What should we be doing a, and what's realistic that may happen in the near term? >> what we should be doing is twofold. first we have to cut our emissions. the reason we have to cut our emissions is because if we don't, we enter a territory of unmanageable, irreversible climate change some we're experiencing is already irreversible but if we cut emissions we can avoid the worst of heating. and we also need to prepare. because of the accumulated carbon in the atmosphere and other green house gas emissions there's a delayed heating effect. so even if we got our emissions to zero tomorrow we con...