S104 feelings on chapter 8/global warming and started revising study technique

Book 1 Chapter 8

Just finished Book 1 Chapter 8 (the penultimate chapter) of Global Warming and the feeling I get now is one of despondency - is there anything that we can do as a human race to stop global warming? - I hope so, the level of technology we have reached, you would have thought so, but is there the will?  We need to start looking at the problem urgently as from reading the chapter, optimistic projections where the CO2emissions peak at 2050 and then start to decrease, would still mean the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere will rise for the next 100 years, in that time they will reach a steady state, but will be almost double the amount they are now.  Temperatures will go up,  by 2100 optimistic projections predict a 1.5C rise and pessimistic projections by 6C.  So the only way out of it is to come up with technologies to remove the levels of CO2 currently in the atmosphere, and implement them almost straight away to reduce the effects.  And this doesn't even take into account the potentional affect that methane could have, Methane being 20 times more potent then CO2.
There doesn't seem to be the urgency to do this however, just look at how the US treats environmental concerns, and with China and India now coming into the fold, the problem will only get worse.  Until it starts to affect 'the man in the street' personally and they start really lobbying government to get things done, or take actions themselves,  I feel nothing will happen to address the situation (seriously anyway).  Time will tell.

Progress towards study technique

Been through the whole of Book 1 and have written down on removable post it notes attached to the end of every chapter, all of the headings and sub- headings (part of the SQ3R study technique - the S = scan part - bit late as I have already studied the first 7 chapters, however these will be good for creating the documents or mind - maps that I have in mind):-

I have also started to create section summaries in chapter 8, example picture below.  Will see if I have time to do them for the rest of the book, but feel I must now move on to finally finishing the TMA and proceeding to Book 2:-

Next task is to complete the activites in chapter 8 - the global warming model and a bit on the rain gauges.  Then finish chapter 9 which is only a couple of pages, and finish the TMA.  Do an overall summary of Book 1 for revision purposes and then proceed to Book 2.