http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0222-27.htm

Read this if you dare!  As the permafrost melts amounts of methane released into the atmosphere will dwarf the already catastrophic greenhouse effect of CO 2 from human combustion sources.

This emergency is on the order of WW 2, it needs WW 2- like war production of renewable energy products.

Wind, solar, geothermal heat pump heating/cooling, and electric vehicles.  Coming off assembly lines as fast as jeeps and tanks and liberty ships in WW 2.