Dispatch from Denver: Making Climate Change THE Issue | OneWorld.net (U.S.)

There is mounting concern about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, Brown said, explaining that scientists recently witnessed a glacier there flowing at 2 meters an hour -- not the typical 2-3 meters per year they're used to seeing.
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"If we were to move to the most efficient lighting technologies available today, we could reduce electricity demand by 12 percent," Brown says, noting that a worldwide effort to "ban the bulb" would allow the immediate closure of 270 coal-fired power plants.
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"In the new energy economy, we see 40 percent of the world's electricity coming from wind," Brown added. "That would require building roughly a million and a half wind turbines over the next dozen years. Now a million and a half may sound like a lot, but we make 65 million cars a year."