#tipping-point — Public Fediverse posts

🌊 Long before the term #TippingPoint was coined, oceanographer Henry Stommel discovered that the thermohaline circulation could exhibit multiple equilibria—&that small perturbations could trigger transitions between them. His 1961 Tellus paper underpins today’s research on the #AMOC.
📃 On the occasion of Tellus’s relaunch&the paper’s 65th anniversary, our director Jochem Marotzke analyzes its reception from the circuitous early history to its lasting legacy: https://tellusjournal.org/articles/10.16993/tellus.4175
#Oceanography

🌊 Long before the term #TippingPoint was coined, oceanographer Henry Stommel discovered that the thermohaline circulation could exhibit multiple equilibria—&that small perturbations could trigger transitions between them. His 1961 Tellus paper underpins today’s research on the #AMOC.
📃 On the occasion of Tellus’s relaunch&the paper’s 65th anniversary, our director Jochem Marotzke analyzes its reception from the circuitous early history to its lasting legacy: https://tellusjournal.org/articles/10.16993/tellus.4175
#Oceanography

#Hanfgeschichten #Augenblicke 🌱 #Cannabis #Klimakatastrophe #EFunktion #ZunehmendwenigerZeit #Kipppunkte sind mehrheitlich überschritten. #Dominoeffekte treten ein. Es beschleunigt sich zunehmend. Menschliche #Wahrnehmung unzuverlässig.

https://mastodon.social/@Karl_Theodor/114001463185875273

#Systemträgheit #Verdrängung #kognitiveDissonanz #dontlookup #savePlanetA #thereisNOPlanetB #tutmirleid #Future #noFUTUREforYOU #Kinder #Enkel #Neugeborene #keineChancemehr #tippingpoint #gameover #Angst #Realitätsflucht #Verweigerung

#Hanfgeschichten #Augenblicke 🌱 #Cannabis #Klimakatastrophe #EFunktion #ZunehmendwenigerZeit #Kipppunkte sind mehrheitlich überschritten. #Dominoeffekte treten ein. Es beschleunigt sich zunehmend. Menschliche #Wahrnehmung unzuverlässig.

https://mastodon.social/@Karl_Theodor/114001463185875273

#Systemträgheit #Verdrängung #kognitiveDissonanz #dontlookup #savePlanetA #thereisNOPlanetB #tutmirleid #Future #noFUTUREforYOU #Kinder #Enkel #Neugeborene #keineChancemehr #tippingpoint #gameover #Angst #Realitätsflucht #Verweigerung

Day 65: After a smooth 9-hour boat ride over the Sepik river, we made it to Sisimagung, Northern Papua. This is the 65th day of my no-fly trip from Italy to the Solomon islands. The coastline is beautiful, what you could describe as paradise on earth. Coconut trees gently bend over sandy beaches and the sound of the waves quietly resound among villagers busy with their fishing nets or cooking earths. It is then all the more upsetting that this beauty is slowly but incessantly being destroyed by sea level rise. This is what Jeffery Bae, a local resident, tells me in the few hours I have here before getting on a truck to Madang. It seems impossible that a sea so quiet can become the agent of destruction, but this is precisely what happens, as Jeffery shows traditional houses made with sago and bamboo leaves having been dismantled by the latest storm surges.
"We will have to relocate", tells me Jeffrey with an empty, "but we don't know where, because right behind our village there's a swamp".
Once more, I hear the same story: no help from national, regional governments, and neither from international organisations.
How many million stories are similar to Jeffrey's, and I wouldn't hear were it not for my slow travel.

