Climate change today is all about a massive dislocation of the climate system, not unlike the loss of ozone molecules 40 years ago. Image by Wolfgang Hasselmann.

It May Be Too Late is a climate change idiom that is gaining recognition because global warming is bringing the threat of irreversible climate system collapse to reality as nightly TV news broadcasts flash floods and record-setting temperatures year-by-year with increasing intensity, but that’s just for starters.

Along the way, Earth is regurgitating decades of climate system abuse as glacial lake outbursts bury entire villages, Blatten, Switzerland and more telling yet, the world’s leading insurance companies, e.g. Allianz (the world’s largest) warn of uninsurable mortgages because of a lashing climate system. They foresee an upcoming systemic breakdown of the financial system, which is climate change’s payback, unless, as stated by insurance executives, CO2 emissions from burning fossil fuels are stopped.

Nobody has warned of the dangers like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) who on September 9, 2025 delivered his 301st Time to Wake Up speech to the US Senate, warning of a collapsing socio-economic future because of a whacky climate system fed by the fossil fuel industry’s excessive CO2 emissions, but as he explains in some detail, horror of horrors, fossil fuel interests are now on ‘the inside’ with a complacent Trump administration as global warming’s new partner working in its best interests to exceed 2°C above pre-industrial, With the full power of the US government as an ally, global warming should be able to achieve much hotter temperatures much sooner. Then, in due course, Climate Armageddon will have its own nightly TV news show, for the full hour.

Senator Whitehouse has brought out in the open for all to hear: “It may now be too late to prevent it. It may now be too late to wake up. But I hope not… We are on the verge of a major economic shock. But Congress is lost in the moment, not paying attention. When that economic shock hits, I want people to know how and why we failed to protect them. The shock is simple: Climate change makes property insurance........

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