Climate and Energy Primer

A relatively stable, predictable climate is an essential life support function of the Earth. Human use of carbon-based fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal has increased the quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that warm the planet. There is strong scientific evidence that the release of greenhouse gases from human activity has warmed the Earth. Indeed, the increase in the Earth's temperature since 1850, and the increase that is forecast to occur over the next 100 years, pose grave risk to all nations.  The "climate problem" and the "energy problem" thus are are intimately linked, and must be tackled together.