> Methinks our current path has been determined since ~1980, with ~2000 probably being the last chance we had to stay under 1.5C.

That's why I said "I realized this back in the 1990s" and was later complaining about Al Gore.

> Otherwise I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. Is that reasonable?

This is not like nuclear war—which could still happen, because we still have the weapons, and the madmen to use them—where we're all going to die tomorrow. We're already seeing the effects—as the submitted article shows—but the worst is yet to come. We're cursing our descendants with a world much more hostile than the one we were born into, for no other reason than greed and selfishness. It's the ultimate betrayal of the future. (By the way, I'm a human and deliberately chose to use em dashes, because I felt like it.)

The best thing to happen for global warming in recent years was not the Biden administration but actually the pandemic, because it significantly cut industrial output for an extended time.