Claude Sonnet 5Nov 114 citations
Is it too late to reverse climate change?
Short answer: It depends on what you mean by "reverse"
Climate scientists generally reject a simple yes/no framing, but the nuanced reality is sobering:
Some damage is already permanent
Even if every country stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow, the warming already caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would not significantly decrease for at least 1,000 years, because as CO2 slowly leaves the