It's all going to depend on the slopes of the various curves, right?

• How fast can sustainable sources be developed?
  
• At what cost?
  
• Compared to easy coal.
  
• And natural gas, and oil.
  
• And nuclear.

My bet is that even as the catastrophic results of climate change--that we are just now starting to see obvious evidence of--cause sweeping political change, there is so much hysteresis in the technical underpinnings of the energy industry that we are in for at least another decade or two of increasing dependence on coal and nuclear energy. How do you run your A/C if the power's out?

It was 48 C (118 F) in Kansas yesterday. Huge storm on U.S. east cost will have power out for weeks. Fires all over the west. All-time high temperature records broken in June instead of August...

More nukes is still probably, I think...