We need some honesty from the business community that to stay the right side of the climate change line, new business sectors need to grow, others may adapt and convert, but some will also have to consign themselves to history.
The impact can be seen in this figure which shows the prior expectations of the climate (dashed line) alongside the revised prediction (solid).
The Arctic, perhaps more than any other place on Earth right now, is a climate front line.
An October 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press suggests public opinions about climate change line up more on political than scientific grounds.
Think of it this way: the two trains, healthcare and climate, are lined up at the station.
Environmentalists say the pledge is significant because it quells some of their fears that the Conservatives might adopt a more climate-sceptic line, to mirror UKIP's position.
Universal's refusal to finance "Tintin" underscores how in today's tough economic climate, bottom-line concerns trump once-inviolable relationships between studios and talent.
I have visited the climate front lines, from the Arctic to Antarctica and to the Amazon, from the Sahel to the Aral Sea.
As fall sets in here in the northern hemisphere, our changing global climate is lining up to render yet another unprecedented summer along the Antarctic Peninsula.
"I think it's our task to ensure that climate change lines up right behind immigration and gay rights as an issue," said Whitehouse at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Washington sponsored by labor unions and environmental groups.
