Great article. What fascinate me about the current situation is how fast the old world died - literally within a couple of years. This is the best evidence that progress is not just moving forward - it accelerates.
Either scenario is obviously terrible and we need to begin to deal with it firmly and immediately. But I thought it was worth making clear that "the scientists" here only a small set, not the community as a whole, who have an only-slightly-less dire scenario.
Scientists all over have been observing the acceleration of climate change for some time, but it has until now been difficult to tease real change out of conventional temperature variabilities.
The newsworthy part is that statisticians now have enough data to claim with strong certainty that warming has significantly accelerated.