All this heat...

[hatrack]

91. There's a point at which I'll believe the powers that be are taking this seriously . . . .

That'll be when General Motors starts an ad campaign telling prospective customers "Whatever You Do, Don't Buy Our Cars. Don't Buy ANY Cars."

Or when Delta or United or Carnival start giving customers points or cash back for canceling flights or cruises or vacation packages.

The last time corporate America did anything even remotely close to that was in 1982 when some psychotic asshole poisoned Tylenol with cyanide and seven people died.

But until we start to discard a whole lot of fundamental assumptions about permanent growth (or better yet, "sustainable growth" ) or "having it all" or how economies are "supposed" to work, nothing is going to get any better.

With a boost from El Nino, we're already at 1.5C above historic temperature averages this year. Anybody ready for 2.0, or 2.5?