And like the oil companies are the only ones with a financial axe to grind in this. Do you honestly think David Stainforth's name would be in the Guardian if he had concluded, "no problem?"

The new study, in the journal Nature, was done using the spare computing time of 95,000 people from 150 countries who downloaded from the internet the global climate model of the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research. The program, run as a screensaver, simulated what would happen if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were double those of the 18th century, before the Industrial Revolution, the situation predicted by the middle of this century.

Well, I guess that's a hell of a lot more credible than anything those horrible oil companies might come up with.