There is going to be a huge amount of response to the Fourth Assessment of the IPCC on Feb 2 – and lots of quotes. In fact, it’s already started. Here’s the best one I’ve seen today, from John Holdren, the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science:
“We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”
