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Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show
(www.theguardian.com)
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Well they projected it to take a few decades... a few decades ago
Since the 70s. 50 years ago.
Jimmy Carter make a speech about it. Everyone laughed at him and called him a pussy.
And again when al gore warned everyone with uncomfortable truth in 2006
With an Inconvenient* Truth.
An uncomfortable truth would have been in the backseat of a Volkswagen (that's a Mall Rats joke for anyone keeping track at home).
The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in the nineties. But we had lots of time then, so no rush…
Back when I was young and naive I figured the Kyoto Protocol would work. We had lots of time then. The climate change is a hoax thing didn't really take off until the early aughts as I recall.