<div>It's 50 years since climate change was first seen. Now time is running out | Richard Wiles</div>

Making up for years of delay and denial will not be easy, nor will it be cheap. Climate polluters must be held accountableFifty years ago, the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) delivered a report titled Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Polluters to the American Petroleum Institute (API), a trade association for the fossil fuel industry.The report, unearthed by researchers at the Center for International Environmental Law, is one of the earliest attempts by the industry to grapple with the impacts of rising CO2 levels, which Stanford’s researchers warned if left unabated “could bring about climatic changes” like temperature increases, melting of ice caps and sea level rise. With each decade of delay and denial the impacts and costs of climate change have continued to mount Related: Climate change is a disaster foretold, just like the first world war | Jeff Sparrow Continue reading...