13:46:16 From  Myles Flaig  to  Everyone:
	I look forward to seeing these questions in print.

13:51:21 From  Ralph Torrie  to  Everyone:
	Stranded assets are a signature of grand transitions.

13:58:21 From  John Meyer  to  Everyone:
	Topic - Investment and price stability.

13:59:24 From  Paul Koch  to  Everyone:
	I'd like to make some comments on zero population growth!

14:02:10 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	The increase in carbon pricing in Canada gives some certainty that prices for fossil fuels will increase

14:02:54 From  Phil Reilly  to  Everyone:
	I expect that the insurance industry will have a big role in creating change to behaviours.

14:03:29 From  Myles Flaig  to  Everyone:
	QUESTION: With respect to stranded assets, a lot of people are moving away from the heavily subsidized MEAT AND DAIRY corporations. Individuals are exercising potentially massive change just by thier choice of diet. Yet COP 26 seems to avoid talking about this industry. Do you agree?
14:03:59 From  Ralph Torrie  to  Everyone:
	A successful effort to turn the emissions curve down will put significant downward pressue on the pre-tax price of fossil fuels, so the only way to maintain high prices will be via taxation.  The amount of oil that is consistent with a 1.5 degree pathway is available with oil  that costs less than $30/barrel.  so a price driven strategy implies taxes that will most of the cost of barrel.

14:05:42 From  Ralph Torrie  to  Everyone:
	Also, energy commodity demand is derived from more fundamental demand for amenity, and is more often than not a relatively small contribution to total cost.  Extreme example: the electricity from a $1 AAA battery runs around $200/kwh.
14:06:53 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	@John Hollins, the problem is that the fossil fuel industry is extremely large and influential with politicians.  That was not the case with CFCs and lead.
14:09:03 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	@John Hollins, the price is inelastic in the short term, however it is elastic over the long term.  This is because people don't replace their vehicles every day, but do replace them after a number of years.
14:17:17 From  Ralph Torrie  to  Everyone:
	Another candidate question to add to Ian's list (I hope I didn't miss it if already included): To what extent will the effort and the cost of coping with extreme weather and unravelling ecosystems crowd out the effort and cost needed to mitigate the source term?

14:17:54 From  Ralph Torrie  to  Everyone:
	The "limits to coping", perhaps?

14:22:15 From  Ralph Torrie  to  Everyone:
	Try the NORMDIST function, which returns the normal cumulative distribution for the specified mean and standard deviation
	
	example:
	paste the grades in the C column and use the following formula in the D column.
	
	+NORMDIST(C1,+AVERAGE(C:C),+STDEV(C:C),TRUE)
	
	The A, B+, B, C+,..... grades can be generated using the following equation in the E column.
	=IF(D2="","", IF(D2>=0.85,"A", IF(D2>=0.75,"B+", IF(D2>=0.55,"B", IF(D2>=0.5,"C+", IF(D2>=0.3,"C", IF(D2>=0.15,"D","F")))))))
	
	obviously the grade limits in the last equation can be adjusted to your own needs.
	
	Thanks for CACOR for these forums!  I must attend to another matter but hope to return later in the conversation.

14:22:57 From  Ralph Torrie  to  Everyone:
	LOL!  Sorry about the irrelevant math in my last post.  Just the last para intended.

14:24:34 From  John Meyer  to  Everyone:
	National responsibility to meet commitments could involve tariffs on a nations exports scaled to level of CO2 reduction shortfall.

14:28:00 From  Vic Buxton  to  Everyone:
	What we need is a plan to create the plan to go forward by everyone which we did with the Montreal protocol

14:33:57 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	@Vic, we have a plan, actually several viable plans, but the oil and gas industry continues to lobby against it...we need to stop burning stuff, period.

14:34:55 From  Virginia Hammon  to  Everyone:
	NPR had a discussion yesterday with an insurer of insurance companies about climate change. He said they saw it as an opportunity to make more money (not quite so boldly stated), but they are in a position to increase rates, etc., and if their predictions about consequence and rates are well-predicted, climate change is an opportunity.

14:35:26 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	With the Montréal protocol, there was no economic downside to implementing the changes.  With CO2 there is a large economic downside for the oil and gas industry which is causing a massive slowdown in the actions that we must take.

14:39:20 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	It is not population growth that is driving GHG emissions, it is the lifestyle of the industrialized world.

14:45:37 From  Raymond Leury  to  Everyone:
	The easiest and most impactful changes you can make as an individual is to stop burning stuff;  switch to electric cars and heat pumps for heating your home and water.

14:46:07 From  John Meyer  to  Everyone:
	A1 Point Raymond!!

14:50:12 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	And enjoy life more than stuff.

15:04:54 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	The young people don’t know it can’t be done.

15:05:23 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	And they are not tired like those who have been looking at this for decades.

15:07:13 From  Myles Flaig  to  Everyone:
	Che’s, Mike, life has a force that seeks to preserve life. Strongest in youth, but elders need to stand up for them.

15:08:51 From  Myles Flaig  to  Everyone:
	Yes, CACOR is an good example .

15:22:19 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	Solstice = Christmas = Giftsmass

15:26:46 From  Mike Nickerson  to  Everyone:
	http://www.sustainwellbeing.net/serve_young_minds.html