Not that those of us in the scientific community didn't already know this, but computer models predict that even if global greenhouse gas emissions were to stabilize immediately, we would expect to see significant warming over the next 100 years (Scientific American: Climate Models Reveal Inevitability of Global Warming).

Playing with the atmosphere is a little like steering an oil tanker. Sure, we could put on the brakes now, but it would take miles before we'd stop. While a person like me finds a report such as this incredibly disturbing and motivates me to curb my energy use even further, I think that this could ultimately have a negative effect on efforts to control greenhouse gas emissions.

The consequences of these emissions are now shown to be inevitable beyond the lifespan of the average human. Is the average person going to care anymore? For all of the outrage that parents have against "indecency" on television, in video games or on the internet in the name of their children, they really don't seem to care in the slightest about the future that those children will have.