GreenBiz: Really? ExxonMobil left the risk out of its climate risk report

Imagine cycling down a sweeping mountain road when you hit a dense patch of fog. You know there's a hairpin turn ahead that runs across the lip of a dangerous cliff, but you don't know exactly how far ahead it is. When do you start braking? And how hard do you brake over time? The answers seem so intuitive that the questions are hardly worth asking — you'd hit the brakes immediately, and hard — but these are the fundamental questions society must ask to address the risks posed by climate change.

Scientists have made clear that if we continue burning fossil fuels as we have, at some point we will face a dangerous cliff — a tipping point of rapid, irreversible change with catastrophic impacts. We just don't know when.

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