That the globe is warming is now common knowledge, and while the potential effects of it are still undermined, few dispute the fact that slowing the process is crucial. This book advances the discussion of "warming fates" by bringing the results of advanced computer modelling to bear on ways of minimizing the risks created by global warming. Fossil carbon emissions, other trace gases occurring naturally and gases released from other sources are all considered. The authors demonstrate the need to establish international limits to the release of fossil carbon emissions into the atmosphere. We need to return to a rate of forest carbon storage equal to that of the mid-1980s. Any agenda for the control of global warming will have to take into account the issues of international equity and the ways of moving to a binding agreement. Major capital and technological transfers to Third World countries will be needed. The price of failure to control greenhouse gases may be uncertain, but it will be more than anyone can afford. This book proposes the way forward.