As Species Are Exterminated By Shifting Climate

Rising Carbon Price Is Essential To 'decarbonize' The Economy - To Remove The Nation Towards The Era Beyond Fossil Fuels.

In View Of The Immense Power Of Natural Weather And Climate Fluctuations And The Great Buffering Capacity Of The Earth, Especially The Ocean, It Is Easy To Be Skeptical About Whether Small Anthropogenic Changes Of Atmospheric Composition Can Have Important Practical Impacts.

Our Analysis Shows That, For The Extreme Hot Weather Of The Recent Past, There Is Virtually No Explanation Other Than Climate Change. The Deadly European Heat Wave Of 2003, The Fiery Russian Heat Wave Of 2010 And Catastrophic Droughts In Texas And Oklahoma Last Year [2011] Can Each Be Attributed To Climate Change. The Odds That Natural Variability Created These Extremes Are Minuscule, Vanishingly Small. To Count On Those Odds Would Be Like Quitting Your Job And Playing The Lottery Every Morning To Pay The Bills.

It Would Be Immoral To Leave Young People With A Climate System Spiraling Out Of Control.

If Humanity Wishes To Preserve A Planet Similar To That On Which Civilisation Developed And To Which Life On Earth Is Adapted, Paleoclimate Evidence And Ongoing Climate Change Suggest That Co₂ Will Need To Be Reduced From Its Current 385 Ppm [parts Per Million] To At Most 350 Ppm... If The Present Overshoot Of This Target Co₂ Is Not Brief, There Is A Possibility Of Seeding Irreversible Catastrophic Effects.