It is said reality does not cease to be reality just because people are uncomfortable in what it shows.
I have posted a piece from the National Geographic about birds and how cats are killing billions of them. In the end the writer stated: "If we give up on seemingly unresolveable problems, the world will grow more miserable, not less so." I agree and agree with your premise. I have a paper I just downloaded that says basically what you are saying. if you want I can send it.

This world is already miserable. I haven't "given up", BUT I also accept the inevitability of the eventual outcome.
What needs to be done, will not be done.
I saw the National Geographic piece.
We are in agreement.

We may have already passed one tipping point, that is, the collapsing of the West Antarctica ice shelf.
It will be decades before it collapses, but once the collapse starts it does not uncollapse. There is another tipping point that we are approaching, maybe in about 10 years, and that is the melting of the permafrost. There is a flipping from the heat reflection of the melting ice over the permafrost to the heat absorption of the underlying permafrost, full of CO2 and methane, which becomes self-sustaining past a certain point.

@Heraclitus I am of the opinion that the sink holes in Kamchatka Peninsula signaled a tipping point a while ago.

@OwlInASack I'm kind of hoping for some dormant bacteria to be released from the melting permafrost. I've read a couple of different articles about it.
I'm more convinced than ever that we'll be the architects of our own extinction.
We're nearly there.

@KKGator The piece I have did not come from National Geographic.

@JackPedigo I understood that. Thanks.

@OwlInASack Yes, I know. Tipping point means a point of no return regardless of what we do. It's like something tipping over and falling. It does not un-fall.

@powder Not the entire collapse of the West Antarctica glaciers and ice shelf. Some climate scientists estimate this could take over 200 years for the collapse to complete. But, with amplifying feedback mechanisms it is likely to happen sooner. It is massive and when it does it could add several feet to sea level rise in and of itself.

@BirdMan1 I've seen video of the Kamkatcha sinkholes and I certainly understand why you might think so, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we have reached a global tipping point yet. Hope not, since tipping point means it is irreversible and we are all in deep peanut butter regardless of what we do.

grrrrrr so much to fix and so little time

Those damn Chinese did this hoax he said - you have to be impressed by how well the hoax is wreaking havoc.

The only hoax regarding him is his having become president!

It's already too late.
"Real change" isn't going to happen in time to prevent what's coming.
Once the really bad stuff starts happening, it'll be too late to do anything
about it.
There won't be any "safe" place for the rich to move to.
Their time will run out, just like everyone else's.

No matter how much wealth and money the rich have stashed away it won't be worth a teaspoon of shit because no-one can eat money when there are no longer crops to harvest, air to breathe and water to drink.

@Triphid the science fiction syndrome. Many humans are going to hang on, if they don't start lobbing nucs. Things will just be really fucked up like death and dying accelerating and surpassing the plagues.

@Beowulfsfriend not quite SciFi since we ARE polluting the rivers and oceans at really high level and rate, pumping Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide, Sulfur Dioxide, etc, into the atmosphere art rates and levels almost as bad as the were during the Siberian Traps episode that occurred millions of years before the dinosaurs evolved.
Sulfur Dioxide rises right to very edge of the atmospheric shell and combines there to form a Reflective style blanket that blots out and reflects the heat and light from the sun which then causes flora to die since it can not perform photosynthesis without sunlight, plus the Sulfur dioxide eventually forms into Acid Rain which also kills ALL plant life and sterilses the soil as well as making water toxic and killing marine life into the bargain.
If you don't believe then I suggest you do a wee bit more research.

@Triphid I totally believe things are falling apart. I don't believe the humans in charge will do anything until it is way late - probably too late. As far as research, the biggest danger, in my mind, is a release of gasses in the oceans wiping out much of the Earth's living creatures. By sci fi syndrome, I meant the people don't believe til it occurs or think some unknown element of science will save us at the last moment.

@Beowulfsfriend WE are the ONLY ones who can save ourselves and the planet, and in my opinion and observations for the last 40 years, we ARE close to, if not at, the tipping point.
And once the delicate balance of nature and climate, etc, is thrown out there is NO return point.

You are reading the same data as I am but I think the danger of clathrates and melting permafrost is not being properly accounted for.

Yep, while the Hillsong version of Emperor Nero sits, mumbles, dithers, frets over his NEW changes to the Religious Freedoms Bill that they are putting to Parliament Australia burns, Volunteer Firie's families are going short on money because P.M. Happy Clappy refuse their pleas for financial assistance on the grounds that " they wanted to be there," and merely offers up 'prayers and thoughts' which about as much use as chocolate Teapot.
Don't lynch him, instead drag the ENTIRE Parliament out by the hair, give them a shovel, rake and a fire hose and MAKE them help fight the fires on EXACTLY the terms and conditions, etc, that the Volunteer Firies have to endure.

"Religion spoils everything."

@Bushshaker Curious. What do you think NOAA has lied about?

I think the ONLY climate Humpty tRumpty ever worries about is the Financial Climate surrounding his wealth and investments, otherwise, everything else means ZILCH to that Orange-crested Buffoon.

a) anecdote is not data
b) I'm hoping you realize that what you call "doom sayers" includes a lot of climate scientists !

@FearlessFly So. The water levels are rising here in Florida, even though the measrurements indicate other wise? And have not the 'doomsayers' not been saying that by this day and age that I should be under 20ish feet of water. Hmmmm. Yup, they have. And as far as Climate Scientists. Quite a few indeed have predicted for a LONG while that most of our coastal regions would be under water even as soon as a decade or so ago. Again, don't get me wrong, i have no quarels with the fact that climate change is real, and needs to be addressed. But to the levels of what I would call, again. 'Doom sayers". their predictions have not come to fruition by a long shot. Also. Just because 'a LOT' of Scientists 'predict' something, that doesn't make it so. Do you know how many Scientists predicted that the result of an atomic explosion, would take the world with it. Or how many predicted that anti matter would create a black hole that would envelope the entire earth. All I mean on that is saying that a 'bunch' of people think a certain way, does not make it true.. oh and since you like emotes so well. here are a few right back at you.

[miamiherald.com] Rising sea levels are already affecting Florida.

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your [citation needed]

Exactly as it shold be. With no natural predators to prey on us, nature needs some mechanism by which to cull our numbers. If it's not climate change or some other natural disaster, it would be a global pandemic.

Sooner or later, something has to kill us off in large numbers to restore balance.

Gradual rise as has been occurring for last centuries. Threat now is loss of crops to colder clime. That has started as a result of the Maunder Minimum of the sun. NASA recode the temp change. The sunspots this year were almost nonexistent. Supposedly leaving a 400 year warm cycle. BTW what is the CO2 percent of atmosphere? But, who knows for sure. Large banks, big money etc have not stopped investing in areas you are talking about. So, whatever is happening will take a long time.