From irrelevant slowness to lightning speed

Climate change is moving at a human time scale that makes it almost irrelevant to most people.

The reality, which they can’t see in a way that people understand and so judge most things, is moving, in a geological sense, like lightning.

That creates manifest difficulties, not the least being the bringing to the public findings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The need for even-handedness, fairness, agreement on complicated wordings, and the constant review and revision of findings takes so long, a delay worsened by procrastination and debate, can make reality and the actual report seem like only remote relations.

A story published by the World Resources Institute headed: “9 Significant Scientific Findings too Recent to Be Included in the New IPCC Report” highlights that difficulty.