Check interview here:
https://youtu.be/hk4Vr9p5ZFc

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

Day 65: After a smooth 9-hour boat ride over the Sepik river, we made it to Sisimagung, Northern Papua. This is the 65th day of my no-fly trip from Italy to the Solomon islands. The coastline is beautiful, what you could describe as paradise on earth. Coconut trees gently bend over sandy beaches and the sound of the waves quietly resound among villagers busy with their fishing nets or cooking earths. It is then all the more upsetting that this beauty is slowly but incessantly being destroyed by sea level rise. This is what Jeffery Bae, a local resident, tells me in the few hours I have here before getting on a truck to Madang. It seems impossible that a sea so quiet can become the agent of destruction, but this is precisely what happens, as Jeffery shows traditional houses made with sago and bamboo leaves having been dismantled by the latest storm surges.
"We will have to relocate", tells me Jeffrey with an empty, "but we don't know where, because right behind our village there's a swamp".
Once more, I hear the same story: no help from national, regional governments, and neither from international organisations.
How many million stories are similar to Jeffrey's, and I wouldn't hear were it not for my slow travel.

Check interview here:
https://youtu.be/hk4Vr9p5ZFc

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

What is a #tippingpoint, and why should we care? #Ecosystems are subject to disturbances and major shifts. #Pesticide run off from #palmoil pollutes local rivers, depleting the oxygen fish need to survive #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🔥🧐⛔️ https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/04/07/explainer-what-is-a-tipping-point-and-why-should-i-care/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

What is a #tippingpoint, and why should we care? #Ecosystems are subject to disturbances and major shifts. #Pesticide run off from #palmoil pollutes local rivers, depleting the oxygen fish need to survive #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🔥🧐⛔️ https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/04/07/explainer-what-is-a-tipping-point-and-why-should-i-care/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

The #NorthAtlantic’s ‘cold blob’ may signal a major current’s decline
The #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation may be near a #tippingpoint, researchers say
Prevailing wisdom has been that the patch was getting colder because less heat was coming in via #ocean currents — specifically, #AMOC. This current brings heat from the tropics northward toward Europe, shaping temperature and precipitation in Europe, North Africa and beyond.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cold-blob-may-signal-current-decline
https://archive.ph/O9e5B #Atlantic

The #NorthAtlantic’s ‘cold blob’ may signal a major current’s decline
The #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation may be near a #tippingpoint, researchers say
Prevailing wisdom has been that the patch was getting colder because less heat was coming in via #ocean currents — specifically, #AMOC. This current brings heat from the tropics northward toward Europe, shaping temperature and precipitation in Europe, North Africa and beyond.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cold-blob-may-signal-current-decline
https://archive.ph/O9e5B #Atlantic

There is potential for Amoc weakening to become a collapse. In that specific scenario ,Europe would experience climate change up to 10 times faster than today. Considering that current climate change is already hard to keep up with as a society, we can’t begin to imagine what impact an Amoc collapse could have on our daily lives.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/14/amoc-collapse-europe-climate

There is potential for Amoc weakening to become a collapse. In that specific scenario ,Europe would experience climate change up to 10 times faster than today. Considering that current climate change is already hard to keep up with as a society, we can’t begin to imagine what impact an Amoc collapse could have on our daily lives.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/14/amoc-collapse-europe-climate

@dalfen "Some men just want to watch the world burn."

Nature: ...

#TippingPoint #PointOfNoReturn #ClimateEmergency #Nature

@dalfen "Some men just want to watch the world burn."

Nature: ...

#TippingPoint #PointOfNoReturn #ClimateEmergency #Nature

#SeaIce loss in the #Arctic has triggered a critical #TippingPoint that's destroying the food chain

Story by Sascha Pare, June 8, 2026

"The Arctic Ocean has crossed a tipping point that is wreaking havoc on the region's food chain, with potentially dire consequences for commercial fishing and the ocean's capacity to soak up carbon, a new study reports.

"Scientists found that vast areas of melting sea ice in the Arctic are leading to a significant reduction in nitrate, a key nutrient that forms the base of the marine food web and thus underpins important regional fisheries. As the ice disappears, more light hits the water's surface, promoting the growth of microscopic, plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. When phytoplankton die, their cells sink to the seafloor and are decomposed by nitrate- and oxygen-consuming bacteria.

"The new study, published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, found that the bacteria are consuming more nitrate than the Arctic ecosystem can withstand.

"This effect, known as 'denitrification,"' is irreversible under current climate conditions because we have passed a threshold where so much sunlight reaches the ocean that it's supercharging phytoplankton's productivity, said Marta Santos-García, a doctoral student of Arctic marine biogeochemistry at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the first author of the study.

