I have just submitted a paper that shows no matter how fast the transition, substituting natural gas can bring us 40 % of the way to immediately substituting low carbon energy sources. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
In their view, doubling CO2 may only warm the world by 1.5 degrees or so, giving us many more decades to develop lower carbon energy sources. (dailymail.co.uk)
The solution is to get on solar and other renewable energy sources as soon as possible so that we can build the rest of our renewable energy system using low carbon energy sources. (lowtechmagazine.com)