With the Copenhagen Climate Summit under way I will be following proceedings and commenting here.

But already I feel that its is a waste of time.   The climate change deniers continue to put self interest or a misguided belief in some kind of conspiracy ahead of the future of human kind and without a global consensus it seems unlikely that any real and significant reduction in CO2 emissions will be made.

For a moment imagine what daily life will be like in 2109 if the worst case scenarios of climate change come about.  I hear you saying that you wont be around in 2109 so why worry, well if you have children then they and their children will be trying to live in those times.

Global warming effects will cause more extremes and not be evenly distributed around the planet.  So in some places sea levels will rise more than others, hot places will get hotter, possibly too hot for us to live outside.   Expect long droughts, food shortages, floods, killer heat waves, super hurricanes, and a run away effect that no technology can stop.   Let your imagination free to consider the catastrophe that is possible and then decide if global warming is something you should do something about now.