[pastullo]

I'm getting extremely pessimistic about our chances at stopping this. It looks like even though we drastically reduce our emissions (which looks very much unrealistic) we haven't yet factored in all these variety of negative feedbacks that exacerbate the problem even more. It looks more and more like the chain of negative effects like the lost albedo effect, the methane released by the melting permafrost and tons of others will create a unstoppable runaway reaction. :(

[blue1]

Nitpick: in system dynamics, a self-reinforcing loop is called "positive feedback", whether it is desirable or not. A "negative feedback" is a stabilizing mechanism.

[gdubs]

Yea, I’m generally an optimist but the last few weeks of headlines all seem to be of the “worst than expected, “sooner than expected” variety.

It’s infuriating how cheaply and seamlessly this problem could have been solved if we started gradually, 30 years ago.

[pojzon]

People that knew about it and decided to do nothing should be prosecuted and put to jail. They wont have to live with those decisions long enough to see how disastrous they were but OUR children will..