Per Oren:
I still think this whole thing is a pyramid scheme, so money can be
redistributed.

That would suggest a cabal that doesn't seem possible in it's
complexity. I have a pretty dim view of human nature, but that includes
people's ability to cooperate.

Exxon or the Koche brothers, I can see: they're bonded together by a
mutual desire to maximize profits.

But virtually the entire world community of scientists? What do they
stand to gain? I'd think vanishingly-few of them have any significant
economic interest/investments in alternative energy ventures. I would
think they are just trying to get published and not have their
colleagues rip what they've published to shreds.

China and India are doing nothing.

From what I've read, China and India are both running scared. For
starters, they are both heavily dependent on snow melt from the
Himalayas (SP?) which is no longer coming in the volume they have come
to depend on.

I've seen or read (can't recall which) articles on India's efforts to
build catch basins to help mitigate the problem on their side.

China, of course, is kicking the world's ass on production of
photovoltaics and windmills.

Of course, China is also building coal-fired power plants
hand-over-fist... and one could think they don't give a rat's ass about
the climate or air quality.

But in big cities, there's actually a class thing now where people of
means can afford to have the air in their house extensively filtered and
to send their kids to school where the air is likewise processed.... So
I would think that somewhere in the power structure, they see a serious
problem and are trying to figure out what to do.
--
Pete Cresswell