Time is running out

The environmental countdown is ticking faster and faster, but you’d barely know it from the response of humanity to the impending explosion that is climate change and global warming.

I’ve just read an extract in the Guardian from Paul Brown’s book, Global Warming, that shows just how close the world is to catastrophic climate change.

The extract looks at how close the global environment is to the “tipping point” - the point at which increasing numbers of scientists believe “it is theoretically possible to trigger runaway climate change, making the earth’s atmosphere so different that most of life would be threatened”.