Understand here that the scope of this report is mainly concerned about things as related to carbon dioxide levels. And looking at it from that perspective, as we see increases in that currently, the timeline suggested is what it would take to reach concentration levels as seen in the previous time period mentioned.

And even if we just left our sights limited in this fashion, there would be very little to be encouraged about here; not only because every time they take a new inventory, and try to do so with more descriptive data points, over a greater world wide area, the picture always seems to get worse, as far as the rate is concerned. Cocommitent. I suppose, to policies like ours currently, where old commitments to limit are either being ignored, or outright repealed, as we enter a new, much more dangerous, phase of electrically amplified, world competition; whereas these are the really dangerous ones now for not only markets, but resource, and military dominance.

But the fact is we cannot limit ourselves in this fashion. And that is because there are other greenhouse gases to be concerned with, of which, certainly, methane is the most disconcerting. And whether it is from cow farts, or manure, which a lot of it is, or from the defrosting of vast tracts of either formerly frozen over lakes, or centuries of tundra always kept tightly covered by a layer of permafrost; or even stuff in the ocean beds that much warmer water might free up, hardly matters. In the end what you end up with is a cascading effect nobody is going to be able to fully predict before it fully unfolds.

In the light of that, how can all of humanity do anything but assume the very worst right now. And then hope for the best as we actually acknowledge just how dire things are, and start acting accordingly.

If you do not think that this will take us mobilizing to confront, as well as the rest of the developed world, you are sadly mistaken. Just as mistaken as believing money will be anything other than a major impediment to actually accomplishing anything.

As I have said before, when it comes to climate change now it is always a case of it being "half past later than you think." Time is going to be telling a very sad tale indeed if we do not wake up soon.