We CAN and MUST do something about the weather.
Graphic of WITH and WITHOUT policies on CO2 for the future
We CAN and MUST do something about the weather.
Crisis is multipronged and self-reinforcing, and rate of change for the worse is increasing.
RATE of CHANGE is key, since it challenges our adaptive capacities in ways that slow change did not.
Projections and measures of CO2 impact going forward. Gigatons of CO2 graphic
I don't think mankind has what it takes to pay the cost of leaving fossil fuels behind. So it will happen anyway, and those who live in that day will look back and not comprehend how we could have been so selfish. What do you think the storyline will be over the next fifty years? My grandkids (and yours) will inherit your answers.
cooling or pause in warming (of air) but increase in ocean temps