Mitigation recedes, adaptation now the 'main game'

The time for mitigation is largely past and now it seems that adaptation is now the main game.

Oddly, and interestingly, adaptation has already become the norm, at least for humans.

That human adaptation is discussed in a story in the Huffington Post headed: “For Most Of Us, A Warmer World Has Become The New 'Normal'”.

Global warming has been  going on for so long that most of us were not born when the earth was last cooler than average in 1985.

It says: “Decades of climate change bring risks that people will accept higher temperatures, with more heatwaves, downpours and droughts, as normal and complicate government plans to do more to cut emissions of greenhouse gas emissions”.