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.
Your Traffic light Voting Guide to elect five members for the Electorate of Ginninderra is now available. You can print the guide at home and take it to the polling booth to help steer your choices as you fill in …
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 …
