Generally just distrubing

So the gulf stream (original Nature article) is starting to show signs of change.

This is really just pretty upsetting.

Questions:

Can the effects be slowed down or stopped at the present level?

Has the melting of the GreenLand glaciers gone past the no return point?

More than anything else the Conference at Montreal on Kyoto likely should be trying to at least struggle with questions of what to do if we are past the no return point.

Could someone at least start to think about it?

From what I can gather the Montreal meeting's main objective will be less urgent and then again maybe I'm being chicken-little by thinking Kyoto is really an anachronism.

From the conference documents the objectives maybe noble, in effect to consider how legally to get everyone to agree to the:

"... stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system."

But if things aren't now stabilized, should we be considering how to deal with the instability?

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