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Its far too late to do anything about it now.
We discuss it now because we can actually see the black dust settling upon the Artic ice and snows,....absorbing more of the Suns heat...to ultimately turn the Artic to sea water.
You have taken away the Fridge-freezer in your 'home'.
Now you must accept that since the World will now get two degrees warmer. You have to realise that the warmer air will hold trillions of tons, more Water vapour up there.
With proportionate increases in Tornadoes, Cyclones, huge rainfalls and floodings.
We all need to accept the blame for this terrible future scenario, and at least warn and teach, our children of the consequences.
And we can also take steps to cushion the consequences, attenuate that terrible future, and ameliorate our blame. We can undo much of the climate heating that is "locked in" to that future scenario. We can't "cut" our way out of these problems, but we can "grow" our way into a new frontier, the rhizosphere. There is a sustainable way forward into the future!
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Soils store thousands of gigatonnes of labile carbon, and soils exchange over 100 gigatonnes of carbon yearly... and we currently manage soils with little regard to carbon loss. So we have an opportunity to intentionally manage soil carbon--shifting the naturally occurring agricultural annual flux by just a few percent--to compensate for our 10 gigatonnes of annual emissions. Basically it is utilizing photosynthesis to pull excess oxidized carbon from our atmosphere, and feed more root exudates to the soil. [...just search rhizosphere, and/or "root exudates"]
Pursuing this path for several generations will allow future generations to restore the Arctic Ice Cap, and thus maintain mid-latitude, temperate-climate parameters; hopefully before tropical conditions establish new evolutionary trends in the mid-latitudes.
Biosequestration, enriching soil carbon, offers a 10-fold type of advantage over cutting emissions. Soil-based biosequestration has the capacity to offset current emissions and suck down past emissions, restoring the balance between oxidized carbon in the air (CO2) and organic carbon in the soil (humus, rhizomes, etc.). Plus, co-benefits realized through restoring enriched soils also help solve many socioeconomic problems, health problems, and ecosystem resource problems--most of the Millennium Development Goals and Food Security Steps.
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