The name itself is both misleading and imo a misnomer. We'd likely be better off calling it global temperature upset or a term like it. Warming carries the sense that we can feel the world average temperature and of course we cannot. It's hard to tell a Canadian that there is global warming when it's 40 below in February. The planet is for most intent and purpose a closed system. Basically, what ya see is what ya got to work with--forever. There are only three places to put stuff: air, sea, land. Mess any of them up, which we have, and it's possible we could so screw things up as to make recovery beyond our capabilities. Sooner or later we're gonna figure that out. Sooner would be better.