A decade ago, it would have been easier to address anthropogenic forcing of the radiative balance, but a manufactured debate and our nation’s No Regrets strategy, the cavalier policy propagandizing human munificence through environmental inaction while ignoring the energizing climate, derailed an effective proactive strategy. Today, the risk of failure for any project continues to intensify day by day, splaying our band-aid class of solutions for all time, while branding the pages of history with a chronicle of ineptitude, fear, corruption, and stupidity. Meanwhile, the suite of climate events continues to evolve through a set of non-deterministic, non-linear inputs setting the stage for unprecedented damage and cost. That suite of climate events, the ones in popular focus, includes items like sea level rise, drought, intensified storms, damaging hail, rogue waves, larger hurricanes, more tornado clusters, flooding, species migration, disease migration, economic disruption, ocean acidification, food crop damage, potable water issues, and defense problems. So much for No Regrets–how long will it be before we hear about the replacement for No Regrets?