Scientists studying Arctic plants say the ecosystems that host life in some of the most inhospitable reaches of the planet are changing in unexpected ways in an “early warning sign” for a region upended by climate change.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/arctic-plant-study-warning-climate-change
Rich countries are dragging their feet on producing new plans to combat the climate crisis, thereby putting the poor into greater danger.
All governments are supposed to publish new plans this year on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but so far only a small majority have done so, and some of the plans submitted have been inadequate to the scale of action needed.
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The overwhelming majority of people in the world – between 80% and 89%, according to a growing number of peer-reviewed scientific studies – want their governments to take stronger climate action.
But at least for now, this global climate majority is a silent majority.
The current mismatch between public will and government action amounts to a deficit in democracy.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2025/apr/23/climate-action-public-support
The world’s coral reefs have been pushed into “uncharted territory” by the worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet’s reefs.
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"People are instinctively drawn to majority views and are also more likely to do something if they think others are doing it too. Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed." New data against misperceptions: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/activate-climate-silent-majority-support-supercharge-action
The home-wrecking storms and floods that swept Europe last year affected 413,000 people, a report has found, as fossil fuel pollution forced the continent to suffer through its hottest year on record.
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The climate crisis has tripled the length of ocean heatwaves, a study has found, supercharging deadly storms and destroying critical ecosystems such as kelp forests and coral reefs.
Half of the marine heatwaves since 2000 would not have happened without global heating, which is caused by burning fossil fuels. The heatwaves have not only become more frequent but also more intense: 1C warmer on average, but much hotter in some places, the scientists said.
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Last year marked a historic and deeply troubling threshold: for the first time, global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Without drastic and immediate climate action, this breach will not be temporary. The consequences – rising sea levels, extreme weather and devastating loss of biodiversity – are no longer projections for the distant future. They are happening now, affecting millions of lives, and likely to cause trillions in damages in decades to come.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/climate-solutions-extreme-options
The world won’t stay below 1.5C of warming, largely because we’re already there.
“We now expect a 3C world,” states a March analysis by Morgan Stanley. This level of global heating above preindustrial times is well beyond the 2C limit agreed to by governments and would lead to catastrophic heatwaves, floods, economic strife and other upheavals.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/02/us-banks-climate-goals-fail-air-conditioning
The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.
The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.
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Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer – an almost four-fold increase on some estimates.
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Normally, two-thirds of sea level rise is due to melting ice from mountain glaciers and Greenland and Antarctic ice caps, and one-third from the thermal expansion of the oceans.
Last year, the hottest year on record, this was reversed, with warmer water accounting for two-thirds of the sea level rise of 0.59cm (0.23in) – considerably more than the 0.43cm scientists were expecting.
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Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.
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Taking strong action to tackle the climate crisis will increase countries’ economic growth, rather than damage their finances as critics of net zero policies have claimed, research from the world’s economic watchdog has found.
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Retreating glaciers threaten the food and water supply of 2 billion people around the world, the UN has warned, as current “unprecedented” rates of melting will have unpredictable consequences.
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last year's feature on the #NorthAtlantic #TippingPoint now in the #OpenArchives https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/03/tipping-over.html #science #ClimateCatastrophe #Arctic #greenland
Do you think, Earth's system has elements that have a tipping point, a threshold from when on they unstoppably glide into a completely different, then-stable state?
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#CETA #TrumpTradeWars
#GeoPol #TrumpCoup #TrumpTariffs
#USpol #CANpoli #EUpol
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...must be revived and pursued at full speed.
Interestingly, #Ankara declared that it would like to join such a structure. Good.2)
Now is the time for huge reforms, this is a #TippingPoint in world history (#Zeitenwende.) The momentum...
...might cary the world in either direction.
2) Given #Erdogan's previous behavoir, the...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement
A lesson in what is wrong with the British education system #tippingpoint
Is the Amazon region more resilient than assumed? A study shows that regional mean annual precipitation isn’t going to change much even if the region were completely deforested. This is contrary to previous findings that beyond a threshold, it would reach a #tippingpoint & turn into a savannah. Using a global storm-resolving model, #MPIM scientists A. Yoon & C. Hohenegger show: the loss of moisture created by plants is compensated by a large-scale atmospheric feedback.1/2
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