The industrial burning of fossil fuels has released CO2 that is purported to be responsible for .7 degrees of planetary warming over the last century, and climate models predict it could be responsible for up to another 2 – 6 degrees over the next 100 years. Despite the fact that very few of the climate change predictions made since the late nineteen-eighties have come true (think empty dams, no more snow in the UK and an ice-free arctic) if a warmer earth is going to be a problem, what can we do about it?

Mainstream thinking tells that leaving fossil fuels...