I ' m very sorry to hear your plight . I truly hope that you get better . Regardless of what is your health problem , there is always hope . Hang in there . However I must continue with the medical analogy because it is a good one . By the details you have given me I assume you must be suffering from some disease that is affecting one or many vital organs . It really doesn ' t matter what caused it . It could be cancer , diabetes , genetic abnormality or many different heart diseases . It always ends with an indispensable system failing . So to prolong your life you take special care of those organs , do surgery , medication , or whatever the experts agree gives you the best outcome . Like all disease the earlier is detected and treated , the better the chances of survival . The later the progression of the disease the lower the chances . This is exactly like the climate system . The Earth has vital organs like Arctic sea ice , Greenland and Antarctic glaciers , oceanic and atmospheric circulations or rain forests . Regardless how it happens meteor strike , volcanism , CO 2 , if any of these vital systems fails , the rest of the system fails and there is no going back . The earlier and the better the technique to save any of those vital Earth organs then the higher the chances of remission . The problem is that unlike medical practitioners , climate scientists do not have test monkeys , clinical trials or a body of science from where to determine what is the right treatment for the climate system . We do know what is the disease human impact , but the cure will be completely experimental .