The justices' rulings this week have prompted lawmakers to call for a national climate change policy, which would obviously have a long-term investment impact on industries that produce global warming emissions.

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Obama's renewed focus on climate, including his call for "market-based" solutions -- meaning reopening the idea of carbon markets or other such mechanisms, a couple of years after such ideas were considered by many to be dead -- was a return to promises made long ago.

CNN: Obama's message: 'I'm in charge'

The authors aim to add their voice to the call for carbon mitigation and will focus on making clear the ways in which climate change will affect health.

BBC: Climate 'biggest health threat'

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Copenhagen ended last December with a whimper, these new proposals in Bonn unabashedly call for the U.N. to be the main revenue raiser to fight climate change.

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The fact that such an idea is even up for consideration should be a major wake-up call -- a reminder that climate change is real and happening now.

CNN: Don't feed the (polar) bears

The continuing upward trend of atmpospheric CO2 concentration has led many scientists to call for stablizing levels at or around 400 ppm, which will reduce the likelihood of serious climate change.

FORBES: Atmospheric Carbon At All-Time-High