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

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.

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.

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.

You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.