Didn't the Cato Institute support a Carbon Tax, at least until Obama started expressing an interest in it and conservatives suddenly decided it was phoobah? There are other things which can be done, both technical and political. But it won't happen while private sector propagandists continuously attack any effort to even suggest there might be a problem. Not that I expect that is going to be an issue after the summer we've just had.

There are policy and technical solutions to this, they may not stop global warming altogether, but they may mitigate its worst effects, slow it down or spread it out, and provide economic support to those stakeholders most likely to be negatively affected by it. Maybe we can't beat it, but we might be able to adjust to it with a little planning and preparation.

This may even provide opportunities and employment to those societies which implement these solutions.

But one thing is for sure, as long as those who tend to lose billions by maintaining the status quo are willing to spend millions on convincing the people there is no problem, or that it is merely some bureacratic scam to raise taxes, then nothing is going to happen.

And just think how much progress you've made, TB.
You've staged a disciplined and orderly retreat to every carefully prepared denialist fallback position:

There is no global warming.
Its actually getting cooler.
They don't know what they're talking about.
The data is contradictory.
Competent authorities disagree.
Its all a Socialist plot.
There is a problem, but its natural.
There is a natural problem, but its minimal.
There is a minimal natural problem, but its not our fault.
OK, its our fault, but there's nothing we can do about it now.
Its all a Socialist plot.

Of course, we could simply let the market take care of it, and do nothing at all. And please spare us the bile, sarcasm and the obligatory Objectivist Randian rants. At this point in the argument, it just comes across as very sour grapes.