To Blog or To Email, Climate Change makes the jump

I have a group of friends that are passionate about solving global warming.  We e-mail around articles, observations and opinions.  These friends are mostly tech-entrepreneurs, economists and wall-street-types, so the conversation is usually very action-oriented… as opposed to political or academic policy/theory.   But this week something changed.  Now that the election is over, even my political-policy-wonk friends started talking about climate change. 
 
My theory is that now that the election is over, global climate change will start to get the attention it deserves.   Looks like the new administration agrees, because they seem poised to appoint a “Climate Czar”   
 
Global climate change is as big as a problem as problems get. To solve it, we are going to need innovation from everywhere.  Historically, I have trumpeted the innovation form industry, scientist and entrepreneurs.    (Full disclosure am a huge fans of Joseph Schumpeter’s theory of creative destruction).  However, climate change demands innovation in public policy (translation: governments).  Let’s hope that now that the election is over, we can move the conversation about climate change off the listserve and onto the web. 
 
I predict Global Climate change will get solved:
    By technology,
        Invented by scientists,
            Commercialized by entrepreneurs,
                Spurred on by investors,
                    and supported by public policy.
 
Let’s hope a more public discussion adds fuel the fire, (Wow, that is a bad use of metaphor).