“Even if you could stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at present day levels, the system has a certain amount of thermal inertia and would take several more decades to stabilize. You'd have to really decrease the rate that you're putting stuff in the atmosphere to get the concentrations to level out and that'll probably be fairly difficult politically.”
“It's a train that's going downhill; that is something that people don't understand. For anything to happen, it's going to have to take the public really being concerned about this problem.”
