Politicians are punished if proactive and praised (and re-elected) if reactive.
Look at the Carbon tax now.
When the equator is a no-mans-land and tornadoes are the norm, Carbon tax will seem like a "why didn't you do it back then" idea.
I know this probably a bad idea but what would happen if we tried to burn the methane as it comes out of the permafrost? Would it reduce the greenhouse gases?
Since it looks like the GOP is going to loose at the next election, a civil war is one of the few options left