It has been an all-out emergency for decades. Always with 6-12 years left before it's too late.
Climate change is well past the cried wolf threshold.
Climate change is well past the cried wolf threshold.
In reality, climate science has gone from somewhat uncertain (around 1995: Kyoto) to progressively more certain as measurements have confirmed modellable outcomes.
Our need to change our behaviors has been increasingly important for the past few decades, it's only become an all-out emergency more recently as it's become painfully more obvious that large amounts of humanity are unwilling to change our economic preferences even when faced with obliberation.
1970s: ICE AGE coming!
1988: NASA said, A gradual rise in average sea level is threatening to completely cover all Indian ocean nations in the next 30 years. The maldives will have its drinking water supplies dry up by 1992.
1989: UN said rising seas could obliteration nations.
1989: NASA said, NYC's west side highway will be under water by 2019
>You appear to be making up your own narrative here.
I'm not making up anything.
Climate change proponents sure do seem to lie in their predictions though and boy do people get upset when you call it out.
Like, years ago did you know florida mostly went under water destroying basically all of florida? Al Gore said it will happen for sure.
When I search this I don't get a link to a prediction by NASA. Can you please cite your sources? And preferably their sources? I can see a possibility of cherry-picked quotes from the most pessimistic end of a range of scenarios and predictions. I can also see the possibility of someone maliciously attributing the prediction of another to NASA in order to smear NASA.
As an aside, I'll remind you that in the story the wolf ultimately did come, and the herd and boy were both lost.
Within any scientific discipline there is a broader consensus and there are more bold exceptional claims on both the high and low points. One could safely argue the consensus view on this topic has been moving too slowly.