Ms. Klien shows us her true stripes in this one paragraph:

Climate change demands other forms of planning as well—particularly for workers whose jobs will become obsolete as we wean ourselves off fossil fuels. A few “green jobs” trainings aren’t enough. These workers need to know that real jobs will be waiting for them on the other side. That means bringing back the idea of planning our economies based on collective priorities rather than corporate profitability—giving laid-off employees of car plants and coal mines the tools and resources to create jobs, for example, with Cleveland’s worker-run green co-ops serving as a model.

That’s Marxism through and through and, like Marx lamented the effects of the industrial revolution in his “Manifesto”, his modern day counterparts are still at it with their call for “centrally planned economies” that put the concerns of the “collective” ahead of “corporate profits”. Pathetic. You “watermelons” are losing the argument. Only an imbeciles would conclude that throwing trillions of dollars down a hole to effect a mitigation of “AGW” that would be both barely measurable and unnoticeable is anything but economic suicide! Futhermore, only a wealthy country has the means and the money to clean up it’s environmental messes. Destroying the engine that produces that wealth virtually guarantees a dirtier environment. The ten most polluted places on earth are in third world basket cases, not the western civilized world. You peole are too stupid to “manage” the earth and I do not wish to be an “ant” in a colony or a “cog” in your collectivist wheel fantasies of utopia…You and your ideas must be defeated.

The earth’s eventual destruction and by extension all life on it is a certainty. The only hope we have, that life has, is our ability to continue to developed new technologies and that is going to take money, lots of it. The modern advances we all enjoy today came Crome the minds of the individual pursuing his interests not the collective shoving them down our throats! If new, cleaner forms of energy are going to be found, it will be done that way, not yours.

We have seen warming of 1C degree since about 1950 which is unprecedented in the planets geologic history in such a short period of time- Sources;
NOAA http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/
NASA http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
The Hadley Climate Center
BEST http://berkeleyearth.org/Resources/Berkeley_Earth_Summary_20_Oct
IPCC

‘Cycles’ of climate change in the more distant past where indeed caused by ‘natural events’- on tectonic and volcanic activity over tens of thousands of years-

the last great warming event was the ‘PETM’ 55 million years ago- when vast amounts of carbon – C02 and cH4 (methane) where induced by heavy continental shift and volcanic activity- temperatures rose 5-7 degrees C over 20,000 years )very swift in geologic time)

C02 is now being introduced 10,000 times faster! This means humans in burning fossil fuels for energy are now adding carbon into the atmosphere at an unprecedented pace!

If we continue on a BAU track- we could do in less then 90 years, what the PETM did in 20,000 yrs.

The earth has cooled ever since the PETM- however scientists can now go back and get approximate C02 levels to nearly 20,000,000 yrs to the Miocene when C02 was as high as today (393ppm) sustained in time- at that time there was no ice in the arctic or Greenland year round- the Western Antarctic ice sheet did not exist- and sea levels where 100 feet higher then today.

The science is air tight on global warming- and the facts are truly frightening.