Permafrost thaw won’t run away with Earth’s climate

[kristopher]

13. We started in 1992 (if not before)

That was the Rio Earth Summit where the international community formally acknowledged the decades of research telling us that the increasing level of GHGs was a problem that we must take action to address.

It takes a lot of time to change the trajectory of a system with the inertia of our fossil fuel energy dependency. Think about planning and executing any large scale project. There is a huge amount of unseen activity that takes place in planning and establishing a supply chain for the elements needed to accomplish actual construction. We are right now at the stage where "construction" is actively commencing around the world. That is a long, long way past the "start" date. We could wish that all the jockeying, bickering and wasted motions weren't part of the picture, butt for good or ill they always have been and always will be.