The Urgency Derives From The Nearness Of

We're Handing Them [young People & Future Generations] A Climate System Which Is Potentially Out Of Their Control. We're In An Emergency: You Can See What's On The Horizon Over The Next Few Decades With The Effects It Will Have On Ecosystems, Sea Level And Species Extinction

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.

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.

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

We Have At Most Ten Years - Not Ten Years To Decide Upon Action, But Ten Years To Alter Fundamentally The Trajectory Of Global Greenhouse Emissions... We Are Near A Tipping Point, A Point Of No Return, Beyond Which The Built In Momentum And Feedbacks Will Carry Us To Levels Of Climate Change With Staggering Consequences For Humanity And All Of The Residents Of This Planet.