The world has released more since that document was produced, than in the whole of human history before it.
Unfortunately there's still a lot of people that think this is a natural cycle and that it's not caused by humans. The sad truth is that for anything drastic to happen we will probably need to wait another 20-30 years for (a) the consequences to be right in your face, and (b) a majority of the old decision makers holding us back to be dead, retired, or irrelevant (no longer have the pull whisper in new decision maker's ears).
20-30 years and we're in chaos, and have to go into reverse emissions.
In Europe there seems to be a growing public awareness and will to respond, the EU might catch up to public opinion. It's been in our face consequence wise for most of the last 10 years. Summers we expect once or twice in a lifetime coming every 2 or 3 years is kinda hard to not notice...
Notable is difference from in your face. I'm referring to regions drastically changing. I know it will be too late then, which absolutely sucks. This is why I don't think we'll get through this as a majority of the population... and this is coming from someone that's typically an optimist.
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So very succinct.
"Timescale for significant impact, very roughly 50 years"
"1°C Rise (2005): Barely noticeable"
"2.5°C Rise (2038): Major economic consequences, Strong regional dependence"
"5°C Rise (2067): Globally Catastrophic effects"
The world has released more since that document was produced, than in the whole of human history before it.
Unfortunately there's still a lot of people that think this is a natural cycle and that it's not caused by humans. The sad truth is that for anything drastic to happen we will probably need to wait another 20-30 years for (a) the consequences to be right in your face, and (b) a majority of the old decision makers holding us back to be dead, retired, or irrelevant (no longer have the pull whisper in new decision maker's ears).
20-30 years and we're in chaos, and have to go into reverse emissions.
In Europe there seems to be a growing public awareness and will to respond, the EU might catch up to public opinion. It's been in our face consequence wise for most of the last 10 years. Summers we expect once or twice in a lifetime coming every 2 or 3 years is kinda hard to not notice...
Notable is difference from in your face. I'm referring to regions drastically changing. I know it will be too late then, which absolutely sucks. This is why I don't think we'll get through this as a majority of the population... and this is coming from someone that's typically an optimist.