Half of the anthropogenic CO2 has been emitted in the last 25 years, and emissions continue to accelerate. We can pretend it isn't happening, we can ridicule o

Half of the anthropogenic CO2 has been emitted in the last 25 years, and emissions continue to accelerate. We can pretend it isn't happening, we can ridicule older predictions for not being precise to the day or year, or we can acknowledge that study after study increases the weight of evidence. Evidence that makes abundantly clear we should have started doing something decades ago. Even the oil companies had their own internal predictions of severe climate change back in the 70s and 80s. Prediction is always going to be an imprecise science, but that does not invalidate it in the slightest. Edit: The prediction you highlight still looks sound. "entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000". We didn't reverse the trend by 2000 and it still seems inevitable that the Maldives are on borrowed time. http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/history_legacy/keeling_curve_lessons http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/history_legacy/keeling_curve_less... https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/