" 'Even if sea ice were to increase temporarily, the Arctic nutrient system responds over much longer timescales,' Santos-García told Live Science in an email. 'Short-term increases in sea ice would be unlikely to rapidly reverse the decline in nitrate inventories, which may take much longer to recover.'

"Dropping nitrate levels may eventually come back to bite phytoplankton, because these tiny organisms need nitrate to carry out photosynthesis. As a result, the transition to a low-nitrate regime could accelerate #ClimateChange, as nitrate plays an essential role in the ocean's biological pump, which takes #CarbonDioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and locks it away at depth when #phytoplankton and the animals that eat it die.

" 'With nutrients such as nitrate in limited supply this mechanism cannot work effectively,' Santos-García said.

"To understand ecosystem changes in the Arctic, the researchers analyzed two decades of data from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and Svalbard, Norway, that is the main gateway through which Arctic waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean. They found a sharp decline in nitrate levels in this region after 2009, which coincided with a dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice and a gradual shift in phytoplankton communities toward smaller species that can cope with low nutrient levels.

" 'Shifts towards smaller phytoplankton have already been observed in parts of the Arctic, although these changes have not previously been linked to nitrate losses,' Santos-García said. 'This matters because smaller phytoplankton are generally less efficient at transferring energy up the food web. More of the energy is recycled within microbial communities rather than being passed on to larger zooplankton, fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.'

"Phytoplankton sit at the very bottom of the marine food chain, so the impacts of nitrate depletion will ripple through the Arctic ecosystem, impacting species at the highest levels. This could also affect fisheries in regions that depend on Arctic nutrient exports, such as the North Atlantic. But pinpointing what will happen in ecosystems downstream of the Arctic Ocean requires more research, Santos-García said.

"For years, researchers thought the long-term impact of sea ice loss in the Arctic would be an increase in phytoplankton, because more organisms can bathe in sunlight and multiply when the sea ice extent is small. However, the increase in phytoplankton since 2009 has depleted nitrate levels enough to limit future phytoplankton growth.

"Whereas phytoplankton proliferation used to be limited by how much sunlight reached surface waters, it is now controlled by nitrate levels. Therefore, nitrate must be considered as a key driver of future changes in the Arctic, Santos-García said.

" 'As nitrate is the nutrient that limits Arctic productivity, understanding these changes is therefore important not only for Arctic communities and ecosystems, but also for improving projections of future climate change,' she said."

Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/sea-ice-loss-in-the-arctic-has-triggered-a-critical-tipping-point-that-s-destroying-the-food-chain/ar-AA257Nx3?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhoverent&cvid=fc8829987c62417bd8585d854cb2ec7b&ei=5

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/E1Dlw

#ClimateChange #TippingPoint #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #ArcticEcosystems #SeaIce #OceansAreLife

#SeaIce loss in the #Arctic has triggered a critical #TippingPoint that's destroying the food chain

Story by Sascha Pare, June 8, 2026

"The Arctic Ocean has crossed a tipping point that is wreaking havoc on the region's food chain, with potentially dire consequences for commercial fishing and the ocean's capacity to soak up carbon, a new study reports.

"Scientists found that vast areas of melting sea ice in the Arctic are leading to a significant reduction in nitrate, a key nutrient that forms the base of the marine food web and thus underpins important regional fisheries. As the ice disappears, more light hits the water's surface, promoting the growth of microscopic, plant-like organisms called phytoplankton. When phytoplankton die, their cells sink to the seafloor and are decomposed by nitrate- and oxygen-consuming bacteria.

"The new study, published May 28 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, found that the bacteria are consuming more nitrate than the Arctic ecosystem can withstand.

"This effect, known as 'denitrification,"' is irreversible under current climate conditions because we have passed a threshold where so much sunlight reaches the ocean that it's supercharging phytoplankton's productivity, said Marta Santos-García, a doctoral student of Arctic marine biogeochemistry at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the first author of the study.

