" Britain’s Exeter University, a scientist named Kevin Anderson took the podium for a major address. He showed slide after slide, graph after graph, “representing the fumes that belch from chimneys, exhausts and jet engines, that should have bent in a rapid curve towards the ground, were heading for the ceiling instead.” His conclusion: it was “improbable” that we’d be able "
― Bill McKibben , Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet