The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has unleashed their Special Report on the impact of global warming reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
“This IPCC report is set to outline a rescue plan for humanity,”
“1.5°C is the new 2°C,”
If we stick to Paris Climate Agreement commitments, we could still see a global warming of about 3°C by 2100.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Weeble Wobble
Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say
“Policymakers and the public remain largely unaware of the risks posed by what would effectively be a point-of-no-return transition.”
https://futurism.com/science-energy/earth-uninhabitable-climate-change?fbclid=IwVERDUARhHMtleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR65LgytLnpzeOboZMNPY0FUoIJbxB68KMnwq1WfT64odMQLc2qjWR6-JsA-wQ_aem_g-zdpdztUNLYCm8uUVG6LQ
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-climate-scientist-large-errors-global.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Heat Death
In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures
It’d be funny if it wasn’t so dark.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-temperatures
Tomi Engdahl says:
Brace Yourselves
Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People
“It was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity.”
https://futurism.com/science-energy/el-nino-killed-50-million?fbclid=IwdGRjcARy2ydjbGNrBHLa3mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHiru0fFNVTOKAFqJYEa4tcnGCQqC7WEdFED8rdSYPuQ0dxTqxYkC6aukbWfH_aem_OK9x8OjRlhGHX8YiJBRwCA
As if oil shortages, perpetual wars, and the existential angst of AI weren’t stressful enough, there’s an El Niño brewing — and it’s looking like it’ll be one of the most severe in over a century.
According to numerous weather models, this year’s El Niño — a prolonged climate event featuring unusually warm temperatures, which pops up every couple of years — could easily be the most severe we’ve ever experienced in the modern age. This year’s warm spell could supercharge ocean temperatures by as much as 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the Wall Street Journal reports, resulting in widespread droughts for some, floods for others, and perhaps most chillingly, chaos for global food supplies.
Tomi Engdahl says:
UK warned to prepare for 40C summers threatening British way of life
The Climate Change Committee warned that 92 per cent of homes are expected to overheat by 2050
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-40c-summer-climate-change-committee-b2980104.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAR6pCpjbGNrBHqj7WV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkYW2NPXblR8QatXurhL8flzOB3qxaDfd6W3iysbvpE1H8r0UjpxNsVQ1ycF_aem_bpIVyjvMVjH1HWMQckZp-g
Tomi Engdahl says:
Need a Breather
Remember How Sucking Carbon Out of the Air Was Going to Save the Planet? We Have Terrible News
To say we’re way behind schedule is an understatement.
https://futurism.com/science-energy/carbon-capture-update?fbclid=IwdGRjcASSu9xjbGNrBJK7aWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHo1UnBerFLNjmwsflYbVSwLeJKxDBsxzvMAO-Wurq7GtdbYCEGs-dn6Oaa1__aem_QYZzuG5im-i7ruxZvni71A
The idea of sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere to combat climate change might be a necessary intervention, but it always sounded like a longshot.
Unfortunately, it seems like the strategy is already hitting a wall. A new report published this week found that ongoing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) efforts are barely putting a dent in the fight against global warming — and that for them to start making an impact, they would need to be scaled up at a rate that rivals the adoption of solar panels.
In other words, we’re not doing it big enough, and we’re not doing it fast enough. And the longer we wait to get the ball rolling, the more carbon removal we’ll need to do to mitigate climate impacts.
“Countries have pledged around 2.7 billion [metric tons] of carbon removal by 2035 and about 3.6 billion by 2050, but climate pathways require much more, especially in the long term,” report coauthor William Lamb, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told The Guardian. “This leaves a gap that grows significantly over time.”
Scientists generally agree that CDR efforts will play a small but necessary role in limiting global warming to within 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit — but only as a complement to the primary goal of aggressively reducing our emissions, and eventually hitting net zero emissions by 2050. The International Panel on Climate Change considers carbon removal to be “unavoidable,” or essential to achieving climate targets,