@syndikalista I've not read it, but I've read similar things and I plot the temperature and trace gas trends myself. Yet another IPCC report won't be enough to move the needle.

Sadly, I don't think there will be any significant action on climate change until disasters are happening, and by that I mean things like major crop failures or flooded coastal cities. There's no evidence that anything done thus far has slowed the increase in CO2 production even slightly.

So my guess is that by the middle of the century there will be big crises going on, which make 2018 look like a golden age. I think elites already know this and that the recent trends of mass surveillance and militarized police are a sort of preparation for expected near future turmoil.