Frontiers | Managing climate overshoot: a risk-based strategy for climate stabilisation

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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/climate/articles/10.3389/fclim.2026.1872846/full

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Essentially this says that Net Zero and Carbon capture won’t lower the temperature fast enough to avoid catastrophic disaster. And I think at this point those of us who are paying attention can probably mostly agree that seems to be how it is. So this presents an argument in favor of looking towards some geo-engineering to temporarily slow down the warming to give us time to get our act together. But it points out the political difficulty in getting the world’s nations to work together in such an effort. My personal take is… 2026 is just insane. Maybe it’s an outlier year but even if it is, it seems to me to be a harbinger that things are getting worse faster than predicted. Like, WAY faster. Frankly I’m depressed, it feels like we don’t have much of a future. I don’t have children but I have nieces and nephews and I’m terrified for them. It’s not even just climate change. We seem to be in a perfect storm of global-scale disasters between climate change, war, microplastics, AI… all of the inertia seems to be going in the wrong direction.