Cop 26 closed, on a failure.
We have just learned that the climate change and its effect were known 40 years ago and nothing has been done.
The more we wait, the more the consequences will be harsh.
A slight correction 
History of Climate Science
The history of climate science goes back to the early 1900’s. This section contains a chronological listing of relevant climate science discoveries and events related to anthropogenic global warming. The information here was compiled by Spencer Weart
http://ossfoundation.us/projects/environment/global-warming/climate-science-history
It was the 1970’s and '80’s when a lot was happening - then we were handed a stark choice (Carter - engineer mentality v. Reagan - too much is never enough!) that because of media attention on the science every thinking citizen knew damned well that we were dealing with something binding and with existential level consequences down the road. *
The issue was very simple, but the fact that it touched on everything about our lives, it could be made wildly complex.
Still as so often, the bottomline was simple - and nothing in a century and half of science has caste a shred of doubt on the physics and the consequences.
#1) The more CO2 and other greenhouse gases we put into our atmosphere the more heat was going to be held within our global heat and moisture distribution engine.
#2) Our global biosphere is absolutely coupled to global temperatures, and heating this planet was going to turn it into a very inhospitable place for society’s infrastructure and the well being of humans, along with everything else in the biosphere as we’ve know it back then.
It’s not rocket science, it’s simple planetary, and evolutionary reality. The facts were easy to understand. It’s the consequences that flipped out everyone.
Bottomline and part of the public dialogue was that we needed to start thinking in terms of doing more with less; striving to stabilize human’s runaway population growth, and change our attitude toward Earth and human gluttony. Tame down ruthless exploitation and start thinking in terms of nurturing biospheres and learning from nature’s ‘ways and means.’
With the help of an ever escalating and utterly ruthless, dishonest, backstabbing, cut-throat publicity campaigns that ever so successfully steered the discuss away from well understood physical facts and into a fantasy land of whack’a’mole, gish-gallup alternate universe self-delusion. So what else were Americans to do? (Mass amnesia and disconnect from physical reality)
The rest is history. We want too much and we want it now. There will be a price to pay
I’ve been watching us tippy toeing across tipping point after tipping point, in blissful self-imposed ignorance of the immensity Earth systems and the time-scales they operates on.
I always believe we’d do better. It’s really disheartening seeing us, instead, marching back into the late 1930s.
The fellow sells doubt, Boys dreams. I don’t know how he does it but he lives like a king and he dallies and he gathers and he plucks and shines and when the man dances, certainly boys, what else? The piper pays him! Yes sir, yes sir,
yes sir, yes sir.
When the man dances, certainly boys, what else? The piper pays him!
All: Yessssir, Yessssir.
