In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .

Everybody was cratered after Copenhagen. If the movie had worked the way that it should have, if it had been scripted by Holywood, the world would have come together and addressed the biggest problem it ever had faced and delegates would have embraced each other, and it all would have been a good happy scene instead of the complete farce and debacle that it turned into - maybe in certain ways, an absolute low point for human diplomacy.

We have to transition to new technologies, making it more expensive to continue with the old and polluting technologies and cheaper to go to the clean ones.

We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.

We'll look for almost any reason not to change our attitudes; the inertia of the established order is powerful. If we can think of a plausible, or even implausible, reason to discount environmental warnings, we will.

In the last two years 24 countries have set new all-time temperature records. We've seen flooding on an epic scale in every continent .