"... Over several million years, carbon dioxide in the ancient atmosphere increased from about 280 parts per million to 2,000 ppm, the same increase that experts expect by the end of this century as remaining reserves of fossil fuels are burned.... "
BS ALERT!!
I consider myself well-read about climate change and nowhere have I come across anyone anywhere who has stated that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will approach 2000 ppm. (This doesn't mean that someone hasn't stated it - just that I have not seen it in Scientific American, Science, Nature, or other journals like that.) I just did a quick google and found that even the radical environmentalists are stating that the figure for the end of the century will be 450 to 550 ppm.
The other BS alert: "...as the remaining reserves of fossil fuels are burned..." Talk about hyperbole! All the natural gas, all the oil, all the methane hydrates are gone by the year 2100?
So, in essence, we're all going to die. Which is true for all of us. I won't make it to 2100. I don't think my death will be from global warming, though.
In the meantime, as I turn to me left, I can see the temperature outside my window. It is now -40.9 degrees, about 35 degrees below average for this place and this time of year. Must have something to do with global warming.
I agree, awful writing. It's bad enough that the science is complex; it's worse when the media makes it more confusing by being wildly inaccurate.