Politics are the primary enemy of progress. Right now incentives for renewables are being cancelled at a state and national level across the US. That is unaccep

Politics are the primary enemy of progress. Right now incentives for renewables are being cancelled at a state and national level across the US. That is unacceptable low hanging fruit. NASA, the NWS, and even the NHS (see Zika) should all be studying this actively (edit: and coordinating this research, and publishing/sharing data). Carbon taxes shouldn't just be on the table, they should be in place and should form the basis of tariffs. This is happening right now, it's not a future thing. We're dealing with it whether we want to or not. Sadly, your natural gas heater is currently more carbon friendly than electric heat. In an interconnected grid, what you are using is probably offset by a mix of coal and gas generation, and to get to you it's suffering transmission loss. Solar hot water is a big win, though, especially if you are electric there. Same with insulation. Eat less meat. Repair vs replace. Good luck to all of us. edit: full disclosure, I replied to you without reading the article. I just read it. Holy shit. I wish there was someone that could comfort me that between ocean acidification, conveyor current shutdown, Greenland/Ross shelf based melting, threats to krill lifecycle, precipitation changes, and changes in farmland suitability (among others) ... we are looking at mass human die-offs over most people heres' lifetimes. When you look at the level of interconnection across the world, specialization, fragility of our complex systems... it's hard for me to not come up with a back of envelope figure ~6 billion deaths from starvation & conflict. Based on our resource extraction rate, it could easily make this the peak of human civilization.