We Were Warned

Back in the mid 80s when i began joining the Environmentalists in making people alert on Climate Change, there wasn't that many people who  argued against it. Well, they couldn't argue against the science as the evidence for a warming climate was conclusive and almost every scientist who wasn't in the pay of the fossil fuel lobby agreed but the more denser amongst us wanted to rage against something because they saw saving the planet as a Green, lefty thing.
They tried denying it but couldn't so they tried to deny it was man made and the climate changes over time anyway but again science proved that was rubbish and recently there has been the view that it is happening and nothing we can do about it anyway but the latest thing is raging against Net Zero.
Interestingly when i have queried these people exactly what Net Zero is they don't actually know, just parrot fashion repeating what loonies like Nigel Farage of Reform UK is saying, the same Reform UK that received £2.3 million from oil and gas interests which could explain why they are keen to rubbish anything that their paymasters feel will harm their profits  
The moronic useful idiots then have jumped upon a bandwagon that will see some businesses continue to make obscene profits while the World literally burns and what would otherwise be amusing it it was so catastrophic, they don't even understand why.
For the hard of thinking, Climate Change is the direct result of there being too much Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere so we must stop emitting more and even remove some of it and that could be through mass tree planting and carbon capture devices that suck out carbon dioxide from the air so if we deploy carbon dioxide removal techniques at the same time as reducing our burning of fossil fuels, we can slow global warming.
Hopefully around the middle of this century we will achieve 'net zero' which is  the point at which emissions of greenhouse gases are balanced by technologies removing them from the atmosphere.
The first mention i could find of Climate Change was in 1824 when French physicist Joseph Fourier warned of the Earth's natural 'greenhouse effect' and in 1861 the Irish physicist John Tyndall showed that certain gases such as Carbon create the greenhouse effect.
In 1958 Environmental scientists begins measurements of atmospheric CO2 and show that at 315ppm, CO2 concentrations are rising and in 1965 (320 ppm) a US President's Advisory Committee panel warned that the greenhouse effect 'is a matter of real concern' and in 1990, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report said with CO2 at 354 ppm, temperatures have risen by 0.3-0.6C over the last century due to humanity's emissions.
Since then we have been through numerous Earth Summit's, Kyoto Protocols, Climate Change Conferences and Environmental agreements but still the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere continues to grow and each wasted year meant humanity was rapidly running out of time.
If we had acted on the first warning at the time, we would have been able to decarbonise our societies at a rate of around 2% a year to limit warming to no more than 1.5°C and if Governments had acted in 1861, 1958 or even 1990 then we would have had a fighting chance of slowing Global Warning but here we are in 2025 and at 425ppm, and the number of lives lost to more intense storms, fires, heatwaves, famines and floods are significantly increasing.   
The fact that we have done nothing to limit the CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere means that we have to act now and in as quick as possible because our lives literally depend on it so blame the previous World Governments for it being so urgent now because nobody can say we haven't been warned over the past century, they have just selfishly and ignorantly done nothing about it.