After many years of watching and observing, I feel that the odds of the human race taking sufficiently meaningful proactive measures to diminish global warming will not occur until well after enough dramatic climate change events and weather patterns imbue even the most ardent science denier with enough fear for reactive measures to be initiated. Bipartisan measures can be taken, but unfortunately, the greenhouse gases already in the biosphere will remain to haunt us for ages. Hopefully, this will come to pass before a self sustaining feedback loop of carbon dioxide and methane release establishes itself, which would occur once oceanic methane hydrate gasification enters the feedback loop.
So, understand me when I say that I find any disruption of civilization’s consumption of fossil fuels to be the ‘silver lining’ in what are calamities otherwise. [If we, as a species, cannot take sufficient positive action, then negative consequenes will necessarily increasingly manifest in the world.]
https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/climate-change/
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-03-greenhouse-gases.html
https://m.phys.org/news/2016-01-abandon-coal-oil-climate-disaster.html
