The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge.
The world was lucky to have so far avoided a major shock and was living on borrowed time, with action needed to diversify crops and boost natural predators of pests.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/20/crop-pests-food-losses-climate-crisis
4:06am Tipping Point by Michael Dease from Reaching Out
#MichaelDease #TippingPoint #JazzNetwork #KUVO
How the planet fared in #2025 ā the good, the bad, and the ugly
Here are the big #climate stories we covered in 2025.
#Windfire consumes Los Angeles
Trump takes takes a hatchet to environmental regulations and #EPA
Extreme #flooding is here to stay
#Datacenters emerge as a major environmental threat
#Earth crosses an ominous planetary boundary and #tippingpoint
Countries cop-out at #COP30
Hurricane season ends without a single US landfall
https://grist.org/climate/climate-environmental-stories-2025/
I am reading āRevenge of the Tipping Pointā by Malcolm Gladwell.
I love the stories which shows the (eco)system and dynamics around (and leading to) events, showing how social, technological, political, etc are interconnected.
We're seeing fewer decent-paid jobs and the need for universal basic income as we install more machines that replace former high-level work
Dodging Icebergs and Storms on Hunt for #Ocean #TippingPoint
If too much excess water makes its way into North #Atlantic, scientists fear it could disrupt processes that draw warm water up from the tropics. The consequences for the climate would be far-reaching: frostier winters in Britain, stronger hurricanes in the Eastern United States and, perhaps most troublingly, shifts in the rain belts that feed people across Africa, South America and Asia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/climate/amoc-collapse-ocean-current-arctic-climate-change.html
https://archive.ph/ZN5LZ
2-Dec-2025
Delayed #climate #mitigation could trigger a socioeconomic #tippingPoint
Problems accumulate silently for decades because their effects are masked by the inertia of the system. But eventually, you hit an inflection point where mounting pressure forces a rapid phase transition. The status quo collapses overnight. Thatās what Lenin meant about there being decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.
So my Mum's obsessed with TV game shows and ooh you bet I got mad when the host mispronounced Albany
(Edit: it was that bloody Tipping Point show)
#Albany #AlbanyWA #Kinjarling #MenangBoodja #TippingPointAustralia #TippingPoint
So far, rich countries have pledged just $788.8m to the UNās Loss and Damage fund. Thatās 44 US cents for each of the 1.8 billion citizens in the Climate Vulnerable Forum nations: the sum total of our ācompensationā for the disruption, disaster and death we have caused.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Gli occhi del mondo sono puntati su BelĆ©m, la porta d'ingresso dell'Amazzonia brasiliana. Ć qui che si sta svolgendo la COP30, un vertice delle Nazioni Unite sul clima che non potrebbe avere una scenografia piĆ¹ simbolica e, al contempo, allarmante.
https://scienzamagia.eu/ambiente-e-territorio/la-cop30-nel-cuore-dellamazzonia/
#AmazƓnia4 #Amazzoniabrasiliana #CarlosNobre #Cop30 #RiodelleAmazzoni #savanizzazione #tippingpoint
the carbon level has reached 426.68 parts per million. Well over scientistsā so called āsafeā limit of 350. According to them, the planet is heading towards oblivion.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/world-on-fire?publication_id=438146&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&r=f8a6 Our planet is at a tipping point, not just in terms of our climate, but in our culture. Fossil fuel companies aided by PR agencies are contributing to a misinformation crisis that could halt climate progress. #climatecrisis #tippingpoint
Heatwaves will not revert back towards preindustrial conditions for at least a millennium after net zero is reached.
āThe thing is, if we delay net zero ā up to 30 years and even longer ā those impacts are only going to get worse. Weāre already locked into some, but the longer we leave net zero, the worse itās going to be.ā
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
In July, the UNās International Court of Justice declared the climate crisis an āurgent and existential threatā that member states were bound by international law to tackle. āWeāre at a legal tipping point,ā Adam Weiss, chief programs and impact officer at ClientEarth, told the Guardian. āThe law is going to be the power that forces us in the direction that we need to go.ā [MotherJones]
#UN #Court #Justice #Climatecrisis
#Tippingpoint
Climate tipping points are close: Scientists urge radical action before it's too late https://phys.org/news/2025-11-climate-scientists-urge-radical-action.html
#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #TippingPoint #TippingPoints
The world is still on track for a catastrophic 2.6C increase in temperature as countries have not made sufficiently strong climate pledges, while emissions from fossil fuels have hit a record high, two major reports have found.
Despite their promises, governmentsā new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Two key questions at the heart of Cop30:
1ļøā£ What can the world do to stop global heating accelerating further and faster?
An overwhelming majority of people ā 89% globally ā are concerned about the climate crisis and want action.
2ļøā£ Can it be done in time to prevent unstoppable catastrophe?
The evidence of climate breakdown is gathering fast: the record-breaking Hurricane Melissa that devastated Jamaica last month, temperatures climbing above 50C in the Middle East, and ocean temperatures soaring. Scientists have warned that the first of a series of ātipping pointsā already appears to have been reached.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Gates vs Reality
Gates: Funds are very limited, so the delegates at this monthās climate summit in Brazil should direct money away from ānear-term emissions goalsā towards climate āadaptationā and spending on poverty and disease.
Reality: The net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
