You don’t need the UN to transfer your wealth to other countries, like say China, your American CEOs and the politicians they’ve bought are doing a fantastic job of doing that themselves. Moreover, the vast majority of wealth isn’t being transfered to other countries, but to wealthier people in your own country who are fascist, greedy, and very happy to ignore the misery they cause you. If you’re so angry about this I suggest you get a clearer idea of what is really going on. Read some Matt Taibbi, see Moneymasters, and start writing letters to people who matter: the media and politicians.

To the rest, you can’t “adapt” to climate change, it’s like “adapting” to being dumped on another planet naked and alone. When the ocean currents stop, bees go extinct, arctic methane is released, sea levels rise and so on and so forth, man’s ability to cultivate nutrients will practically disappear. What is needed is a sense of purpose and urgency in developing a lower-energy intensive economy (perhaps one in which isn’t nearly entirely dependent on consuming instantly disposable goods on a massive scale?) and renewable energy sources. Large solar installations could power the planet, carbon free.

….and meanwhile ignore the UN’s efforts to transfer our wealth to miserable ignorant greedy fascist countries…….

Yes, of course. And it is precisely this aspect of global warming which neither side is paying much attention to. On the one hand we have the deniers, who refuse to accept clear scientific evidence that global warming is real. On other we have the hysterics, who insist that we drop everything and concentrate all our resources on turning back the global warming clock, which will never happen. What is needed is neither denial nor panic, but a sober effort to monitor the situation and adapt.

If we have learned to live with earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, famines, floods, etc., then we can, and must, learn to live with the effects of global warming.

And the first necessary step for this is to recognize that there is a problem with which we must learn to live.

If we have learned to live with earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, famines, floods, etc., then we can, and must, learn to live with the effects of global warming. The good news is that, as this article suggests, global warming will have positive as well as negative effects. Not only the postponement of the next ice age, which ain’t so bad, but also the opening of vast regions of the north, in Canada, Alaska, Russia, Greenland, etc., to agriculture and other forms of development. As for me, I’m looking forward to more mild winters like this one. In fact, the milder the winters get, the less fossil fuels will be burned, which suggests that global warming may, at least to some extent, be self-limiting.

I don’t think glaciers covering half of North America would be a walk in the park, either.