Nine climate tipping points now 'active,' warn scientists

> For an easy to understand explanation You mean an incorrect, painfully simplistic waste of my time (the video). Yes the $20million bet is a nice thought, give it a try, it will likely fail. As for the beginning of the video, planting 20 million trees (1 trillion is a more relevant goal) is not the only method of drawing down greenhouse gasses(!). I could list others, but surely you, and the creator of that watching-paint-dry video can use google for yourselves. Obviously there are also temporary geoengineering techniques that could buy us time. It is not clear that it's physically too late. If human society focused a fair portion of our present industrial capacity on fixing the problem, almost unimaginable things could be achieved. The far bigger problem is human nature, stupidity and the corrupt ruling classes. As for being too late to live in denial... it's *never* too late for that. So many of us will do that until they die - being immune to evidence or reason. Edit: I now see they were suggesting 20million trees twice per day... sorry, was trying not to nod off.