It is also highlighted with a great deal of ‘probably’, ‘plausible’ and ‘potential’ underlined by ‘we don’t know’ and ‘the science is just too new, and besides we’ll never know for sure until it happens.’ (direct quotes)

Yet here’s the disturbing part: the tone is that this is as serious as cancer; a direct threat to all life on the planet, “food production, extinction… and inundation of coastal cities”.

Imagine for a moment if you thought you might be sick.

You went to your doctor and his analysis of your problem was along the same line as the scientists in this article. (like, swap the word ‘climate’ for the word ‘cancer’, and change the metaphor). “Not sure what the problem is, have a few ideas, could be one of seven game changing diseases, each one hidden in distinctly different parts of your body.”

He doesn’t know what your problem is, exactly, but he recommends an invasive, potentially disfiguring procedure, and demands cash in an amount that might bankrupt you financially.

To top it all off, he would never have done this surgery before – and, he’s actually aware that his tinkering with your system might be the very tipping point that awoke the ’sleeping giant’ of cataclysmic destruction!

Not only would your doctor not be very helpful, but you sure as heck wouldn’t agree to surgery – would you??

I think that’s an apt metaphor of the situation. And, I think, there are a lot of people who don’t want bureaucrats and politicians to take out the scalpels for all sorts of very legitimate reasons.