By Gerard:
“As global warming proves itself day after day, and results become ever clearer…”

Especially in Europe the results of “global warming” are so clear.

hello. kookovia has been closed. go ahead, turn your thermostat down 1 degree. we affect our enclosed environments, while nature renews itself every moment at the periphery of sunrise. it’s a beautiful thing to witness. you can go suck on a tailpipe, today; and it will not kill you. the EPA is going too far now, and so is the U.N. (a league of temper tantrums with their hands out for borrowed American tax payer dollars). we should absolve ourselves from all dealings with the United Nations. all employees of the Gore publishing network: should apply themselves to reality-based ‘green’ changes, without costing us more jobs, or closing more industries. there is no science [outside of a closed lab environment] that determines humans have more to do with global warming than sunspots. Copenhagen was a hashish vacation.

Huge, quick jump necessary:  From now on, every country in the world, large or small, rich or poor, is going to have to see itself as part of one planet. The provincialism of special interests is going to have to die a natural death.  This will be a major shift in world history, and we can thank climate change for hastening the unitary view.
  As global warming proves itself day after day, and results become ever clearer. governments (to retain any semblance of legitimacy) are going to have to keep in touch with the best science and take measures with all possible speed in proportion to the damage they are doing or the damage they are suffering.
  Many people will want to resist awareness and action because that requires taking responsibility for others.  Some will resist out of “rugged individualism” and selfishness; others out of inability to comprehend or lack of information. Governments will therefore have a primary responsibility to inform accurately as well as to cooperate with each other.
  A decade or more, perhaps, before people can catch up with the realities.  This means a dire need of reliable leadership—even statesmanship beyond the ordinary need.  If we can make the jump into reality, everybody will be better off for the change.  Better to look at it as an opportunity than as a looming disaster.
  Copenhagen was only a second small step into a maze of problems, attitudes and interests.  Practice usually bring improvement. Time sorts things out.

It is very difficult to convince someone of something where denial of that “something” is a key factor in keeping their job.
There is no reason to think that anything serious will be done about global warming until the “wolf is at the door”.
People just don’t get excited about future threats, no matter how well documented.  It is a human flaw and it may be our “epitaph”.