Look, I know it’s terribly important that Kiri Allan yelled at unelected overpaid Wellington bureaucrats and Tory Whanau forgot to pay a bill – but the planet is melting

I know, I know, I know. I know, I know, I know. In this paper we report that in the ESCIMO climate model the world is already past a point-of-no-return for global warming. In ESCIMO we observe self-sustained thawing of the permafrost for hundreds of years, even if global society stops all emissions of man-made GHGs immediately. To stop the self-sustained warming in ESCIMO, enormous amounts of CO2 have to be extracted from the atmosphere.