Generational change and the power of one

摘要

‘You see,’ said California Institute of Technology Professor Nate Lewis in 2006, ‘the Earth has a 35-year thermal inertia andnso what we're doing now is only the beginning because we're waiting 35 years even to see the effects of what we did 35 yearsnago. So it would be another 30 years until we started to really see, even at the only 380 parts per million level that we'rendoing now [ie 2006], what those effects are. And we'll be at 550 [ppm] by then...’