Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

The real focus needs to be on political action to stop this runaway train, real soon.

Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't pay off your credit card. But for climate, there is no such thing as a fresh start from bankruptcy.

Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

Unless we redesign our civilization in numerous ways, all of the science in the world won't save us.