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20 years ago when I was doing my PhD I became friends with a bunch of climatologists as our offices were next to each other. Their view was that the model is always lagging behind, because we first need to observe the effect to include it into the model.

So whatever the model is telling us, the things will get worse faster than that. If the model is saying that 2 degC increase is safe, that's probably not true and we should aim for 1.5. We already burned through 1 degC increase, so things are not looking good.

I guess the truth does hurt.

As long as that climate action being taken doesn't mean more communism.

What happens after 2 degC?

You have to learn yoga - so you can bend over and kiss your ass goodbye

You use communism like a three-year-old uses the word "poo-poo" except that three-year-old actually understands the meanings of the word she is using.

It is impossible ever to have any sort of adult conversation about these matters when giggling and deliberately ignorant simpletons spent all their time screaming lies and insanity.

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Nature doesn't make deals with us and she isn't interested in our politics or our financial constructs.

We either play by her rules and change our society to them or we will face extinction. It is pretty simple.

Right now capitalism is the biggest threat to a lot of needed changes because individuals are profiting from destroying our enviroment. They will try everything to prolong the status quo, because not only do they profit from it but also the shareholders.

So we either have to regulate them asap and as hard as possible, forbid stuff by law or politics around the world have to make state takeovers of these companies. And btw we are missing the time for small changes because the same companies knew about the needed changes for decades and instead of decreasing the enviromental damage they increased it for profits.

It's about the positive feedback loops, as it gets warmer more ice and permafrost melts, lowering the albedo, releasing trapped Carbon as CO2 or CH4 etc

If there’s a god who only understands his own plan let’s hope it’s not through the eyes of the things we kill he’s seeing.

This article points out, once again, the need to move as quickly as we can to decarbonize our civilization. But we have already baked in a fair bit of change and it is going to be challenging, given all our other impacts on the biosphere, to get through the bottleneck of the next century and begin the long easing toward a sustainable civilization.

In the longer term, we can see a way for humans to flourish on this planet and to allow all our non-human relatives to flourish as well. But it will take a paradigm shift to get there. Perhaps something like the one described in the Aspen Proposal. www.aspenproposal.org

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I have created images for two separate lists of feedback loops from the Supp materials of this paper.

The first is comprised of 20 physical (abiotic) feedback loops and 21 biological feedback loops.

The second — which isn't really discussed in the main text — consists of 15 Human-Climate Feedback Loops