Son, Open your eyes it kicked in long ago. It's like a huge snowball rolling down hill, picking up energy as it continues. The East coast of the United States is experiencing more frequent hurricanes and of greater intensity every year. The West coast has seen record drought and fires every year. The middle of the continent has seen increasing floods and cyclones. Rivers are going dry in India, Mountain and continental glaciers are melting faster than ever. The salmon runs in Alaska are decreasing as is big halibut catches due to warming waters. Global warming has had a negative impact on eco systems all over the world. Thats the good news. The bad news is it will continue to get worse until we start doing something about it, and then it may not reverse itself for centuries if ever.

>>>>>The East coast of the United States is experiencing more frequent hurricanes and of greater intensity every year.

Recent papers (Vecchi and Knutson 2008; Landsea et al 2010; Vecchi and Knutson 2011.; Villarini et al. 2011) suggest that, based on careful examination of the Atlantic tropical storm database (HURDAT) and on estimates of how many storms were likely missed in the past, it is likely that the increase in Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane frequency in HURDAT since the late-1800s is primarily due to improved monitoring
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/historical-atlantic-hurricane-and-tropical-storm-records/

Atlantic hurricane numbers by year
2000 15
2001 15
2002 12
2003 16
2004 15
2005 28
2006 10
2007 15
2008 16
2009 9
2010 19
2011 19
2012 19
2013 14
2014 8
2015 11
2016 15
2017 17
http://www.stormfax.com/huryear.htm

>>>>>The West coast has seen record drought and fires every year

"Investigating the ... arid lands, I passed through South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho by train. Among the valleys, with mountains on every side, during all that trip a mountain was never seen. This was because the fires in the mountains created such a smoke that the whole country was enveloped by it ... "This squinty-eyed report came from Major John Wesley Powell back in 1889.
https://www.hcn.org/issues/251/13986

Not to mention that numerous studies indicate that poor forest management, not climate change, to blame for wildfires.


>>>>>>The bad news is it will continue to get worse until we start doing something about it

So, who is "we"?

And what prompts you to say "until we start doing something about it"? That seems to imply nothing has been done to date.

Did you happen to catch the weather info about the clouds covering 5 states had continuous lightning strikes, none of which touched down ? The lightning just continued across the clouds over 5 states. What sort of weather is this ?
As far as the carbon cycle, are you referring to the fact that as long as the carbon stays in the ground , things above ground maintain continuum. We will never be able to put all the carbon back into the ground.
But, could we use these ideas to our own benefit? Could we achieve some sort of autonomy by creating a defense against global warming? One that could create jobs in the environmental section owned and operated by the workers themselves?
Why do we really need fat old bald guys for CEOs dragging all of the cash home?
When we could be working on the problems at hand, and not creating more?

Son, Open your eyes it kicked in long ago. It's like a huge snowball rolling down hill, picking up energy as it continues. The East coast of the United States is experiencing more frequent hurricanes and of greater intensity every year. The West coast has seen record drought and fires every year. The middle of the continent has seen increasing floods and cyclones. Rivers are going dry in India, Mountain and continental glaciers are melting faster than ever. The salmon runs in Alaska are decreasing as is big halibut catches due to warming waters. Global warming has had a negative impact on eco systems all over the world. Thats the good news. The bad news is it will continue to get worse until we start doing something about it, and then it may not reverse itself for centuries if ever.

You reduce your credibility by your use of words "lefties" and "evil". It makes it harder to reply cleanly to you. It looks like your side of the discussion is not made in good faith. I understand there's some humor involved, and yet even in this thread some of the others are treating the topic somewhat seriously.

Whoever wants to understand Global Warming would do well to distinguish between _climate_ and _weather_. Your original post, while possibly meant lightly as a joke, appears to conflate climate and weather as though they were the same thing. This wrong conflation has been going on in public discourse for years, as with the congressman trying to make a point about climate change by exhibiting a snowball, and as with "the former guy" (former president Trump) not taking climate change seriously. Their wrong conflations of weather and climate look silly, and yet a lot of people really don't seem to understand the distinction. Weather is about day-to-day phenomena, such as whether it's raining today or not, or hotter or colder today. Climate is about longer-term trends.

In answer to your title question: "Can someone tell me just when Global Warming will kick in ?": It already has. Global ice is melting too rapidly; sea levels are already rising too rapidly; extreme weather events (hot, cold, wet, & dry events) (climate change disrupts normal weather patterns) are too rapidly becoming too extreme and too frequent. I don't have any precise date (supposing I were to pretend that you really wanted to know), but I would say offhand that, sometime between about 4 years ago and now, the effects of global warming began to become fairly obvious to tens of millions of people, including some in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. (where people died in an unusual heat wave several months ago) and in some low-lying island nations and in some coastal areas such as in Vietnam (where very-low-elevation farming, by the coast, is important), and to the fewer number of people who study images of earth photographed from space.

Of course climate change over long periods of time is normal; the problem is that the climate change that's happening nowadays is happening much more rapidly than normal, such that normal adaptations are insufficient. In my opinion, to most of us, in our day-to-day lives, it doesn't _look_ like a really terrible disaster yet (for example, here in California, while we do get more wildfires and smoke than we used to, so far the vast majority of us have been able to live through it and still live normal lives). But for millions of others (in some of the places I mentioned above) the disaster is already more proximate and appears as a more urgent matter already.

And the problems are accelerating.

Let's pretend for a moment that all of "science" is worthless and everybody ignores it. Then, we in California would still notice that we get more fires and smoke than we used to, and we'd be wondering why that's happening. And a lot of people in the Pacific Northwest would be wondering why they got such an unusually deadly heat wave last year; it would be hard to discount it as normal variability. And the Vietnamese coastal farmers can't help but notice that their farming doesn't work the same way it used to because of salinity from the rising ocean getting into their farmlands. All these things have been becoming obvious during the past few years (and -- dipping back into "the science" for a moment -- all stem from climate change, which you'll probably know after about three more years pass -- melting polar ice and melting permafrost have effects that reinforce the warming trend, and the melting ice makes a significant difference in the sea level, having dramatic effects on some low-lying island nations and some coastal areas on mainlands).

WTH??? There aren’t 9 billion people in the world yet..Thats not projected until 2037… Which just doesn’t add up that we would have that many if we’re killing ourselves off now, does it?? Or any of these numbers the “UN” throws out here.🤔

Boy they are pouring it on thick killing ourselves off while projecting this “ over population” they want to do away with, eh??

“The United Nations projects world population to reach 10 billion in the year 2057. 9 Billion (2037) World population is expected to reach 9 billion in the year 2037. 8 Billion (2023) World population is expected to reach 8 billion people in 2023 according to the United Nations (in 2026 according to the U.S. Census Bureau). 7.9 Billion (2021)”