This is my point. The discussion around mitigating aren't serious and never have been.

Yes they have been serious, but the actions taken were such that you could predict that we were going to perform the great experiment and see what happens due to the predicted heating of the earth. The Chinese finally woke up and started building nuclear power plants but are way behind and still burning large amounts of coal. What is going on now is to see if we can limit it at a little bit over 2 degrees in warming, and it doesn't look like we can even do that. Most of the scientific people who studied climate change were pro nuclear. I'm no scientist but I am pro nuclear, and we spent a lot of time scaring people about nuclear, so very little is happening there in the USA - or Germany.

There's no reason to distort what is happening in climate change - too little, too late. We weren't willing to make the necessary sacrifices earlier, so we will adapt and mitigate where we can. The global average sea rise has risen some 8-9 inches from 1880. Remember when the prediction was a 3 foot rise slowly over the next 100 years? It's happening faster. As frozen areas warmed up they released huge amounts of frozen methane.

And Dope, you'd be the first to complain if drastic measure were take to reduce GHG and global warming. Anyway, welcome to the experiment - those after us will find out what happens.