According to a top UK scientist, before we can prevent a worldwide disaster, we must acknowledge how awful things are.
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Hothouse Earth, the most recent book by Bill McGuire, couldn't have been out at a better time.
This week, it will be available in stores where it will be browsed by hot customers who have just experienced record-breaking high temperatures across the UK and now fear weeks of drought to add to their misery, as per The Guardian.
McGuire, an emeritus professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London, thinks that this is just the beginning.
People have - for far too long - disregarded unequivocal warnings that rising carbon emissions are gravely warming the Earth, as he made clear in his harsh description of the impending climate catastrophe.
Now that people have become complacent, they will pay for it with storms, floods, droughts, and heat waves that will easily transcend the extremes of the past.
McGuire contended that the most important issue is that there is no longer any way for people to prevent a dangerous, all-pervasive climatic breakdown.
A future where deadly heatwaves and temperatures above 50C (120F) are common in the tropics, where summers at temperate latitudes will always be scorching hot, and where the oceans are doomed to become heated and acidic is what we may expect now that people have crossed the point of no return.
According to McGuire, a child born in 2020 will face a significantly more hostile world than its grandparents faced.
The volcanologist, who served on the UK government's Natural Hazard Working Group, adopts an extreme stance in this regard.
The majority of other climate specialists continue to believe that although there isn't much time left, people can still make significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
They assert that the reversal of global warming and a rapid transition to net zero is yet possible.
Those allegations are refuted by McGuire.
He said that he is aware of numerous climate scientists who speak in public but act very differently in private.
They are all much more afraid of the future people face in private than they are in public, but they won't say it.
This is what he refers to as climate appeasement, and he thinks it simply makes matters worse.
Before people can begin hope to start tackling the situation, the world has to realize how bad things are going to get.
Major climatic changes have already been triggered by humans, and further changes are currently in the works, as per NASA.
However, the rise in global temperatures would start to level out within a few years if we stopped producing greenhouse gases right away.
Then, for many centuries to come, temperatures would level but would still be very high.
Between what we do and when we feel it, there is a little lag of fewer than ten years.
Even though the consequences of human activity on the climate of Earth to date are irreversible on the timescale of humans alive now, every little bit of future temperature increase avoided results in less warming that would otherwise endure for virtually forever.
On the same timetable as the political actions that result in those reductions, the advantages of lower greenhouse gas emissions also happen.
However, it might still be possible to prevent or mitigate some of the worst consequences of climate change.
Adapting to climate change will require a two-tiered strategy.
Reducing the amount of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere is known as mitigation.
Learning to live with and adapt to the already-in-motion climate change is what is meant by adaptation.
