> Carbon dioxide acts like Earth’s thermostat: The more of it in the air, the more the planet warms.

Lol. First sentence doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the author's understanding of anything, to be honest.

Doesn't get better. The headline has all the info reported, the rest is intellectually insulting fluff. Low-effort noise like this is a disservice towards climate change awareness.

CO2 is plant food. We should be concerned about dangerous chemicals exploiting the environment.

I'm sure that's all well and good for the plants. But for the rest of this, it's very concerning. I'm not looking forward to living in a greenhouse Earth. By the time we are unable to ignore the problem it will be WAY too late.

Luckily we have discovered air conditioners, have the ability to move and even mass migrate people given enough time, build dykes and floating structures or supported platforms, and invent ever better solutions to problems previously thought unsolvable. Instead of slowing economic growth to make an almost imperceptible dent in climate outcomes, why not maximise economic growth and trust yhat we will find solutions to deal with the fallout? Also people say, what about poor people who will suffer the most from climate change? Well, let's get that economy to 10X as fast as possible, rven if wealth disparities increase, the bottom is still getting better off, just at a slower pace than those at the top. So if you care that poor people will be harmed by climate change, then maybe focus on how to get them economically better off? Telling them they cannot use fossil fuels etc is not helping them I suspect. And slowing down the first world's economic growth is also not going to help the poorer nations.

Indeed. This may drive a few species extinct, and maybe Homo Sapiens is one of them, but really, plants will adapt and the planet will recover after a while.