" 'Even if sea ice were to increase temporarily, the Arctic nutrient system responds over much longer timescales,' Santos-García told Live Science in an email. 'Short-term increases in sea ice would be unlikely to rapidly reverse the decline in nitrate inventories, which may take much longer to recover.'

"Dropping nitrate levels may eventually come back to bite phytoplankton, because these tiny organisms need nitrate to carry out photosynthesis. As a result, the transition to a low-nitrate regime could accelerate #ClimateChange, as nitrate plays an essential role in the ocean's biological pump, which takes #CarbonDioxide from the atmosphere via photosynthesis and locks it away at depth when #phytoplankton and the animals that eat it die.

" 'With nutrients such as nitrate in limited supply this mechanism cannot work effectively,' Santos-García said.

"To understand ecosystem changes in the Arctic, the researchers analyzed two decades of data from the Fram Strait, a passage between Greenland and Svalbard, Norway, that is the main gateway through which Arctic waters flow into the Atlantic Ocean. They found a sharp decline in nitrate levels in this region after 2009, which coincided with a dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice and a gradual shift in phytoplankton communities toward smaller species that can cope with low nutrient levels.

" 'Shifts towards smaller phytoplankton have already been observed in parts of the Arctic, although these changes have not previously been linked to nitrate losses,' Santos-García said. 'This matters because smaller phytoplankton are generally less efficient at transferring energy up the food web. More of the energy is recycled within microbial communities rather than being passed on to larger zooplankton, fish, seabirds, and marine mammals.'

"Phytoplankton sit at the very bottom of the marine food chain, so the impacts of nitrate depletion will ripple through the Arctic ecosystem, impacting species at the highest levels. This could also affect fisheries in regions that depend on Arctic nutrient exports, such as the North Atlantic. But pinpointing what will happen in ecosystems downstream of the Arctic Ocean requires more research, Santos-García said.

"For years, researchers thought the long-term impact of sea ice loss in the Arctic would be an increase in phytoplankton, because more organisms can bathe in sunlight and multiply when the sea ice extent is small. However, the increase in phytoplankton since 2009 has depleted nitrate levels enough to limit future phytoplankton growth.

"Whereas phytoplankton proliferation used to be limited by how much sunlight reached surface waters, it is now controlled by nitrate levels. Therefore, nitrate must be considered as a key driver of future changes in the Arctic, Santos-García said.

" 'As nitrate is the nutrient that limits Arctic productivity, understanding these changes is therefore important not only for Arctic communities and ecosystems, but also for improving projections of future climate change,' she said."

Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/sea-ice-loss-in-the-arctic-has-triggered-a-critical-tipping-point-that-s-destroying-the-food-chain/ar-AA257Nx3?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhoverent&cvid=fc8829987c62417bd8585d854cb2ec7b&ei=5

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/E1Dlw

#ClimateChange #TippingPoint #GlobalWarming #WarmingOceans #ArcticEcosystems #SeaIce #OceansAreLife

Mysterious 'cold blob' in the #Atlantic is a sign of the #GulfStream weakening — and that's bad news for the #USEastCoast

The Atlantic's enigmatic "cold blob" has once again been linked to a weakening of key ocean currents and a devastating climate tipping point.

Story by Patrick Pester, 6/10/2026

"A mysterious "cold blob" in the Atlantic Ocean is a sign that key ocean currents are weakening, a new study has found, with potentially devastating long-term impacts on our #climate and #weather.

The cold blob, or #NorthAtlantic #WarmingHole, is an area south of Greenland and Iceland where average sea surface temperatures have actually been going down. Researchers have been working to understand the blob for years, given that it bucks the global trend of Earth getting warmer.

"The new research, published May 28 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, supports previous interpretations that the blob's existence points to a weakening of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC). "

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-atlantic-is-a-sign-of-the-gulf-stream-weakening/ar-AA25jzjY

Live Science (maybe behind a paywall):
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-atlantic-is-a-sign-of-the-gulf-stream-weakening-and-thats-bad-news-for-the-us-east-coast

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5ub6v

#ClimateChange #TippingPoint #GlobalWarming #AMOCCollapse

Mysterious 'cold blob' in the #Atlantic is a sign of the #GulfStream weakening — and that's bad news for the #USEastCoast

The Atlantic's enigmatic "cold blob" has once again been linked to a weakening of key ocean currents and a devastating climate tipping point.

