Trees offer a way to delay the consequences of climate change - Tw o contradictory facts reign supreme with regard to climate change. The first is that the atmosphere and oceans of our planet are heating up . The catastrophic consequences of this reality are already baked into the environment, and most of New Orleans will be underwater 100 years from now. If Occupy Wall Street persists as a political movement till then, it will have to hoist its banners from kayaks .