"Climate change is here — and worse than we thought" - James Hansen, WP blog post

[AverageJoe90]

47. I don't just think I'm correct on humanity not going extinct, I KNOW I am.

For God's sakes, man. Humanity is NOT going to go extinct. You see? This is the kind of attitude that helps no-one but the very people we're fighting against. This is one more part of the reason why we're having problems getting things done, when we could be sitting down and telling people, "Look, no, humanity is not going to go extinct, nor is Earth going to turn into Venus. We are, however, in serious danger of losing much of our polar ice, and the flooding of many coastal cities that will surely come with it, as well as more weather extremes of all kinds, and the fact that hundreds of millions of people could die from famine in many parts of the world.", or something like that. No overtly rosy outlook like that of many skeptics(both genuine and fake), nor none of this equally naive gloom-and-doom, humanity-going-extinct or Earth-turning-into-Venus garbage.

I apologize for coming off as a little harsh but I, too, realize, just how serious this problem is, as well as being rather angered at the fact that our governments continue to sit on their hind quarters and stall. And if you think for one second I'm being too optimistic, I seriously doubt that many, or even most of the world's coastal cities having to be relocated and hundreds of millions, maybe even one or two+ billion dying from famine, perhaps somewhat exacerbated by wars and domestic violence, is any sort of optimistic, but rather, a reality-based scenario of what is most likely to happen(3-5*C increase), and I am taking EVERY factor into account here, including the possibility of methane and other local, regional, and global feedbacks.