Weart 9 and reflections

"To be sure, most people thought it would be good to do something about global warming--but not if that would mean changing anything very much." (p. 179)
are we in a similar place with COVID-19 and going back to the way things were?

Increasingly people could see with their own eyes


Senator Gore was the subject of a 2006 documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth"
the press stopped presenting the issue as two equal sides of a debate

by 2005 or so the feedback loops that accelerated warming were becoming measurable

much debate about Arctic ice because the extent varied widely from year to year and different political sides cherry-picked examples, but volume estimates showed a clearer trend (right)

in 2007 IPCC stated human-caused warming was 90 to 99% certain

what will people choose to do about it?

Science is messy, but in that messiness is how the self-correction happens