Story by Patrick Pester, 6/10/2026

"A mysterious "cold blob" in the Atlantic Ocean is a sign that key ocean currents are weakening, a new study has found, with potentially devastating long-term impacts on our #climate and #weather.

The cold blob, or #NorthAtlantic #WarmingHole, is an area south of Greenland and Iceland where average sea surface temperatures have actually been going down. Researchers have been working to understand the blob for years, given that it bucks the global trend of Earth getting warmer.

"The new research, published May 28 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, supports previous interpretations that the blob's existence points to a weakening of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC). "

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/weather/topstories/mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-atlantic-is-a-sign-of-the-gulf-stream-weakening/ar-AA25jzjY

Live Science (maybe behind a paywall):
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-atlantic-is-a-sign-of-the-gulf-stream-weakening-and-thats-bad-news-for-the-us-east-coast

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5ub6v

#ClimateChange #TippingPoint #GlobalWarming #AMOCCollapse

How Myles Garrett’s arrival has the Rams talking Aaron Donald return https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/909958/ #Aaron #AaronDonaldReturn #Arizona #ArizonaCardinals #ArizonaCardinals #Cardinals #CooperKupp #Donald #erica #Football #husband #MylesGarrett #NFL #Rams #SeanMcVay #SuperBowl #team #TippingPoint #wife #year

Warming unlocks ancient carbon in Tibetan permafrost, triggering climate tipping point

The results revealed a clear and troubling pattern across all warming levels. Even under low to moderate warming, #carbon losses through respiration outpaced photosynthetic carbon gains by 1–16-fold.

Warming by +1°C, +2°C, and +4°C increased annual net #CO2 release by 44%, 80%, and 176%, respectively, and the site was a net carbon source before any experimental warming began.

"When warming reaches around 2–4°C, the system changes fundamentally," Ding told Phys.org. "Plants begin to reach their thermal and water-stress limits, so photosynthesis declines. At the same time, thaw penetrates deeper into the #soil, exposing old #permafrost carbon that has been frozen and protected for hundreds to thousands of years. Once thawed, microbes can decompose it and release it as CO2."

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ancient-carbon-tibetan-permafrost-triggering.html

#TippingPoint
#Tibet
#Himalaya
#Uhhps

https://dominusmarkham.com/the-ocean-is-switching-off-and-nobodys-watching/

#amoccollapse
#ClimateEmergency
#OceanCrisis
#ClimateScience
#tippingpoint

Arctic Ocean passed a tipping point and scientists say it may never recover https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260528082457.htm

#Arctic #ocean #TippingPoint

Arctic Ocean passed a tipping point and scientists say it may never recover https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260528082457.htm

#Arctic #ocean #TippingPoint

Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

https://io.google/2026/explore/workshop-2

#HackerNews #SoftwareEngineering #TippingPoint #TechTrends #Innovation #FutureOfTech

Software Engineering at the Tipping Point

https://io.google/2026/explore/workshop-2

#HackerNews #SoftwareEngineering #TippingPoint #TechTrends #Innovation #FutureOfTech

Day 65: I cross the Sepik river in a 9-hour night boat ride. I didn't know it was possible to sleep comfortably on betel nut bags, but it is. The quiet of the sunrise in the foggy dimmed-light awakening will never die in me. So the warmth of the fellow passengers and the skipper Bendol. Incidentally, his torch faded away soon after setting off. What would he have done if I hadn't lent me my own torch to navigate the boat in the night? This is typical Papua: no thinking about the future, everything will be alright.

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

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Day 65: I cross the Sepik river in a 9-hour night boat ride. I didn't know it was possible to sleep comfortably on betel nut bags, but it is. The quiet of the sunrise in the foggy dimmed-light awakening will never die in me. So the warmth of the fellow passengers and the skipper Bendol. Incidentally, his torch faded away soon after setting off. What would he have done if I hadn't lent me my own torch to navigate the boat in the night? This is typical Papua: no thinking about the future, everything will be alright.

