The survival of the human species is in serious question. There is no real chance that scientific consensus that the planet is warming because of man-made carbon dioxide pollution is wrong. It is a scientific fact. It is also now clear that efforts made all over the planet have been insufficient to reverse this warming or even slow it down.
What is not too late is to make the scientific and economic decisions on how the U.S. can continue to exist given the coming heat. What steps need to be made to ensure human survival?
What sense does it make to spend money for more oil pipelines when what is needed is a sharp reduction in such fuel? What may be needed are water pipelines. Why spend on dikes along the Caribbean to protect Texas oil refineries when industrial plants of all types may need to be moved inland? Why allow more homes to be built in California forests that look to be doomed to fire? Why build homes in deserts of the southwest when those populations will have to move north to survive?
I do not have all the answers. I don’t even know some of the questions that need to be asked. That’s all the more reason why the greatest scientific brains of our nation need to focus on this issue, and then the nation’s officials and CEO’ need to take the financial steps needed for our survival.