Have we reached the tipping point on CO2?

Yet another alarmist goes ballistic....

He added: "We now have data showing that from 2000 to 2007, greenhouse gas emissions increased far more rapidly than we expected, primarily because developing countries, like China and India, saw a huge upsurge in electric power generation, almost all of it based on coal."

He warned that the trend is likely to continue if more developing countries turn to coal and other carbon-intensive fuels to meet their energy needs.

Prof Field added: "Without effective action, climate change is going to be larger and more difficult to deal with than we thought.

"If you look at the set of things that we can do as a society, taking aggressive action on climate seems like one that has the best possibility of a win-win. We really have very little time."

But, this raises a big question. And, it's for the true believers - do we have any time at all. I blogged a story 2 weeks ago where other scientists said that it's now irreversible. This guy says we have very little time. A year? 6 months? What does that mean? We know that China is NOT going to stop using coal, so is there anything that could possibly be done that would actually lower CO2 emissions?

Assuming you believe in this stuff, then the only solution is to use our money wisely - and for adaptation to warmer climates, no?