Warming? Ask Business.

While political debates might suggest that the question of climate change is yet unresolved (or worse, a shady liberal scheme), the world of industry and commerce is convinced that global warming is real, and imminent. Companies’ greed plants them inevitably in the “reality-based community” writes Clive Thomson, and, as such, many businesses are already looking for ways to exploit the changing climate—or protect their businesses from the sea-level rise.