We're Running Out Of Time.

Policy Decisions On Climate Change Are Being Deliberated Every Day By Those Without Full Knowledge Of The Science, And Often With Intentional Misinformation Spawned By Special Interests.

Recent Warming Coincides With Rapid Growth Of Human-made Greenhouse Gases. The Observed Rapid Warming Gives Urgency To Discussions About How To Slow Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

Injection Of Environmental And Political Perspectives In Midstream Of The Science Discussion Cannot Help The Process Of Inquiry. I Believe That Persons With Relevant Scientific Expertise Should Concentrate, With Pride, On Cool Objective Analysis, Providing Information To The Public And Decision-makers When It Is Found, But Leaving The Moral Implications For Later Common Consideration, Or At Most For Summary Inferential Discussion.

The Five-year Mean Global Temperature Has Been Flat For The Last Decade

It Has Become Very Difficult For Anyone To Argue That Observed Global Warming Is Natural Variability. We Have Good Reason For Being Able To Say That The World Will Be Warmer By About A Quarter Of A Degree In The Next Decade. It's The Same Reason We Had 10 Years Ago When We Said That The 1990s Would Be Warmer Than The 1980s: The Planet Is Out Of Equilibrium.