After year of climate disasters, world off-track to curb warming

A knowledgeable far sighted scientist and a layman view the climate crisis entirely differently. The former is aware of the interactions which govern the climate system, and has some notion about the equations of these interactions. He knows that the system is full of positive feedbacks and is therefore non-linear and non-stable. The latter, in contrast, adheres to a fundamental cognitive mistakes: He believes that what happened in the past will continue to happen in the future.

I have recently seen a footage salvaged from the passenger cabin of an airliner, taken a moment before crashing. The passengers are sitting there. Still alive. Still breathing. But the oxygen masks are dropped, the cabin is semi-dark , and the dark shadow of death is already present. Death will engulf them very soon. So are the passengers of the airplane which is called "Planet Earth". They are still celebrating football, still devouring food, still guzzling drinks, still driving huge vehicles and still burning colossal amounts of carbon compounds. But the climate calamity is looming rapidly. All the ice caps will soon be melted. All the lakes and rivers will soon be dried out. The oceans are evaporating. The temperature is rising. Our civilization will suffer a tormenting death, similar to the death suffered by the civilization of our sister planet Venus and similar to the civilizations of ancient Pompeii and Sadom.

It may be still possible, at the last minute, to prevent the burning out of our planet. This entails two things: 1) Moving from extracting energy from carbon compounds to extracting it directly from the sun (using panels and concentrated solar power, which is much better) as well as from heavy nuclei (the best option is the fission of Uranium 233 manufactured from Thorium), 2) compensating for the Earth's diminution of ability to return radiation to the outer space due to the disappearance of the ice caps; this can be done by deploying sheets of reflecting material, of the appropriate wavelength, in the deserts and other areas which not utilized for agriculture.