I own a property on the water and for obvious reasons have looked seriously at the issue and the potential consequence on home values.
I started with all the skeptics websites, articles, claims. This is a must read for anyone interested in the subject as nothing in their claims has any substance to it at all. It's all designed to convince an uneducated crowd who does nt want to spend more than 3 mins on the subject. Typical examples will be to take last 10 years of data, choose the highest historic point of data 10 years ago as a starting point and then on of the most recent cold point and show a 'downward' trend.
Climate change is happening. Its happening faster than what people anticipate and the consequences are in most likelihood far worst than most people imagine. Think of the equivalent of a global nuclear war. Its just barely not as bad. The consequences are existing already too...How active would boko haram be without the sahel moving Southwest so quickly? How different would the Syrian civil war be without 95% of the Syrian farmland destroyed in the 5 years leading to the revolution.
The truth is I dint buy the authoritarian shift or that trump is a danger to democracy, etc..but I have no doubt that the climate choices of the Trump administration are going to be an absolute disaster. Probably ones that will put us to the point of no return, where positive feedback loops will just be too strong.
And the saddest thing is that most of the GOP knows this. Newt, Romney, etc..all used to speak vocally against climate change...but obviously short term conflicts of interests are biasing their views now.
And so yes I think one day there could be an extraordinary payback, one day there might be a 'nuremberg' of climate deniers (I'm not including genuine scientific skeptics)......and this will most probably happen in our lifetime and clearly in the lifetime of our children.
I can only pray I am wrong...
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