Climate Change Warning

I just started reading a book about the dire consequences of climate change called, The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change by Fred Pearce.

Here's an excerpt from the book that I found appropos to what we've been doing to the earth:

"As Wally Broecker, one of the high priests of abrupt planetary processes, says, 'Climate is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks.'"