World Bank Report Slams 'Inertia' in the Face of Climate Change - NYTimes.com

A major new World Bank report out today concludes that the world can fight poverty and climate change at the same time. But it won't be easy, and it won't be cheap.
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"We are particularly good at acting on threats that can be linked to a human face, that present themselves as unexpected, dramatic or and immediate," the report warns. "The slow pace of climate change as well as the delayed, intangible and statistical natures of its risks simply do not move us."

Wait a minute--we're constantly told that the climate is changing rapidly, and alleged solutions are cheap.

Why is the World Bank now telling us that climate is changing slowly, and alleged solutions are not cheap?

[Alarmist Andy Revkin in March '09:  Concerned that climate realists don't all agree on the precise interplay of the thousands of factors affecting global climate]

[Revkin] And what I sense this year - there was a little of this last year too - is they're realizing they have such a varied array of scientific explanations for what's going on with climate that they felt the need to sort of sync things up, to square up their own stories in some sense, because otherwise they're in danger of losing credibility.

COHEN: And what do you think has caused this change?

Mr. REVKIN: They're not gaining traction, let's put it that way. They're still out there. There are people on the other side of the issue who have a very extreme view of, you know, the climate becoming unraveled in real time where the science also is maybe not there. If you're trying to make a case to the public in America, if you're not consistent, that's a sign of you may not have reality on your side.

Will Revkin write some stories soon about the obvious lack of consistency in the arguments of alarmists?