At the end of the Davos conference, the World Tourism Organization advised travelers to take the climate into account and "where possible to reduce their carbon footprint".
That was the climate into which Simple Minds released the best album of their career, an album of almost supernatural-sounding positivity and ethereal wonderment.
One possibility has been that a massive escape of methane from the ocean floor tipped the climate into a new hothouse regime.
It is also possible that it could push the climate into an unstable mode, leading, especially in the upper latitudes, to a period of wild temperature swings of the sort that characterized the end of the last ice age.
For well under a billion dollars, a "coalition of the willing," a single country or even a wealthy individual could decide to take the climate into its own hands.
At the end of the Davos conference, the World Tourism Organization advised travelers to take the climate into account and "where possible to reduce their carbon footprint". But if Europeans stopped flying to Fiji or Antalya, poverty would worsen, tourism officials said.
You shop for more than just clothes, so whatever you're shopping for — groceries, home goods, toys and whatever else — there are ways to take the climate into account.
Climate models predict that the winds and sea ice will continue to increase in the Ross Sea for the next 30 to 40 years, at which time the region is expected to experience a tipping point, as rising temperatures and the waning effect of the ozone hole, now getting smaller, transform the climate into the kind now seen in the Antarctic Peninsula.
Houses in Egypt are often designed without taking the climate into account sufficiently.
So, how can we ensure that developing economies can purchase the automobiles they crave without sending the climate into a tailspin?
