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Not a huge fan of this headline. While it's true that we're locked in for a certain amount of warming, phrasing it as "it's too late" kind of implies "why bother", which is not a healthy attitude towards climate change.
Neither is we/they/AI/God will figure it out. I don't read the headline that way though, it's more a factual "there will be overheating, so get ready", which is totally appropriate.
telegraph is a firmly right wing rag posing as a legit news source
The check engine light pops up on your car. You are busy with life and commuting and so you bring it in a few weeks/ months after it came on. You finally get around to bring it into the mechanic.
The mechanic tells you its too late to fix the thing. You fucked up by driving around with the check engine light on and its now beyond repair.
Its not the mechanics fault you lack the emotional maturity for bad news.
Mechanic analogy doesn't really apply to climate change. You'd have make the car drive forever, become increasingly costly, eat your food and kill people while the mechanic will be able to repair it if you bring it in everyday for a long time. Bringing it to the mechanic would then also slow the deterioration and slowly make it better instead of it just getting worse.
It's a bit late for getting 1800's climate back within our lifetime but it's not to late to prevent it from getting worse.
I think what you meant is saying "your engine oil is on, it's too late to take the car to the garage" is an unhealthy attitude towards car maintenance.
Except nobody here has said that and the article isn't either. All it says is the temperature WILL rise we are already at that point.
It's just a bunch of people in the comments arguing with nobody about things being to late