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

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The original plan was to take a boat straightaway after my arrival in Angoram, in the Sepik river, but I thought I'd better take a rest instead - even if I had nothing booked. the local priest put me up and in the morning local guy Morgan shows me arob Ng the local market, open everyday. the main food from here is sago, a tree from the palm oil family, from which the locals take almost everything. from the internal pulp that is eaten raw or processed to make flour, to its leaves that are used to make up houses' roofs. Watch YT video:

https://youtube.com/shorts/cdcVaPis2MY

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do. 78/

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

The original plan was to take a boat straightaway after my arrival in Angoram, in the Sepik river, but I thought I'd better take a rest instead - even if I had nothing booked. the local priest put me up and in the morning local guy Morgan shows me arob Ng the local market, open everyday. the main food from here is sago, a tree from the palm oil family, from which the locals take almost everything. from the internal pulp that is eaten raw or processed to make flour, to its leaves that are used to make up houses' roofs. Watch YT video:

https://youtube.com/shorts/cdcVaPis2MY

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do. 78/

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

Guys. Can we talk about tipping? These tip screens are getting out of hand, right? I know a lot of people depend on tips but ... can we just, have prices? rather than marking up everything 15% at checkout? I am feeling some major demand avoidance building up in me

#tipping #tippingPoint #actuallyAutistic #nuerodivergent #adhd

Guys. Can we talk about tipping? These tip screens are getting out of hand, right? I know a lot of people depend on tips but ... can we just, have prices? rather than marking up everything 15% at checkout? I am feeling some major demand avoidance building up in me

#tipping #tippingPoint #actuallyAutistic #nuerodivergent #adhd

Day 63: Big setback as only ferry serving Wewak has broken engine. The pastor looking after me recommends an alternative route through the Sepik river.

He leaves it late, but in the end he manages to find a place on the last truck of the day travelling to Angoram on the Sepik river. They leave me the privilege of travelling on the front of the truck where I have a comfy seat rather than the wooden benches all the other passengers use on the back. the scenery is very diverse from the ones I used to in Bougainville. there's no rainforest here, but rather grassland and bushes. it strikes me that even this very old, noisy and rusty truck is a luxury in comparison with the many who cannot afford it and walk over the main (and only) road. actually, we are lucky there's a road at all. This will stop at the Sepik river, as there's no bridge crossing over it.

I get to Angoram after an 8-hour drive. I have no idea where to stay and find a place to sleep in the local church (along with rats & insects).

https://youtube.com/shorts/xT5dboTbjP8

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.

Day 63: Big setback as only ferry serving Wewak has broken engine. The pastor looking after me recommends an alternative route through the Sepik river.

He leaves it late, but in the end he manages to find a place on the last truck of the day travelling to Angoram on the Sepik river. They leave me the privilege of travelling on the front of the truck where I have a comfy seat rather than the wooden benches all the other passengers use on the back. the scenery is very diverse from the ones I used to in Bougainville. there's no rainforest here, but rather grassland and bushes. it strikes me that even this very old, noisy and rusty truck is a luxury in comparison with the many who cannot afford it and walk over the main (and only) road. actually, we are lucky there's a road at all. This will stop at the Sepik river, as there's no bridge crossing over it.

I get to Angoram after an 8-hour drive. I have no idea where to stay and find a place to sleep in the local church (along with rats & insects).

https://youtube.com/shorts/xT5dboTbjP8

#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco

I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.

‘Class traitor’ @[email protected] blows whistle on how our economic system underpinning #AI makes megawealthy wealthier while crushing rest of us. #neoliberalism #tippingpoint #inequality #EndOfOpportunity #SocialCohesion #pitchforks #MiddleClass youtu.be/qa6GjNzxjHE?...

Will AI Destroy The Middle Cla...

‘Class traitor’ @[email protected] blows whistle on how our economic system underpinning #AI makes megawealthy wealthier while crushing rest of us. #neoliberalism #tippingpoint #inequality #EndOfOpportunity #SocialCohesion #pitchforks #MiddleClass youtu.be/qa6GjNzxjHE?...

