[b_emery]

It's time for the dialog to move on from 'proving climate change', to what 'we're going to do about it'.

[sdfignaionio]

Global heating has been thought to be occurring for longer than anyone has been alive. It's been proven beyond any shadow of a doubt for over forty years. There is no way for a disinterested person to look at the evidence and conclude this is anything other than a man-made crisis. Problem is a whole lot of the public doesn't care about the truth.

I don't know how a democratic society can deal with half its population living in a fantasy world. My guess is it cannot.

[undersuit]

This is part of it. We must beat the drum continuously to drown out those making their own music.

We're all going to be bonked on the head with this info literally and figuratively until long after we attempt to implement any solutions.

Yet, if you don't keep the drum beat up then you start hearing the people not playing along, chanting Tonga, fake news, and solar warming.

[hotpotamus]

From my study of the issue and of human nature, I've come to the conclusion that we're going to "get our kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames", to borrow the words of Jim Morrison.

[toomuchtodo]

Do what you can where you are with what you have, but also try to prepare so that when people start dying you’re not one of them.

Clean energy and net zero trajectories are improving, but we’re experiencing today decisions from decades ago. Things are going to get worse before they get better.