I doubt more than a handful of people have ever read the full 6000 pages of technical reports and spreadsheets detailing what is known about climate change, I certainly haven't.  I haven't even read the 40 page summary of the summary, as is probably true amongst most politicians who vote on climate policy and even most reporters who write on climate topics.  However, you don't need to have read it to know that a political document like that is completely meaningless, because nobody is going to pay attention to it when formulating policy that will actually be implemented and enforced.  The only thing anybody in a position of power cares about is whether the policy is economically and politically feasible to pursue.

The problem is that there IS no policy that can feasibly be followed that would actually make a significant difference in the trajectory of climate change.  As Diners know, Money is just a proxy for Energy consumption, and there is no way to reduce energy consumption without either lowering the standard of living or significantly decreasing the population.  People generally don't willingly choose to live poorer, with the exception of a few monks and luddites.  Population doesn't begin to decrease until it is no longer economically feasible for it to increase, which is happening now but not at a rate fast enough to put the brakes on overall energy consumption, or even slow it down all that much.

The Magic Bullet of Cheap, Clean & Renewable Energy doesn't exist now  and probably never will for Thermodynamic reasons, but it is a politically sellable idea the typical technophile pins their hopium filled brains on, particularly when fed a steady stream of Marvel Comics SciFi that uses all sorts of magic devices that violate all the laws of physics to make characters like X-Men Mutants and Avengers wild & crazy galactic adventures seem possible to the couch potatoes stuffing cheese doodles into their mouths with one hand, a VR headset on their heads and the other hand on the joystick, keyboard or trackball of the latestgaming computer.  The average homo sap believes all this stuff is possible just as prior generations bought the idea Jesus could walk on water or Moses parted the Red Sea.  Hucksters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos capitalize on this nonsense and waste further resources sending the filthy rich on space vacations to nowhere.

For the few of us not brainwashed by all this nonsense, we can just sit back and enjoy the show while we wait for the next shoe to drop on the road to the collapse of industrial civilization.

RE