The World Resources Institute is an environmental think-tank with the aim of 'moving human society to live in ways that protect Earth's environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations.'

Their Earth Trends website www.earthtrends.wri.org suggests that the vast majority of the scientific community is now confirming what many of us have suspected for a while. They reviewed 40 scientific papers in 2005 and released an issue brief called 'Climate Science 2005: Major New Discoveries' which they have summed up thus.

2005 was a year in which the scientific discoveries and new research on climate change confirmed the fears and concerns of the science community. Findings reported in peer-reviewed journals last year point to an unavoidable conclusion: the physical consequences of climate change are no longer theoretical; they are real, they are here, and they can be quantified.

So can we please stop messing around with half-hearted, piecemeal efforts to combat it and start taking this seriously because it's right here, right now?