The planet objectively does not need saving. The temperature is right in the middle of the range it has established over billions of years. Please stop peddling fear.
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No. The climate is a complex system. We can't predict what's going to happen two weeks from now, never mind decades in the future.
But that won't stop lots of people from telling you they can do it with their crappy, buggy, closed-source program that prints whatever they want.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, 12,000 people in the US died during a heatwave in 1936. 40,000 died during a heatwave in Paris in 1911. Several dozen people dying per day during a heatwave in 1901 in NYC. 1,500 died of heat in NYC in 1896. People were apparently dying in southern Australia in 1906 from temperatures like 124F.
The press these days absolutely depends upon not checking for precedent, because context always makes current events less alarming. They obviously don't want anything to be less alarming, so they don't put things in crucial context. In this case, the crucial context is that heatwaves have always happened, that worse ones happened before humanity affected CO2 much, and the vast majority of the deaths from heatwaves are in the past.
Please stop promoting this kind of fearmongering.