I just wanted to add something, in response to your one line of your post Kelly.

“I think it is long past the time for that. But no, it isn’t time to give up all of our technology and live in caves”

Climate change doesn’t mean we have to go back into living in caves. In fact, if we are smart, going “green” will actually create even more jobs, and more tech.

Climate change just means we need to stop burning coal for electricity, and stop burning oil for fuel, immediately.

We need to start using solar, wind, wave, geothermal, heck anything, and the sooner the better.

Interesting note, if we could capture all of the solar energy that hits the planet in 1 second, we would have enough electricity to power everything on earth for an entire year.

Heck even if we could only capture 1/10th of 1%, that would completely negate the need for any other source of power.

That may be hard to do, while the Oil companies are still in control. When you have a company like Exxon (assets a paltry 195 billion,and just 1 player out of many).

Exxon’s 2007 profit ($39 billion) was more then ALL of the car companies, in the entire world, combined, scary.

I just wanted to alleviate your concerns about living in a Cave, because I don’t like the idea of not having a couch and a big TV 🙂