Chances of climate change accord 'are sinking' - Times Online

Two leading climate scientists have broken ranks with their peers to declare that hopes of getting a meaningful deal on halting global warming this year are already lost.

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and Professor Trevor Davies, one of the centre's founders, told The Times that it was time to start looking for alternatives to an international deal.

This is Not Youthful Rebellion. We See the Catastrophe Ahead | CommonDreams.org

Lily Kember is 21 years old. Late last year, with 50 other activists, she shut down Stansted airport, in the process preventing thousands of tons of CO2 being released into the atmosphere. A few minutes before her arrest she told listeners of the Today program: "We're here because our parents' generation has failed us and it's now down to young people to stop climate change by whatever peaceful means we have left."

Science Magazine: Remembering a Rare Energy Realism Essay (Best Article Award?) — MasterResource

Sound scholarship passes the test of time. This essay certainly qualifies.