| Chris Hu said: At this point there isn't really much we can do about it. The only way to reverse these trends instantaneously is if one of the supervolcano's would have a massive eruption but that would cause another set of massive problems. |
I don't think it's too late to do anything about it. It might be too late to prevent any negative effects of climate change, but it's not too late to prevent the worst possible effects.
Taking serious action now might mean the difference between warming that merely raises the oceans a meter or two and warming that shuts down the deep sea conveyor, triggering a massive release of poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas that causes mass extinctions around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian-Triassic_extinction_event#Hydrogen_sulfide_emissions
Put another way, while we may not have a choice but to live with global warming, I think we have a choice between global warming which costs civilization a lot, global warming which destroys civilization as we know it, and global warming which destroys the human race.
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