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What a lot of people don't realize when they blow off these warnings is the delayed nature of how global warming works. When we emit GHGs into the atmosphere the temperature doesn't instantly rise, but it insulates the Earth and causes more warming over time as the equilibrium state changes.

If we stopped emitting all CO2 today the Earth would continue to get warmer for years or even decades.

Anyway scientists have continuously overstated our probability of changing things when we've shown no signs of slowing down so the fact that we're at the final, final, final warning means we're probably beyond fucked now.