Climate scientists now believe their predictions about the rate of the global temperature increase have been too conservative, and stronger and more decisive action is needed to reduce dangerous…
it absolutely won't be the end of human civilization. I imagine something more like the devolution after the end of the roman empire, and then a few millennia of slow progress until a breakthrough.
Warming of, say, 4C is most definitely incompatible with modern human civilization. And we're on a trajectory to get there. Not to mention, even before reaching that level the consequences we'll be enduring will raise tensions between countries immensely, and may lead to global conflicts - and this time around, we have nukes.
it absolutely won't be the end of human civilization. I imagine something more like the devolution after the end of the roman empire, and then a few millennia of slow progress until a breakthrough.
Warming of, say, 4C is most definitely incompatible with modern human civilization. And we're on a trajectory to get there. Not to mention, even before reaching that level the consequences we'll be enduring will raise tensions between countries immensely, and may lead to global conflicts - and this time around, we have nukes.
Not only do we have nukes, but we have at least one country heinously evil enough to pre-emptively use them.
Really? Sounds bad.