An alarmist's climate timeline

2007: Landmark report by the IPCC delivers crippling blow to climate sceptics. It says the evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and forecasts warming of 1.8-4.0°C by 2100 and an unquantifiable rise in sea levels.

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to IPCC and former US vice president Al Gore, whose documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" raised climate change awareness.

UNFCCC members including the US agree after marathon talks in Bali, Indonesia, to agree to a new treaty in Copenhagen by the end of 2009 that will succeed Kyoto.

Fight global warming -- and stop a buckeye invasion | Environmental activists attempt to reach allegedly stupid football fans

Yes, according to recent studies, Ohio's buckeye tree -- symbol of five straight losses for the Wolverines -- could be on the march north due to global warming.
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Bold action is needed not only to save the Ohio buckeye from a lonely exile to the Wolverine State, but to grow new jobs and speed economic recovery across the Midwest as well.

We can't afford to punt the problem of global warming to our children and grandchildren. That is, not unless you want your kids to root for the "Michigan Buckeyes."
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ANDY BUCHSBAUM is the regional executive director of the National Wildlife Federation's Great Lakes office, in Ann Arbor. TOM BULLOCK is the Pew Environment Group's Ohio representative.