Mann the Lifeboats!

I feel that even the opinion of a 'top US Climate Change scientist' is unlikely to alter the behaviour of sufficient numbers of people in the global warming debate (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/27/extreme-global-weather-climate-change-michael-mann). Professor Michael Mann has opined that the current spate of extreme weather events over much of the globe are the 'face' of climate change (a new modelling study suggests that human contributions to the concentration of 'greenhouse gases' in the atmosphere make events, such as the recent heat wave in the UK, twice as likely). The trouble is that there are vested interests (coal and hydrocarbon extractors and pension fund managers) and people earning a living (miners and oil-workers) who will resist such a message (along with a general human desire by most to 'want it all'). In addition, politicians, generally seem incapable of considering anything 'economic' in anything more than the shortest of short-terms (so they don't want to do anything that would make them unpopular). The prognosis is not good even when we are 'having our noses rubbed in it'.