"Human beings have a natural optimism bias. For most of our species' history, this bias has served us well, helping us persevere in the face of overwhelming odds. But when it comes to the climate crisis, our natural optimism could be our undoing."
"In recent years, Dr. Hansen has argued that the scientific consensus, as reflected in the voluminous reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), greatly underestimates the rate and magnitude of future warming. Earlier this month, he and 17 colleagues forcefully stated their case in a peer-reviewed paper, Global Warming in the Pipeline, published by a University of Oxford journal. I'd rank it as the most important scientific article I've read in the past decade."
"If Dr. Hansen and his colleagues are right, the received wisdom of today's supposedly informed climate cognoscenti - people such as David Wallace-Wells of The New York Times - is substantially wrong. Mr. Wallace-Wells and others tell us, with evident relief, that warming will likely peak som"
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