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

Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.

Perhaps we should put up posters in such places reminding people that where they stand was underwater the last time that the Earth ran a 3°F fever.

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

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.