Unfortuately, AGW is NOT going away. There is WAY too much money to made from trading Carbon Credits to the gullible, and in using it to flog sales - look at the investments and advertisements from all the high-tech firms. They are pushing technology as THE answer to all the world’s problems, and especially AGW. There is a multi-billion dollar hardware refresh that (according to them) MUST happen to save the planet. The accompanying software spend will run 3 to 7 times the cost of the h/w and the accompanying services will be 10x or more the h/w cost. That’s why IBM adds look like discards from a Disney cartoon and HP et al spend millions lobbying for stricter governmental regulations, blather about saving the planet, etc. Large legal firms, Goldman-Sachs and the other financial houses were all counting on Carbon Credits-trading profits as major revenue streams. The delay in mandating them has cost them plenty. These firms can not afford and will let the cash cow of AGW die. And, they will buy whatever political help they need, while idiot presstitutes like Fineman, Krugman, etc. write babble about a ‘flatter, hotter and more crowded’ world.
Think of all the light bulbs to be bought - first by Yahoos like me stocking up on the old ones, everyone else buying the new ones. And yeah, the new ones can’t be ‘dimmed’ w/o retrofitting, so there $ for electricians.
And on and on and on...