Guardian: Back in 1736, Benjamin Franklin famously advised his Philadelphia neighbours that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Franklin started the city's first fire department, as well as a fire insurance company, but he knew, as we all do, that preventing fires is better than fighting them, or cleaning up afterwards.
Franklin's words came to mind in mid-July when a Washington think tank called the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) released a report called Weathering the Storm:...