The international gathering of scientists were thorough in their deliberations.
The final report on Global Climate Change had been forwarded to the leaders of every nation on Earth. Their findings were, as expected, most worrying. The trapping of the sun’s warmth in the planet’s lower atmosphere, played a major role in what had become known as the Greenhouse Effect. It was shown that the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere, along with the resulting air pollution in the form of greenhouse gases, was responsible for a number of far-ranging and quite catastrophic environmental issues and a frighteningly long list of worsening health effects. The world-wide instance of people suffering from respiratory diseases being the most common.
All in all, the amount of statistical evidence gathered proved conclusively that apart from peoples’ health, the growing occurrences of extreme weather, the world-wide disruptions to the supply of food and the ever-growing number of wildfires were all the result of climate change, caused by greenhouse gases.
Looking back, the immediate response to the report’s release at the time was subdued, particularly in the case of the world’s major powers. The report clearly identified these as being by far the largest polluters. That was a number of years ago now; long before the use of full face respirator masks became mandatory.
It is hard to say why more wasn’t done at the time. Those world leaders were, by default, governments of one kind or another. They each had their individual considerations about what it would mean to their economies. With this in mind, along with the fact that most had considerable control over the media, it is probably not surprising that the crucial nature of the reports and its findings were downplayed.
After all, business is business!