Only a huge volcanic eruption will save us all now. Only the total elimination of industrial emissions will succeed in limiting climate change to a 2°C rise in temperatures, according to computer analysis of climate change. I just don't see any hope. Whatever reduction achieved by the EU and a handful of other countries will only be negated by the inevitable increase as a result of the economic development of China and India. We are just not moving fast enough. It will take decades before the world gets its act together and finally start reducing carbon emissions, by then much of micronesia and the maldives may already be submerged. It will be a much sadder world without polar bears that we bring our children into.

The eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991, pumped aerosols into the atmosphere and cooled the global climate by about a degree. It seems to me, only a huge volcanic eruption of a similar scale will save us now.