I agree with you, Warren. FWIW, here's my 2-cents worth to close out the old and ring in the new year.
It very likely won't be fixed, at least in our lifetime. Because we, as Americans, are too used to our "creature comforts" and gas-guzzling "road tanks" (SUVs) and don't want to give them up, we will not be incentivized to change our consumptive, wasteful, carbon-emitting ways (all which affect our atmosphere cumulatively over a long period of time). Around the world, however, several western European (UK, France, Germany, Sweden) and Pacific Rim (Japan, South Korea) countries have been "greening" their energy production and reducing consumption for many decades now. The problem is that the biggest carbon/greenhouse gas producers and emitters in the world (U.S. and China) produce so much airborne particulates and greenhouse gases that the "green energy" countries have been unable to make any meaningful (if even measurable) headway toward reducing overall adverse effects to the atmosphere on the global scale over the many decades (if not centuries) that surface atmospheric temperature measurements have been taken. And political intervention by major powers within international climate agreements (such as, sadly, is happening currently with the U.S.) only results in creating more dysfunction, rather than working cooperatively toward finding a real solution.
