I understand the need for click-bait titles but when the @nytimes asks, 'are we over-reacting to climate change' the answer is NO we are not. Global carbon emissions continue to rise and atmospheric CO2 is higher than any time in human civilization (15 million yrs to be precise).
If you are tempted to counter with, "but the pandemic ...!" please read this thread before you respond:
And if you want to know how truly unprecedented this experiment is that we're conducting with our only home, the home we share with 8 billion other humans and countless more living things, read: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
And if you are going to pull out the hoary old chestnut, 'it's been warmer before! dinosaurs!' give this Global Weirding episode a watch first:
And if you think that scientists have somehow over-exaggerated this issue, let me assure you that no, we have not. In fact, we have low-balled it again and again - and that conclusion is peer reviewed. See: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… and: science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/15/
