Impact of Climate change being discussed

[Suff]

So I read this headline.. Climate change will wipe $2.5tn off global financial assets: study and my first thought was "25tn more like". So I opened the article and the first paragraph said

Losses could soar to $24tn and wreck the global economy in worst case scenario

Hmmm. I'd have thought this was the best case scenario. In the worst case scenario Bangladesh vanishes, loads of islands vanish, Australia loses half it's arable land and Argentina has to change crops from Wheat, the North American mid west becomes a dust bowl and we start growing most of our wheat in Canada and Siberia.

I've been tracking this winter. It's notable for:

The lowest maximum Arctic Ice Extent
The highest Arctic temperatures recorded
The lowest maximum Arctic ice volume

and now the Ice area is tracking the lowest recorded in the satellite record. More interesting is the hurricanes which keep almost making it to the arctic circle and the fact that Greenland seems to be losing the majority of it's ice through warm humid air and not through strong sunlight.

$2.5tn?? Pocket change.

[Aggers]

What with Climate Change, Islamic State, etc., etc., the future doesn't look very promising, does it?

If there were any young children in my family, I'd be very concerned.

[Workingman]

Money, money, money!

Why is everything measured in the £, $ and €?

Why not measure the cost in deaths, the loss of arable land to feed ourselves, the loss of water to irrigate the diminishing crops and the increase in wars as people go after those diminishing resources?

There will still be rich and poor, but if I have the last cabbage and you have £10bn then who is the richer?

[Suff]

Sadly because if you talk about arable land and water nobody will listen. Those in power just listen to money. They think that you can always "make" arable land if you need to and you can always "make" water if you have to.

Reality on the world stage comes in $ signs. You know the old saying. If you kill one person you are a murderer, if you kill 100 people you are a mass murderer, but if you kill 1 million people you are.... A Statesman!

Today they are listening to $ figures. If it does not have a value they won't listen. Of course the only other figure they are interested in is votes and if you can't tell them that Climate Change will impact their votes in the next 4-5 years, then they won't even listen to that.

David Cameron is the only Premier that had climate change as a core pedestal of his campaign and the Premier who has implemented the strictest carbon reductions in the world. Doesn't seem to have done him any harm but other political leaders are hardly likely to follow his lead into something which might be unknown in an election.