing, suggest you try the same and save the planet by using less paper and internet electricity on long articles. While I appreciate alternate views, those veggie treats and tea, might have increased your carbon footprint....Methane?

This smacks of attention a deficit disorder, just like Grimacy-Greta and your own FlIm-Flam-Tim Flannery CCC poster boy!

Maybe? But many economies including ours are welded to fossil fuels and their export! And due to idiotic idealogy, unable to change, least the robber barons take a hiss fit? And cancel all the current arrangements they would seem to have with the political class/decision-makers?

Otherwise, we could start to transition and nationalise what we must, in our own national interest!

We couldn't afford the trillion we needed to expend to get it done, but when threatened with a virus that may have a 20% kill rate? Were out of the starting blocks like an Olympic sprinter with billions, billions our grandkids will be paying interest on!

And leave the country and the nation a virtual banana republic? For our official intransigence! As we wait for our pollies finish and convert us to the southernmost state of the people's republic of China?

And what would that matter if by then we have already crossed a point of no return tipping point!?

The coal-fired lobby will see finally what they have wrought and demand to know, why didn't somebody warn us, or provide a viable solution with at least as much alacrity and no expense spared as if we were confronting a killer pandemic?

Because folks, the outcome of unmitigated climate change will be 3 times more catastrophic! I hate being the bar steward who told you so, but if you look at OLO archives, you'll see where I predicted that the covid-19 was a pandemic going somewhere to happen as others were saying, don't worry, she'll be right. And then predicted it would hit the USA far harder than anywhere else!

Why? Because of the folks in charge and making incomprehensible decisions?

And vowing to continue with more of the same, to protect money and privilege! Worked well on the Titanic, didn't it?

When we cross the tipping point and we will inside a short-short decade, if nothing changes? Those with the deepest pockets can book passage, one way to Mars, maybe? TBC.
Alan B.

Melvin Bolton,

The projections of global warming are irrelevant. What is relevant is the impacts of global warming.

Two recent papers indicate that global warming and increased CO2 concentrations are likely to be beneficial, not harmful, for the global economy. These are based on studies of empirical data.

Lang, P.A.; Gregory, K.B. Economic impact of energy consumption change caused by global warming. Energies 2019, 12, 3575. https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/18/3575
http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/18/3575

Dayaratna, K.D.; McKitrick, R.; Michaels, P.J. Climate sensitivity, agricultural productivity and the social cost of carbon in FUND. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-020-00263-w
http://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-020-00263-w