The world’s most famous climate scientist just outlined an alarming scenario for our planet’s future

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4. We are the frog in the pot of water, "It's just a little hotter. It's just a little hotter...."

The longer we wait to take decisive action on a global level to deal with climate change:

1. The problem gets worse every year, we talk about it but do little or nothing. Eventually the 'pot' boils.
2. We eventually decide as a global community to do something. The longer we wait, the more costly and problematic any potential 'solution' will be.

Too many of us - and certainly most politicians who have a 4-year time horizon at most - don't want to worry about what will probably happen years down the road, maybe even after we are dead. Many conservatives talk about the world we hand our children and grandchildren when it comes to national debt but not when it comes to climate change, perhaps because of where that 'concern' might lead us in terms of policy changes.