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Climate Change: How to Invest for the Possibility

To argue that the earth has been cooling over the last 500 million years or so is irrelevant. What counts more is the trend over the last 15,000 years (warming), and whether that trend is "natural," as the climate warming skeptics would have us believe, or manmade.

There is no longer any scientific basis to argue that recent warming trends have no relationship to increased burning of carbon, particularly from coal and oil. Meanwhile, those who spend a lot of time trying to minimize the problem are the last to advocate doing anything. Better conservation practices, particularly in home insulation and design of communities to minimize the use of cars to get around would do more in the next 10 years to reduce CO2 than any other policy. The coal burning advocates should get their act together and promote conservation instead of trying to argue that nothing should be done to interfere with smoky coal plants.