Rocks being the biggest carbon sinks? Thats a new one for me. Trees draw down the most carbon out of the air of all things on the planet so far, followed shortly by the ocean which does about a third. So i have a problem currently picturing that rocks do a lot of a difference currently. If you have a source, i would love to read about it though.

I also love the "it's a political thing" debate. It's not. It is a matter of survivial as a species. You think this is some kind of conspiracy that a huge amount of scientists cooked up, together with all the green parties of the world, to create a powerbase? Please, thats not even worth a siencefiction short story. Even if you would entertain that rather amusing thought, where is that powerbase now that the report is out? Oh yeah it doesnt exist, because that is all fantasy. Also the IPCC is not some club if idiots called together yesterday, they have been around for a while and looked that this for a very very long time before bringing out their report.

There is exactly one guy who does not want his name in it, his name is Christopher Landsea. He left saying that he viewed the process "as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound". But he also notes that the actual report "maintain[s] consistency with the actual balance of opinion(s) in the community of relevant experts."
So the usual politics drama on that guy, yet even thought he didn't like something, he still says the whole thing is balanced report about what the experts think. It is a rather silly argument that one guy leaving or not being happy with something that thousands worked on, makes the whole thing bogus.

I read up a little about the current perdictions again. A quarter of the human population and a third of our infrastructure (globally) would have to relocate or be destroyed, if the sealevel rises 2 meters. Currently the IPCC has a range of 0.9 - 1.4 meters sealevel rise projected till 2100. They corrected it half a meter UP, after 5 years more data. Rises in temeprature are a lot faster then they perdicted, most of the "bad values" are in the upper 90% of the ranges they perdicted and feed of each other to cause everything to spiral out even faster than they thought. The initial ssumptions were made on the premesis that many of those values might spike or go higher, but not that a great many of them all go into the top ranges in unison.

Over population is another factor in this gigantic equasion. This not only means families having 10 kids in China or India, it also means women being made criminals if they want to abort their child or being refused access to birth control. Please dont go down the abortion rights road here, this is only one of many little side tracks that all plays into the gigantic machine that drives global warming.

For my part, i only have CFL light bulbs, i even got the company that manages my appartement building to replace all the ones in the halls with CFLs. I bought a load of power bars and switch everything off completely that i am not using, with the exception of my alarm clock. There is a solarpanel on my balcony, supplying some extra power that i am not sucking form the grid, saving me money and the envoriment some extra carbon. I walk, bike or use the bus, dont even own a car. If i would buy one, it would be this one: http://theaircar.com/ which not only is nice to the environment, no, i also save a ton of gas, can refill it for free at pretty much all gas stations, can plug it into a socket if need be, or use a solarpanel to recharge it at home. It might not be a cool sportscar, but it will drive me around town and cost me less than any other car in buying and maintanance.

Don't go living in a cave. Just do the small changes that will in effect save you money. And btw also help the environment, but thats just a small added bonus.