Drawing on experience building a customer base for various products over many years, Clark sees efforts to curb
emissions of
greenhouse gases as a solution that —
because of the long - term and
cumulative nature of warming risks — is offered well ahead of public recognition of the problem (truly disruptive changes to conditions and resources humans depend on).
Because all 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change scenarios — except Representative Concentration Pathway 2.6 (RCP2.6), which leads to the total radiative forcing of
greenhouse gases of 2.6 W m − 2 in 2100 — imply that
cumulative carbon
emission will exceed 1,000 Gt in the twenty - first century, our results suggest that anthropogenic interference will make the initiation of the next ice age impossible over a time period comparable to the duration of previous glacial cycles.»