“But they’re still trapped in a paradigm of thinking that, frankly, we should have abandoned by 2008. We don’t have time for anything but the equivalent of a planetary wartime mobilization. Otherwise, it’s Welcome to Hobbes.” “Hobbes?” asked the reporter. “As in Thomas. As I wrote in my book, these feedbacks are tombstone dominoes. We’ve documented the first of the methane hydrates beginning to melt as the ocean warms, but we have no idea how sensitive this feedback loop might be.
