What We Are Doing To The Future

It Has Become Very Difficult For Anyone To Argue That Observed Global Warming Is Natural Variability. We Have Good Reason For Being Able To Say That The World Will Be Warmer By About A Quarter Of A Degree In The Next Decade. It's The Same Reason We Had 10 Years Ago When We Said That The 1990s Would Be Warmer Than The 1980s: The Planet Is Out Of Equilibrium.

Injection Of Environmental And Political Perspectives In Midstream Of The Science Discussion Cannot Help The Process Of Inquiry. I Believe That Persons With Relevant Scientific Expertise Should Concentrate, With Pride, On Cool Objective Analysis, Providing Information To The Public And Decision-makers When It Is Found, But Leaving The Moral Implications For Later Common Consideration, Or At Most For Summary Inferential Discussion.

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

The Trains Carrying Coal To Power Plants Are Death Trains. Coal-fired Power Plants Are Factories Of Death.

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.