The idea of a ‘tipping point’ is more than academic. Once you trip over it you are on a downhill slide towards Hell at the bottom of the hill Featured image: Shutterstock from the featured article.
An EOS article published today puts exclamation marks around yesterday’s post: “Thawing permafrost in the Arctic warns we are probably crossing several critical tipping points on the road to runaway warming and near-term human extinction“. “The increasing incidence of wildfire …
Part 6 of David Spratt’s guidebook to events along the road to Hothouse Hell: Burning Siberian tundra, taiga forests and peat soils are all contributing to thawing permafrost and pushing greenhouse gas emissions past an important tipping point Spratt focuses …
Tipping points should be identified early and acted on fast to tackle the climate crisis. Social change needs to be dramatically accelerated. by Damian Carrington, 11/02/2022 in The GuardianIdentify A-ha moments to trigger fast climate action, say UK scientists: Using …
Tipping points should be identified early and acted on fast to tackle the climate crisis. Social change needs to be dramatically accelerated. by Damian Carrington, 11/02/2022 in The GuardianIdentify A-ha moments to trigger fast climate action, say UK scientists: Using …
If Howard and I are right, we have already passed several tipping points triggering positive feedbacks that will cause global warming to increase exponentially towards a point-of-no return where global mass extinction (including humans) is almost inevitable (he links the same science articles I use in this context). To avoid this end we need to turn the barbecue around to roast the pigs and their wooden-headed puppets first.
If you want a future, it is time to take global warming seriously and totally mobilize to fight the fires driving us towards Hothouse Hell. Bill McKibben, one of America’s most respected environmentalists and a founder of the international 350.org, …
A by-election is being held in Mulgrave District on Saturday 18 November to elect a new member of Parliament, after the resignation of The Hon. Daniel Andrews. Anyone enrolled to vote in Mulgrave District can vote from Wednesday 8 November …
Labor Gov’t slashes vital Antarctic research by $25 M while promoting fossil fuel production/export and gifting $200 million to Aussie sport despite the desperate need to understand how unprecedented Antarctic ice and oceanic conditions relate to the climate crisis. Anthony …
Unedited links etc to climate news sources I trust The Age reports Global warming to cost Australia up to $423 billion over 40 years https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/global-warming-to-cost-australia-up-to-423-billion-over-40-years-20230823-p5dyvx.html. This relies on the IPCC’s consistent downplaying of risks in complex dynamical systems that are …
