Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than Expected, and It’s More Extreme
...human-caused emissions will lead to bigger impacts on heat and extreme weather, and much sooner than expected
..if we had really been concerned, we would have taken this last election to act..
..and now it's most evident we're not going to be making meaningful change in time..
..the leadership in charge at the moment does not have the spine to go up against the oligarchs bribing them and leading them on, and so our fate is sealed..
..ten more years of this.. twenty at the most, and miracles will be necessary..
..there was a candidate that could have started enacting the changes needed, but his party was shortsighted and would not heed the message, and get behind the progressive cause..
..money without wisdom always makes bad decisions.. why so many with it are not capable of such insight is a question for the ages..
..civilizations before us have come to similar ends.. but this time the scale will be unmatched in human history..
..there are billions of us, and no way to guess how many, if any, will pull through.. and what their life will be like in a very dubious future..
..but getting there is going to be long, and hell-on-earth.. many of those futuristic films we've been watching for all these years will have been windows into our future..
.."the most ominous risks of surprises like "tipping points" or "compound extremes"—sucker punches, combination punches, and even knockout punches...the more climate changes, the greater the potential for these...
...uncertainty is not our friend... we are seeing increases in extreme weather going well beyond what has been predicted or projected in the past... we're learning that there are factors we were not previously aware of that may be magnifying the impacts of human-caused climate change"
.."increasingly, science suggests many of the impacts are occurring earlier and with greater amplitude than was predicted..
...there should be more monitoring of global warming impacts, but all those programs are threatened under the current administration.. continued funding to support research is critical.. and here, again, we encounter a very unfavorable political environment where fossil fuel-beholden politicians that run the White House and Congress are doing everything they can to defund and suppress research on climate change science and impact assessments."
... "climate change threatens us all, regardless of political affiliation... with serious consequences for people and the ecosystems of the only planet that can support us."
..we are nothing short of.. 'very serious trouble'.. and as every time-frame gets shortened, eventually there comes an end.. and none is left for us..
