<< …adaptation is the way to go >>

Yes Curmy. But not adaptation to climate change. The most important thing that we need to adapt to is the new energy regime that approaches as fossil fuels become progressively more expensive, which will greatly change economics from national to personal levels.

Surely you’ve got to agree that we need to prepare for the time when fossil fuels become considerably more expensive, so that we are ready to move away from our dependence on them and onto other energy sources as seamlessly as possible.

Fossil fuels can always be a part of our energy paradigm, for as long as the resource remains. It’s our utter dependence on them that we’ve got to be most concerned about.

Fossil fuels are only going to remain around for the next century or so if we wind the rate of consumption right down. And in order to do that we need to develop alternate energy sources. And maybe nuclear can be a part of that.

THIS is the imperative – to prepare for the changing energy paradigm. Preparing for the changing climate is surely a much lesser priority… especially when we just don’t know what the climate is really doing!