The Observer view on climate change: Hurricane Milton is a portent - but it's not too late | Observer editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : If we refuse to halt the burning of fossil fuels with sufficient speed, we must find ways to catch the resulting emissions as they are created or - further in the future - after they have reached the atmosphere.
54% : This means developing ways to extract carbon emissions at factories and power plants and then to sequester them.
41% : Trump has vowed to dismantle the environmental policies introduced by President Joe Biden and promised to allow increases in the production of fossil fuels by drilling on public lands.
41% : In doing so, Trump would allow billions of tonnes of extra carbon to be pumped into our already overheated atmosphere and send a clear signal to other nations, which might be wavering in their commitment to the fight against global warming, that they need not bother to act.
40% : A few weeks ago, he signed a law erasing the words "climate change" from state statutes and effectively pledged the state's future to burning fossil fuels.
28% : This is unlikely, with most of the discussion expected to focus on methods by which developed nations can pay poorer countries to transition away from fossil fuels and adapt to climate change's worst impacts.

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