The Forcings That Drive Long-term Climate Change

Several Times In Earth's History, Rapid Global Warming Occurred, Apparently Spurred By Amplifying Feedbacks. In Each Case, More Than Half Of Plant And Animal Species Became Extinct. New Species Came Into Being Over Tens And Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years. But These Are Time Scales And Generations That We Cannot Imagine.

The Danger Is That The Compromises And Special Interests Inherent In Kyoto-style Targets And Cap-and-trade Will Be Accepted Because Of Bureaucratic Momentum.

We Have To, In The Next Ten Years, Begin To Decrease The Rate Of Carbon Dioxide Emissions And Then Flatten It Out. If That Doesn't Happen In Ten Years, We're Going To Be Passing Certain Tipping Points. If The Ice Sheets Begin To Disintegrate, What Can You Do About It? You Can't Tie A Rope Around An Ice Sheet.

Talking Nice About Sun And Wind And Green Jobs Is Just Greenwash.

Planet Earth, Creation, The World In Which Civilization Developed, The World With Climate Patterns That We Know And Stable Shorelines, Is In Imminent Peril.