Time to declare war on warming
In 2004, scientists warned that the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere during 2003 had been unusually high for the second year running. They were becoming worried about runaway warming, they said. Runaway warming is a horror story wherein carbon dioxide emissions are stimulated at a faster rate from an overheating natural world than they can be reduced by society cutting fossil-fuel burning and other sources of greenhouse-gas emissions.
