Claude Sonnet 5Oct 411 citations
Is it too late to reverse climate change?
Short answer: It's complicated — "too late" depends on what you mean by "reverse"
If "reverse" means going back to pre-industrial temperatures or undoing all damage: Yes, that's effectively off the table for centuries. Climate reversal would occur in phases: temperatures would stabilize 10-40 years after reaching net-zero emissions, but actually reducing global temperatures back to pre-industria