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kleinbl00  ·  4145 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: World Bank report on a +4°C future

The issue with dry, technical PDFs from the World Bank is that they tend to be read by people who will click on dry, technical PDFs from the World Bank. More populist literature with the exact same message has been available for years; I'm fond of Bill McKibben's "Eaarth"

(http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=bil...)

And Paul Gilding's "The Great Disruption"

(http://www.amazon.com/Great-Disruption-Climate-Crisis-Shoppi...)

Looks like Paul has a movie I haven't seen. Gonna have to check it out.

Even then, those will only convince the true believers further because it's such an intellectually divisive issue. Perhaps the most compelling argument I've ever seen for use with global warming denial is a simple search on Google for "reinsurance global warming" (although one might have to look up "reinsurance" first as nobody has ever dealt with Munich Re). Simply put, the guys who insure the insurance companies have been basing their underwriting on the reality of unchecked climate change for the better part of a decade now. The buck ultimately stops with them and they're hunkering down for Sandy and beyond. Climate change isn't a political issue for them, it's a factor in their bottom line.