''The reality is that, as far as we know, and in the natural...

''The reality is that, as far as we know, and in the natural course of events, our world has never — in its entire history — heated up as rapidly as it is doing now. ''

IMO - what is missing mostly is what the heating of the planet 'means'

the cc debate of 'meaning' of what happens when it gets warm faster --------- is clouded by 'why' is it happening - enter the Co2 debate - which is where most people land in the room and get stuck shouting at each other.

If people backed off and looked at what a 'rapidly' warming world means - and looked closer than their infantile -

Co2 is plant food and warm is good etc etc -------- and asked - well, what will it mean if it gets too hot, too fast -

THEN the real meaning and picture becomes clear -

and frightening? ---------- well, it kinda depends on if you think major+++++++ changes to society are scary or not

if one thinks that coastal inundation in say Australia - will displace most of the capital city residential property and more ------------ if one thinks that kind of change is scary -

then, one better get scared fast - because that's a real potential high risk.

So, what's the low risk - what might happen and we don't have such change?

Well, what will for sure happen is the top bit of the world will ice over - and before we get major inundation (and why will it ice over because it gets hot? because enough fresh water will hit the oceans and the AMOC will stop - as it has already many times)

so what ------- what will that mean for Oz? - because Oz will probably be ok when the top bit gets cold -

well, what it means is that a huge+++ % of the worlds population will be on the move -climate refugees --------- and possibly billions of them, certainly hundreds of millions -

so for Oz it means ----------- LOTS and LOTS of new people - and, no - there won't be a snowballs chance in hell of stopping them ---------- so Oz will go from it's little population - it will have population growth that makes what we have atm look like nothing

where will they go? - well, I think we'll see entire cities rise from nothing - maybe some provincial cities become very very large cities - and it will all need building - and water and power etc

so, the world heating up is one thing ------------ what it means? is totally another story.

And will it be far off in never never time - like next century? Well, that's what we might all get to hear about in the next 24 months ---------- and the news might be very dramatic

we wait