DESPITE the best efforts of the advocates of climate destruction to create the illusion of 'debate' by repeatedly copy-pasting commentaries from the same four or five outdated and long-discredited malcontents, the greater majority of the planet now accepts 'climate change' as a given: Anthropogenic climate change is an ongoing process in our present-day environment and is producing clearly identifiable, large-scale effects on an almost daily basis. The only debate is on what should be done about it.

Even then, there is a universally accepted limit on the debate, one that is created by the commonly held assumption that climate change can be 'corrected' — ideally reversed or more realistically, held to a level which provides the best balance between prevention of its most serious consequences and significant alterations to human activity. The current consensus is that this level is average annual global atmospheric temperatures not more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, higher than those in pre-industrial times or before the middle of the 19th century.