A quick introduction to the situation can be found in the article “
Climate Change is Complex. We’ve Got Answers to Your Questions” (Sept 19, 2017, New York Times). We’ve linked to an edition annotated by climate scientist at climatefeedback.org. Overall, the scientist felt the article was quite accurate. Most of their concerns are with Part 3 of the article “What can we do?”. You can see their entire review of the article
here.