Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Questions about the future course of coal had been circulating for years, often raised by the same people who would point out that projections for renewable energy kept also comically underestimating the growth of wind and solar power.
57% : People are writing credible papers in scientific journals making the case that switching rapidly to renewable energy isn't a net cost; it will be a net financial benefit," she says with a head-shake of near-disbelief.
54% : Everyone knew about the decades of coal-powered economic growth in China, but those working closely on the future of energy had already grown somewhat skeptical that the same model would be deployed across the developing world -- and even more skeptical that the rich nations of the world would ever return to coal in a sustained way.
54% : "If the far right wins," he says, "I see copycat agencies that are much like ICE operating in much of the global north and in some emerging states.
52% : As prime minister, Boris Johnson talked about making the United Kingdom the "Saudi Arabia of wind power," and the Inflation Reduction Act was written to supercharge American competitiveness on green energy.
49% : This year, investment in green energy surpassed that in fossil fuels, despite the scramble for gas and the "return to coal" prompted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
47% : To begin with, the world started to shift away from coal.
45% : Since 2010, the cost of solar power and lithium-battery technology has fallen by more than 85 percent, the cost of wind power by more than 55 percent.
41% : In a news release accompanying its report, the United Nations predicted that a world more than two degrees warmer would lead to "endless suffering."
38% : The International Energy Agency recently predicted that solar power would become "the cheapest source of electricity in history," and a report by Carbon Tracker found that 90 percent of the global population lives in places where new renewable power would be cheaper than new dirty power.
38% : There wasn't serious debate about the Green New Deal or the European Green Deal, or even whispers of Fit for 55 or the Inflation Reduction Act or the Chinese promise to peak emissions by 2030.
38% : In the United States, the climate bill that emerged finally into law was not a Green New Deal, a punitive carbon tax or a program of demand reduction but an expansive, incentive-based approach to decarbonizing that included support for nuclear power and even carbon capture, long an anathema to the climate left.

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