[nosleeptill]

It's already too late. It's unfortunate that we didn't understand what was happening 100 years ago, if we did we might have been able to do something about it, but as it stands right now, we can't even slow down what's already been set into motion. The earth is now changing, it's not just the climate, and the earth changes will drive the climate, the feedback loop has started.

Unless someone can invent a technology in the next 5 years to pull the excess greenhouse gases from the upper atmosphere and take us back to pre-1825 levels and keep us there going forward, this is a lost game.

It's like standing on top of the Empire State building and watching a balling ball go over the edge, we are at the point where the majority of the ball's mass has gone past the balancing point. We are close enough to recognize that it's happening but too far away to stop it from falling.

[omegaworks]

>It's already too late.

The next stage of climate denialism is climate nihilism.

It is not too late to mitigate some of the effects on our societies.

At the very minimum we need the political will to reallocate resources so that we stop accelerating the process and start structuring safety nets for vulnerable communities.

[fooblitzky]

Exactly right. Every tenth of a degree of warming averted is going to make a big difference to someone down the line.

[sowenjub]

We did understand a 100 years ago. Graham Bell was one of those who warned us.