https://youtu.be/m74LbxaRwNU?is=haeoI2WZllWbnUJM

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595885-major-greenhouse-gases-rise-again-to-record-levels/

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Global warming could hit 2.8C by the end of the century, UN scientists say
The United Nations on Wednesday released its annual ‘Emissions Gap’ report, detailing multiple 1.5C overshoot scenarios
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/climate-change-effects-global-warming-paris-agreement-b3070633.html?loginSuccessful=true&fbclid=IwdGRzaAVICn1jbGNrBUgKcGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe4FPjOoSdkD_CovpPTqJnmdb6qSY56tjmMh47D0PabXlT_0ZLacnk4QWpQyM_aem_UajBBcPZV8gaYkIBOVoFiQ

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/18/the-problem-with-telling-people-the-world-is-ending?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=fb_us&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1792327843

These days, it’s easy to succumb to hopelessness. Whether you’re thinking about the climate crisis, the prospect of AI apocalypse, war or political turmoil, the list of challenges facing humanity can seem insurmountable.

It certainly feels unprecedented, and much of it may be. The sense of impending doom, on the other hand, is nothing new. And what we have learned from the past is that doomerism can lead to paralysis. If everyone freezes, then nothing changes – but if we want to have a chance of mitigating some of the threats I’ve mentioned then action is what’s required.

In 1947, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created an infamous magazine cover with a “Doomsday Clock”. The hands move closer to midnight whenever events push humanity a little closer to catastrophe. They move back when we make the world a little safer. The original setting was seven minutes to midnight, and the hands are now a mere 85 seconds away.

The Doomsday Clock was a particularly memorable form of crisis communication. The idea was to wake people from their day-to-day routines and help them realise the grave risks facing us. As such, it stands in a long tradition of debate about how to inform, warn and inspire members of the public to take action.

On one end of the spectrum are the doomers. These are often activists and whistleblowers who feel a genuine sense of dread about imminent disaster, and want to inspire the same alarm in others. Recently, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon made headlines by arguing that frontier AI models pose an existential risk to humanity.

We also included a text loaded with doom and gloom that told participants: “If your anxiety about climate change is dominated by fears of starving polar bears, glaciers melting and sea levels rising, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a young adult today. And yet the swelling seas – and the cities they will drown – have so dominated the picture of climate change/global warming that they have blinded us to other threats, many much closer at hand and much more catastrophic …”

This terrifying passage was the one that proved most effective at getting people to spread it on the internet or social media. But like other fear appeals, it failed in inspiring real action: it was the single worst message for getting people to make the time and effort to mitigate climate effects – by planting trees, for example. It also failed to increase belief in the climate emergency or support for climate policies.

This absolutely doesn’t mean we should avoid sharing the facts about the climate crisis. The message that emphasised the overwhelming scientific consensus noted that the “Earth is warming and climate change is happening” due to human activity. It was more effective than negativity on every outcome we measured, except for sharing on the internet. It conveyed the facts in a sober manner, with the backing of 99% of climate scientists.

What this shows is that, instead of making people feel inept and miserable, we need to take the exact opposite approach. Scientific consensus isn’t the only powerfully motivating message.

If we want to motivate people in the face of dire threats, we must give them a reason to hope. Without that, we are destined to doomscroll while the world burns.

Climate Breakthrough
You Know That Terrifying Global Warning Threshold They’ve Been Worried About for a Decade? Climate Change Is Speeding Up So Much That Now We’re Due to Cross It In Just Over a Year
It’s “nearly a decade earlier than previous estimates.”
https://futurism.com/science-energy/global-warning-threshold-climate-change-speeding-up-2028?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVCBxljbGNrBUIG22V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeJ8apB4NaWKN3hgnhHgwZbOOMJshP6xjitc_pPVwBkHOAcXHamfVHQsiT10g_aem_7ZguUy-RYZqEBg8YyBifBg

In December 2015, 195 countries at the UN Climate Change Conference signed the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change. The treaty’s overarching goal was to keep the “temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”

While unquestionably meant well, the agreement has quickly turned into little more than a footnote as global warming has stormed ahead. Scientists have long warned that we’re on a path to blaze past that foreboding threshold in a matter of years, possibly by 2030.

The rate of global warming recently doubled — and Earth is now set to breach the 1.5 °C threshold by 2028.

Recent observational climate analysis shows that the rate of global warming has doubled over the past decade, surging from 0.20°C per decade between 1971 and 2025 to 0.40°C per decade in recent years.

This sharp acceleration, driven largely by intense warming across Asia, Eurasia, and polar regions, bypasses previous climate projections that anticipated a more gradual increase. As a result, scientists warn that the crucial 1.5°C global temperature threshold set by international climate agreements will likely be crossed permanently by 2028—almost ten years sooner than earlier estimates predicted.

Surpassing the 1.5°C mark permanently signals a profound shift into uncharted environmental territory, significantly amplifying the risk of severe weather events, ecosystem collapse, and irreversible sea-level rise. Existing climate models failed to capture this sudden surge in temperature, highlighting a critical gap in current forecasting capabilities. To prevent even more catastrophic climate outcomes beyond the 1.5°C threshold, researchers emphasize that global policymakers must move beyond standard target dates and immediately implement unprecedented reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

source: Nature Publishing Group. (2026). A recent doubling of global warming rate signals a 1.5 °C breach by 2028. NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science.

A study by Stockholm University and ETH Zurich scientists found that all rainwater on Earth is unsafe to drink due to the levels of PFAS, or toxic chemicals.

These PFAS or ‘forever chemicals’ are becoming a part of a future reality that humans must, unfortunately, learn to live with.

Forever chemicals or PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are aptly named due to their extremely slow disintegration. PFAS were first found in shampoo, packaging, and even makeup but have begun to spread into our earth.

A professor at Stockholm University and lead author of the study, Ian Cousins noted, “There is nowhere on Earth where the rain would be safe to drink, according to the measurements that we have taken.”