And the Antarctic ice figure is even more severe. The trend is quite stark.

I dunno dude.. They all just get progressively worse.

I honestly don't think they've really thought that far ahead.

They know they'll be better off than everyone else and I guess that's enough.

And they're dragging us all down with them. That's the most pissing part.

Did you consider that it might be good for humanity to lock our billionaires into bunkers? We should lock them in in order for us to survive.

The difference is marginal: just a matter on which side you place the door handles.

They will probably mostly survive. But then they'll realise that all productive and smart people are dead and their money is worthless in the new world.

i get the sense that they cannot control their thirst for power. it's like trying to wrestle away a bottle of booze from a drunk. they'll make whatever excuses are necessary to convince themselves that this is the way it has to be and they need more.

I suspect they might be afraid of people, not of climate.

that's how it goes. we're in this transformation but most people don't notice it because they experience the world and things seem to be ok (for now, or they are distracted by some other insignificant thing), and this is not even mentioning the economic and political obstacles that block any meaningful change.

I think the likely scenario is people won't seriously start to be concerned (and by serious i mean taking proactive steps across their individual and social lives) until this situation further develops and it will be a bit too late. I hope i'm wrong.

Well that's grim.

Scientists like Michael Mann are trying very hard to not create so much panic that people give up and stop trying to end fossil fuel use. But this article is definitely panic inducing lol.

"Tumble" does not mean "occur rapidly" here. It means "broken". When a world record is broken, it falls or tumbles. These are climate world records, like "hottest day ever".

It will probably be a drawn out process that's hurts real bad.

No. But many will. And we'll start seeing mass migration surges within the next decade from countries more drastically impacted.

No, but catastrophic collapse (over many years) is possible IMO.

As in a return to pre-industrial tech.

No; at least, that's unlikely. But parts of the world that are currently habitable will be made inhabitable, and biodiversity will continue to fall. We'll likely see more extreme weather events, increased migration from areas that are too hot or underwater, and issues with global food supply. Coral reefs may completely disappear.

However, progress is being made, and while it's not as quick as we'd like, carbon emissions for modern economies like the US and EU are on a downward curve. In 2021 EU's carbon emissions were back to pre-1967 levels, while the US's carbon emissions were back to pre-1979 levels (Source). So there's cause for hope; the worst thing we can do is give up. Everything we do now lessens the scale of the problem in future.

There's no way the climate crisis entirely wipes out humanity. However, we could be looking at a Mad Max style future.