How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points?
www.nytimes.com
Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse.
  • Einar
    2·
    3 months ago

    This article does not encourage urgency at all. Reading this gives me the impression that we still have 100 years - if anything happens at all.

    When it might happen: It could already be underway.

    When it might happen: The timing will vary place to place. The effects on global warming could accumulate over a century or more.

    … and so on.

    But for these particular problems that might be true. Let’s see who will be around to witness all these maybes.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      4·
      3 months ago

      The problem with news is that by convention, every future event without absolute certainty is a “might” or “maybe.” Which works great for future human actions, but not when trying to communicate the urgency of getting off of fossil fuels — these things will happen if we don’t, even if the timing and suddenness is uncertain.