Companies cooling on global warming

FALLING concern about global warming has prompted a drop in the proportion of companies assessing their vulnerability to climate change, while government policies to manage the risks remain fragmented and unco-ordinated, a study released by the Climate Institute has found.

The report found a widespread belief that because taking steps to limit the risks to long-lived assets such as the energy industry and railways is ''expensive, extensive, time-consuming and difficult'', ''no action is often seen as the easiest path''.

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CSC Chief Science Advisor Professor Bob Carter of James Cook University in Australia adds, “Whether it’s warming or cooling is entirely a function of the length of the piece of climate string you choose to cut off.”

Here are different start dates that survey coordinators could have used and the resultant temperature trends to the present:

Since 1998, slight cooling.
Since 1996, neither warming nor cooling.
1980, slight warming
1,000 AD, cooling
600 AD, warming.
150 BC, cooling
1,350 BC, cooling.
2,800 BC, warming.
4,000 BC, cooling.

Farron Cousins | Why Is North America Behind The Curve On Climate Change and Energy?

So with everyone else making huge gains in the area of renewable energy, why has North America fallen so far off its pedestal? There are two answers to that question, and they are joined at the hip: Money and spin.