Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volumes on Map of New York 1979-2012
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We have already passed the point of no return for catastrophic climate change - the 400 ppm threshold was a little like seeing the big sign with sirens that says "Bridge out." and then plowing right through the barricade anyway. At the current rate of RISING CO2 emissions, it has become pointless to talk about prevention - the CO2 being poured into the atmosphere is soon to be joined by methane gas from the former-permafrost regions and when that starts, it is truly game over for about 6 of the 7 billion people on Earth.
No one took the warnings seriously when they started.
No one took the warnings seriously when the evidence started mounting.
No one stands a chance alone in the end...only those with strong communal instincts (bye-bye "mountain men"
are going to survive. People who have been raised to doubt the theory of evolution are totally ill-equipped to handle the truth - much like our Neanderthal cousins, who once roamed the Earth with us, we are facing our own extinction, only on a time scale drastically shortened by our own hand.
Unless someone comes up with solutions for REMOVING the CO2 at this point - not just limiting its additional output - the simple physics of light, heat, radiation and retention of these things by gases will settle things for good and all.
