#tipping-points — Public Fediverse posts
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Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate
https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-degrees-tipping-points
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49671460
#HackerNews #climatecrisis #climatechange #sustainability #tippingpoints #globalwarming #environmentalimpact
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#DrGilbz on #TimesOfChange and positive #TippingPoints
(On repeat 🙄 )
We have the knowledge, the technology, and we definitively have the necessary money.
GO ALREADY!#TakeAction
#organize #community #resilience #adaptation #renewables #solarize!#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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The Guardian: Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/10/climate-feedback-loops-global-warming-study
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Sobering article but *absolutely* worth a read …. and please boost widely!
“4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’”
by Media Lens on Substack
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@ZackPolanski“If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made barely a dent in news headlines.”
https://medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-dead-there-are-no-words
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #ClimateCrisis #4BD #LegacyMedia #Extinction #Deaths #Mortality #PlanetarySolvency #TippingPoints #Guardian #BBC #GargantuanLie #MI5 #MI6 #Polanski #ClimateDenial #Reform #FarRight #Narratives #Hallam
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If we breach climate tipping points, climate change will continue even if we do reach net zero.
A letter to the Sheffield Star.
Dear Editor
In Friday’s Star, you highlighted a quote from Baroness Brown, who chairs the Climate Change Committee’s adaptation work. She said, “It gets worse from here. Until we get to Net Zero, things go on getting worse.”
Unfortunately, they may carry on getting far worse after we reach Net Zero.
We are dangerously close to climate tipping points, and if these are breached, our planet will no longer be a safe home for us. For instance, if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation collapses, our weather will be like the Ice Age in winter and extremely hot in summer, making it impossible to grow crops. Or if giant ice sheets collapse in the Arctic or Antarctic, sea levels will rise and likely flood most of our best agricultural land. Or when areas of the tundra melt, large emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane will be released, further increasing climate change.
Governments must stop dilly-dallying and get on a war footing to end our addiction to fossil fuels. They should be showing the Climate Emergency Briefing film to the public so everyone understands the extreme threats we face. Baroness Brown is right about one thing: this isn’t the new normal. Things will continue to get worse, so we need massive investment in adaptation so we can cope better with extreme heat, floods, fires, droughts, and storms.
As we have watched awful fires scorch many of our green spaces this week, it gives me no pleasure to say, “I told you this would happen”. And still, the Fire Brigade lacks the resources needed to adequately cope with so many fires. We don’t even have a single firefighting plane in this country.
Instead of leading on adaptation to keep us safe, Andy Burnham is expanding airports and debating opening yet more climate-changing oil and gas fields in the North Sea. Surely this record-breaking summer should be a wake-up call for him?
Yours sincerely
Graham Wroe
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Claims have circulated that UK actuaries have predicted that billions will die beyond 2C of warming, forming the basis for a new campaign. But did they really say that? New post by me at climatetippingpoints.info checking it out (tl;dr: no.):
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #TippingPoints #Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateFeedbacks #SciComm #Sustainability #4BillionDead #Actuaries
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#ExtremeWeather #tippingpoints #economy #insurance #supplychains #society
Levermann 14 July 2026, Nature 655, 571-573
‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-02154-8
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #polycrisis
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@paulbeckwith/117029422941392749
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture & literature review #ExtremeWeather #tippingpoints #economy #insurance #society
Tipping into trouble
"The scale of the consequences is not obvious at first, especially if you don't want to see it."
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #polycrisis
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Stop Rosebank while Europe burns!
As I write this, record-breaking wildfires are being reported all over Europe and nearby at Tintwhistle. Longley Park in Sheffield is currently burning. 300,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in France and Spain. We are seeing very clearly what it means to live on a planet that has been heated by 1.5 degrees C by the insulating blanket of CO2, caused by emissions from burning fossil fuels. Greta Thunberg was right: our house is on fire.
Tell the Truth Sheffield says No to RosebankMeanwhile, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham is reportedly still considering opening new oil and gas fields at Rosebank and Jackdaw in the North Sea. We have to stop him!
On Monday, Tell the Truth Sheffield joined with campaigners from Stop Rosebank, South Yorkshire Climate Alliance, the Green Party, Extinction Rebellion, the Climate Choir, Better Buses for South Yorkshire, Climate Vigil and Sheffield Quakers to take some photographs outside Sheffield’s famous landmark, the Crucible Theatre. This is part of a national campaign organised by Stop Rosebank. Members of these organisations are being urged to write to their MP, including one of these photos or one they take of themselves. There is a template to use here and a briefing to send them here. (Note the Template is already slightly out of date, so do please edit it as Andy Burnham is now PM and the EDM has been debated.) Alternatively, write directly to your MP. The addresses can be found here.
