"What we really need is a change of those sources of emissions where individual consumers are not empowered to make choices — utility-sourced green energy, availability of more efficient appliances and electric cars, efficient and pleasant mass transit investments, and more efficient ways of heating and cooling buildings, moving goods, getting to work and doing our work. And for that, we need the creative energy of concerned citizens to focus on bigger issues than personal carbon footprint."

I could not agree more. Now is the time to organize, activate, and VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT.

We are out of time , Climate Change is happening now in "fast forward".

Here's what Dr. James Hansen and others state.

Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change implies that fast-feedback equilibrium climate sensitivity is at least ~4°C for doubled CO2 (2xCO2), with likely range 3.5-5.5°C.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) climate forcing is 4.1 W/m2 larger in 2021 than in 1750, equivalent to 2xCO2 forcing.

Global warming in the pipeline is greater than prior estimates. Eventual global warming due to today's GHG forcing alone -- after slow feedbacks operate -- is about 10°C.

Human-made aerosols are a major climate forcing, mainly via their effect on clouds. We infer from paleoclimate data that aerosol cooling offset GHG warming for several millennia as civilization developed.

A hinge-point in global warming occurred in 1970 as increased GHG warming outpaced aerosol cooling, leading to global warming of 0.18°C per decade.

Aerosol cooling is larger than estimated in the current IPCC report, but it has declined since 2010 because of aerosol reductions in China and shipping. Without unprecedented global actions to reduce GHG growth, 2010 could be another hinge point, with global warming in following decades 50-100% greater than in the prior 40 years.

Hansen states that warming since 2014 has accelerated to 0.36C/decade. That's 2C of warming in the next 60 years.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04474

Hansen's latest "Global Warming in the pipeline" study.

In the face of that everything else is rapidly becoming meaningless.

If we do not declare a "Planetary Emergency" and start an immediate program of Carbon Drawdown and Emissions Reduction. Then the next 50 years are going to be us, slagging ourselves back to a Paleolithic population level living around the Arctic Circle.