zora and rotorbee,
You are right, the story is being written, and future generations will measure what we did and when. Our children are hostage to our malfeasance. The future will look at the words that George Bush and his cronies spout, and they will say, "How could they be so blind?"
The solution is not awful, but it is massive. Carbon is the problem, and uranium and hydrogen are the solutions. Cutting now is hard, because our economic system depends on energy, but replacement must start immediately. If cheap nuclear (not nucular, as the blind say it) were put on line quickly, and coal and oil plants equipped with CO2 scrubbers, and milage standards were imposed across the world, a big dent would be made.
It is not hard, the cost is less than we spend for explosives and armor plate world wide, (the US Navy has more reactors at sea than there are nuclear power plants!) but the effort must start.
Unfortunately, without adult leadership we are screwed. With no asteroid looming closer, and with no tidal wave coming, with no big noise photo opportunities, the start will never really come. Dolts of all sizes and shapes (like those on this forum who think the issue is still in doubt, because they didn't bother to read
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten.../306/5702/1686) continue to slow the process.
The fools who say it isn't happening, fueled by oil money and right wing political pablum give us the same warm comfort that Mom gave us as she pulled the covers over our heads and said, "Don't worry, everything is all right."