Here is my letter to Louise Haigh MP, who now has a very powerful post in the Cabinet as First Secretary of State of the United Kingdom. It is partly based on the Stop Rosebank Template. Feel free to copy and paste and edit this to send to your MP.
Dear Louise
Congratulations on your promotion to the role of First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. It is good to see so many MP’s from Yorkshire in the Cabinet.
As I write, we are approaching the third heatwave of the summer and Tintwhistle Moor is still on fire. In France and Spain, wildfires burn worryingly out of control, forcing many to evacuate their homes. Greta Thunberg was right: our house is on fire, and we should be reacting to the climate and nature emergencies with a similar commitment to when our country went to war with the Nazis.
There are many rumours in the press suggesting that Prime Minister Andy Burnham is preparing to announce support for the Rosebank oil field. Whether this is true or not, I am writing to urge you to ensure that he does not derail our progress on climate and energy security. Specifically, I call on you to urge Andy Burnham to publicly oppose the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields and put ordinary people, not profiteering oil companies, first.
I attach two photos of me campaigning with various groups outside the Crucible, opposing Rosebank.
The Government, BBC, newspapers and other media continue to fail to properly inform the public about the most frightening aspects of climate change. Very rarely are tipping points mentioned or explained. These are all now far more likely as the Earth has exceeded 1.5 degrees C of warming for the last 3 years. If AMOC collapses, for instance, the UK will no longer be able to feed its citizens.
In January 2025, the British Insurance Industry predicted that 4 billion people could be dead in this century due to the breakdown of our climate. We’re now a year and a half on from that report, and the silence from media and Government is deafening.
We must do far more to try to avoid this with a very rapid transition away from the use of fossil fuels, investing instead in insulation, heat pumps, renewable energy in all its different forms, battery storage and a modern electricity grid. Also, we must do far more to prepare for the even worse weather that is now inevitable, be it floods, storms, heatwaves or droughts.
True climate leadership must go hand-in-hand with economic justice for all communities. We cannot afford to lock ourselves into decades of fossil fuel pollution that won’t lower our bills. Instead, we need a commitment to a just transition that protects workers, secures our energy future, and brings well-paid, unionised green industrial jobs back into our local communities.
The reality is that jobs in the North Sea oil and gas industry have halved in the last decade, thanks to its dwindling reserves, despite previous governments issuing hundreds of new licences. New fields like Rosebank will not stem this decline; they only further delay the inevitable transition to renewables.
Clinging to oil and gas leaves workers behind, while oil and gas bosses make millions. By continuing to prioritise a declining industry with fewer returns and fewer jobs, we are leaving our future in the hands of an industry that only cares about protecting its profits.
10 major national trade unions and 1,900 trade unionists are demanding that the government reject the Rosebank oil field. These unions represent firefighters, ambulance staff, network management in the gas sector, teachers, nurses, cleaners, civil servants and more.
As my representative, please write to Andy Burnham and call on him to oppose fossil fuel expansion, prioritise a worker-led, green industrial strategy and prioritise educating the public about the climate emergency by screening the People’s Emergency Briefing film on prime-time TV.
I urge you to:
– Call on Andy Burnham to refuse development of the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields.
– Send him the MP briefing on Rosebank: https://www.stopcambo.org.uk/updates/mp-briefing-rosebank-oil-field
– Demand a commitment to a just but rapid transition that protects existing energy workers and brings well-paid, unionised green industrial jobs back into local communities.
Yours sincerely
Graham Wroe
TelltheTruthSheffield.org
Extinction RebellionBetter Buses for South YorkshireSheffield Green PartyClimate VigilSheffield Quakers #AMOC #AndyBurnham #climateChange #CrucibleTheatre #energy #environment #France #LouiseHaighMP #politics #Spain #StopRosebank #sustainability #TippingPoints #Wildfires -
So it turns out that #climatebreakdown is experiencing year 1 of #tippingpoints, phenomenons where one 'incident' creates an unstoppable chain of other catastrophic events. I give you: the literal #firehorse year promised by the Chinese Zodiac: "The rising air cools, becomes a #fire cloud that can generate its own winds & lightning. NASA calls them the "fire-breathing dragon of clouds".