They want you to pay for OpenAI credits to try and solve these urgent existential issues. That's the purpose of them creating this hype.

What's stopping you?

Raise some funding, shouldn't be difficult if you can convince people it's urgent enough.

AI only makes the problem worse, but the message that will be pushed is that it will solve climate change.

dna engineering for enhanced carbon capture trees seems in reach. othere less fun stuff could be as well with that technology

Climate change is a political problem, not a technical problem. Ironically, by raising oil prices, Trump might have done more against climate change than many people who have been actively fighting it.