Planning for Your Survival from Global Warming

You have to be planning ahead.  You're going to have to make a choice, are the climate scientists right?  Or is Donald Trump right?  Seriously, you will have to decide whether it's happening or not.  The latest from experts is grim.

[The sea rise] would be enough to deluge Pacific and Indian Ocean island states and displace millions from Miami, Guangzhou, Mumbai and other low-lying cities. The total cost to the planet could top £11trillion.

Even then the seas will not stop rising, Jevrejeva added. “They will continue to climb for centuries even after greenhouse-gas levels have been stabilised. We could experience the highest-ever global sea-level rise in the history of human civilisation.”

So first step away from the ocean. 

Next will be to stay away from drought areas, like the American Midwest, or the Australian West. 

You can be like the Republicans and just accept what happens as it happens.  Or you can pay attention to what the scientists are saying and think about what you might do to prepare. 

Scientists warned more than 30 years ago that such a future lay ahead, but nothing was done to stave it off. Only dramatic measures are now left to those seeking to save our burning planet, and these can have grim political consequences.

But the most telling example is provided by the US, which has emitted about a third of the carbon responsible for global warming. Yet it has essentially done nothing to check its annual rises in output. Lobbying by the fossil fuel industry has proved highly effective at blocking political change – a point most recently demonstrated by groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Heartland Institute, which helped persuade President Trump to pull out of the Paris agreement, thus dashing the planet’s last hope of ecological salvation. “The coalition used its power to slow us down precisely at the moment when we needed to speed up,” said the environmentalist Bill McKibben in the New Yorker. “As a result, the particular politics of one country for one half-century will have changed the geological history of the Earth.”

So start planning.  In my opinion the place to be is the Pacific Northwest.  If we figure out how to store the water from the winter rains, we'll do okay without the yearly snowpack that feed our rivers with water.