Former head of NASA’s climate group issues dire warning on warming

Not like it even matters at this point. There’s a decades long lag time on CO2 emissions so even if we completely stop today the planet will continue warming for decades.

Not to mention the arctic circle is a literal ticking time bomb that will blow long before the anyways. Methane is literally blasting out from the ground leaving giant craters behind. Methane is 28 times more potent than CO2 when it comes to trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Just look at how countries around the world combatted COVID. Climate catastrophe is going to be magnitudes worse than that and people are still sticking their heads in the sand.

We can't know the percentages, but I suspect a lot of climate disaster deniers simply can't react any other way, for a number of different reasons. Combine denial of disaster with an inability to admit you were wrong, and presto, you get Business as Usual.

IF -- big if -- some shitbag CEO had full knowledge and real understanding that he was personally involved in killing the planet and indirectly all life on earth, you can just jump right back to those same defense mechanisms and find he was probably expecting some hail mary science to save the day eventually.

OOPS

My guess is people can always find someone to tell them what they want to hear. So much easier to be “operating based on the best information you have” than lie knowingly.