by Pavel Podolyak

Created on: April 27, 2009

How the Western World Can Make a Killing on Global Warming

A silly governor of Texas has recently mentioned people getting used to "government oppression" like a frog in a slowly heated pot of water does. The frog you see, does not feel the rising of the temperature until it's dead. New Yorkers can relate. No, not to the supposed approaching fascism/marxism of Obama's administration, but to their winters and springs becoming a thing of the past. As recently as the 1990s we remember there being a few weeks of spring. By spring we don't mean intense 70-80 degree heat appearing all of a sudden (or 90 degrees today April 26 the year of our lord 2009) after hovering at light jacket weather. No, by spring we mean comfortable pleasant room temperature type environment that used to exist in New York City for weeks at a time. "Weeks?!" you say? Indeed it was common that more than a month of wonderful room temperature would happen every year. It was also common that snow and horrible frigid cold could actually stretch out over a period of 3 months. NYC, being right by the ocean, is used to extremes swings in weather but the only extreme we seem to be retaining and expanding upon is summer. Summer now arrives earlier and arrives more intensely. Fall sees more of those wonderful room temperature days than Spring. Since it's gradual, we don't notice. Even if we really did, then people a few hundred miles away from us would not be able to relate. They too, are seeing strange non-traditional changes in weather patterns but morphed by their geography. We laugh at the sudden heat, grumble about the rains from increasingly violent clashes in the skies, and shrug off less snow with slight relief or disappointment. What we really should be feeling is a bit of fear that the concept of seasons we grew up with is now different.

The international consensus on speed of global warming is emerging and major planetary changes are coming to us sooner than expected. Within 20 years we'll see changes creating hundreds of billions dollars worth of disturbances in the global economy. Each region is experiencing different manifestation of climate change. Thus, the whole world is becoming like the story of 3 blind men and the elephant who desperately need to direct the elephant away from smashing up their village. The benefits of making the elephant work for us are enormous and should fill the leading governments of the world with excitement. It's far too late to consider preventive measures,

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