It's Too Late On Global Warming. Houston Should Be A Wake Up Call.

[TheMastersNemesis]

One would think that we could roust these deniers. Warming is happening now and will get worsel. Keeping if from being a complete catastrophe is now the challenge. Each day we delay on significant action makes matters worse.

There is no guarantee that the climate will no flip dangerously. The worse may bee sooner than the end of century predictions.

[DK504]

1. I'm glad this is being said out loud.

[Not Ruth]

2. Al Gore tried to tell everyone 20 years ago

[misanthrope]

9. Actual scientists have been talking about it far longer

No one would listen to them either.

[cilla4progress]

3. It's too late is a

Vague and disempowering term.

It's never too late to do all you can to save something you love.

[FreepFryer]

4. Exactly. +1. (n/t)

[TheMastersNemesis]

5. It Actually Can Be Too Late.

We can only guess where a real tipping point might be. Long term projections about climate change could be significantly shorter than we know. There is still time to mitigate the worst results of climate change. We are wasting time with the denial climate.

[cilla4progress]

6. I share your despair

But I refuse to quit doing my part in every way possible or taking a defeatist attitude.

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. I Have Been Doing My Part. No Kids, Have Solar, And Use NO Pesticides In My Garden Et Al.

I do many things to try to mitigate the situation. I have owned two Praises. I really am not in despair. I just get disgusted that the population at large seems so anti environment any more. In Denver the huge trucks are getting bigger and bigger and there are more of them every day.

I just wonder if enough people will wake up and demand a different direction. The election of this administration has been disastrous.

[cilla4progress]

8. I know

Huge losses already underway and will continue no matter what for generations.

Forest fires in Canada; floods in Houston. This IS climate change folks!

Watched Al Gore's new film on Friday. He is such a strong leader on this.

[fallout87]

11. Great movie....

but very upsetting to see the box office numbers. I took the whole family. Why won't people wake up? All they want to spend their money on are stupid hollywood movies. They are perfectly content living in ignorance apparently.

[Not Ruth]

13. There is a momentum to climate change

A slowdown in what we are doing wrong, will not necessarily help or even impact us for decades.

[misanthrope]

10. It's distressing for many to hear this but history isn't kind.

The record of homo sapiens shows a species tragically terrible at proactivity, like it doesn't exist at all. Individuals and small groups have shown capability for it but as a whole, we're basically reactive only and not very smart about that either.

If it's any consolation, you likely won't see the worst of the Anthropocene in your lifetime.

[cilla4progress]

12. I think that's true

Well, evolution marches on. It was a good run, for awhile!

[roamer65]

14. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

[ananda]

15. I've been thinking the same thing.

Sadly

[VOX]

16. Deniers would rather believe that the Obama/Soros "Deep State" is altering weather over Red States.

Wouldn't surprise me at all if that wild leap of total paranoia was actually being tossed about on RW sites.