Most troubling of all, dozens of "blind pools" or "blank-check companies, " firms with no operating history that raise money to invest in anything the managers regard as suitable, have filed to go public under the JOBS Act.
He finds that research into geo-engineering, which might slow or check the temperature increases, languishes under-examined, and that the international problems such technology would raise seem no more likely to be sorted out wisely than the problems of climate change itself.