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Brazil bill aims to ban satellite tool used to slow Amazon deforestation https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/brazil-bill-aims-to-ban-satellite-tool-used-to-slow-amazon-deforestation/

Deforestation and warming could push Amazon to tipping point by 2040s: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/deforestation-and-warming-could-push-amazon-to-tipping-point-by-2040s-study/

#Amazon #environment #forest #deforestation #TippingPoint #TippingPoints

Brazil bill aims to ban satellite tool used to slow Amazon deforestation https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/brazil-bill-aims-to-ban-satellite-tool-used-to-slow-amazon-deforestation/

Deforestation and warming could push Amazon to tipping point by 2040s: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/deforestation-and-warming-could-push-amazon-to-tipping-point-by-2040s-study/

#Amazon #environment #forest #deforestation #TippingPoint #TippingPoints

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/04/new-orleans-sea-levels-relocation-climate-crisis

#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture #AMOC #Amazon #tippingPoint #billionaires #BigOil #societalCollapse

Paul on an excellent article by #GeorgeMonbiot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-DdaDJmOI0

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture #AMOC #Amazon #tippingPoint #billionaires #BigOil #societalCollapse

Paul on an excellent article by #GeorgeMonbiot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-DdaDJmOI0

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

@randahl Please place ultimate responsibility on the roots: #FossilFuels leaders, who buy-off politicians, religious leaders, and royal families, in oppressing the people.

Until a #TippingPoint of concentrated momentum is accurately heaped upon those most guilty, the weight will continue to cause more and more pain and suffering, for those least culpable.

#ScalesOfJustice for #sustainability

@randahl Please place ultimate responsibility on the roots: #FossilFuels leaders, who buy-off politicians, religious leaders, and royal families, in oppressing the people.

Until a #TippingPoint of concentrated momentum is accurately heaped upon those most guilty, the weight will continue to cause more and more pain and suffering, for those least culpable.

#ScalesOfJustice for #sustainability

There are signs that a so-called super El Niño could develop this year, supercharging extreme weather events around the world. Some forecasts are suggesting it could become one of the strongest ever recorded.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/23/down-to-earth-super-el-nino-extreme-weather

There are signs that a so-called super El Niño could develop this year, supercharging extreme weather events around the world. Some forecasts are suggesting it could become one of the strongest ever recorded.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/23/down-to-earth-super-el-nino-extreme-weather

The poor and middle pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers – and the ultra-rich pay politicians.

The billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises. One of the symptoms of the pathology known as “billionaire brain” is an inability to see beyond their own short-term gain. They would sack the planet for a few more stones on the pointless mountain of wealth.

And we can see it happening.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis

The poor and middle pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers – and the ultra-rich pay politicians.

The billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises. One of the symptoms of the pathology known as “billionaire brain” is an inability to see beyond their own short-term gain. They would sack the planet for a few more stones on the pointless mountain of wealth.

And we can see it happening.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis

What is a #tippingpoint, and why should we care? #Ecosystems are subject to disturbances and major shifts. #Pesticide run off from #palmoil pollutes local rivers, depleting the oxygen fish need to survive #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🔥🧐⛔️ https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/04/07/explainer-what-is-a-tipping-point-and-why-should-i-care/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

What is a #tippingpoint, and why should we care? #Ecosystems are subject to disturbances and major shifts. #Pesticide run off from #palmoil pollutes local rivers, depleting the oxygen fish need to survive #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🔥🧐⛔️ https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/04/07/explainer-what-is-a-tipping-point-and-why-should-i-care/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#FYI #ClimateChat #DanMiller #LeonSimons #EliRabani #StaceyRandecker

with #ReneVanWesten on the #AMOC #TippingPoint

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https://www.youtube.com/live/JMtu9W4iVSQ

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis

#FYI #ClimateChat #DanMiller #LeonSimons #EliRabani #StaceyRandecker

with #ReneVanWesten on the #AMOC #TippingPoint

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https://www.youtube.com/live/JMtu9W4iVSQ

#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis