Science

...it is certain to come in under the rubric of "too little, too late." I've played with these numbers to see what might have been, were it not for the triumph of fear and ignorance, but will save discussion to an independent post.

To steal a line from the snake oil selling antinuke fool Amory Lovins... It's the "road not traveled," the one that he, a functional idiot, contributed to closing off at least in the United States. It strikes me as incredible that someone who has been wrong about so many things is still treated with respect.

The numbers cited in the OP for carbon dioxide concentrations are unbelievable, and still, still, still, we have people who consider them trivial compared to idiot obsessions with Fukushima and Chernobyl, which they incredibly define as the only unacceptable energy disasters ever. They're idiots. Air pollution and climate change are seven to eight orders of magnitude, even more dependent on how you look at it, worse than the obsessions idiots carry around proudly.