The good news is that there is no evidence to support the notion that we are currently facing runaway climate change or the inevitability of an unlivable future. Once emissions start to stabilize, temperature follows suit. Sometimes this message is misunderstood by doomers and nonexpert commentators, so it is worth being clear about what the science has to say. The IPCC report explains that every single metric ton of carbon dioxide we prevent from entering the atmosphere lessens the severity of the impacts we bake into the system. Our assessment meticulously describes how every fraction of a
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