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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Elon Musk has proposed using AI-controlled satellites to help regulate Earth’s temperature. The spacecraft could be positioned near Earth-Sun Lagrange points to slightly reduce the sunlight reaching Earth.
The idea resembles scientific proposals for giant space-based sunshades near the Sun-Earth L1 point, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Such a system could theoretically reduce solar radiation and help offset some effects of global warming.
However, building and operating a planetary-scale space shield would require enormous engineering capabilities. It could also produce unpredictable environmental consequences and raise major questions about who would control such a powerful climate-modification system.
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“Some of these abrupt changes will be difficult to stop.” https://trib.al/Ek8CZTL
Ice Ice Baby
The Climate Is Officially Getting So Bad That It’s Unrecoverable
“The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss…”
https://futurism.com/climate-officially-unrecoverable?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUl98ZjbGNrBSX3SmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEe-SppUaf78YQojgRh_28BrGcjcX-gjV0ckggCA6UvWVwduhTXNfoLdROtoW4_aem_LTTG5aaqYgjJ4rkylRYm6A
The melting of Antarctic sea ice may be even worse than we realized.
New research suggests that the region is experiencing rapid and abrupt disruptions that could represent a global climate “tipping point,” past which the effects of climate change become irreversible and accelerate in intensity.
“Antarctica is showing worrying signs of rapid change across its ice, ocean and ecosystems,” Nerile Abram, a professor at the Australian National University and lead author of a new study published in the journal Nature, told Agence France-Presse. “Some of these abrupt changes will be difficult to stop.”
The ice melt directly contributes to rising sea levels, but that’s only one part of the problem. Ice sheets reflect a significant amount of sunlight, and once they shrink or disappear, more solar radiation gets trapped in the ocean, contributing to warming (not to mention endangering marine life). That creates a deadly feedback loop: more warming means more melting, and the cycle goes on, threatening to snowball out of control.
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”Kysymys ei enää kuulu tapahtuuko ruokakriisi, vaan milloin se alkaa”, IMF:n asiantuntijat konkretisoivat tilanteen.
Ruokakriisiä pidetään jo lähes varmana – IMF kertoo, miten nyt kannattaa toimia
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Elintarvikkeiden hinnat uhkaavat nousta jopa kestämättömän korkeiksi kaikkialla poikkeuksellisen voimakkaan El Niño -sääilmiön mahdollisuus ja Lähi-idän sodan kärjistymisen takia. Kansainvälisen valuuttarahaston IMF:n finanssiosaston osastopäällikkö David Amaglobeli, julkisen talouden osaston menopolitiikkayksikön päällikkö Rodrigo Cerda, senioriekonomisti Tewodaj Mogues ja julkisen talouden osaston apulaisjohtaja Patrizia Tumbarello arvioivat raportissaan, että tilanne uhkaa pahimmillaan miljoonien ihmisten, erityisesti pienitulois
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An inconvenient truth. https://trib.al/w7wOj15
Drumroll Please
Scientists Just Found Who’s Causing Global Warming
You might want to sit down for this one.
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Are you sitting down? Because there’s some news that might shock you.
A recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has found that the richest 10 percent of the world population are responsible for an astonishing two-thirds of observable climate warming since 1990. Basically, that small minority of the wealthiest among us contribute nearly seven times as much to extreme climate change as the entire lower-earning 90 percent of the planet.
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“If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50 percent of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990,”
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India warns of major ‘food crisis’ in coming months amid El Nino and global conflicts
Foreign minister’s warning comes as oil prices climb sharply this month and El Nino breaks records
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/el-nino-iran-ukraine-war-food-crisis-jaishankar-b3058979.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUrDS5jbGNrBSsND2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEej7pZ9XolZ5HDQbCxW-HTXm0D8M9calDJkReMdfHJsvNzQH6Deh_Kw972ev0_aem_uxNjsMuyDlnOTMWhOBlmNg
India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar has warned that the world faces a “major food crisis” in the coming months, as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East compound the effects of a super El Nino.
Speaking at an event organised by the Asia Society in New York, Mr Jaishankar said the two conflicts had “a devastating impact” on the economies of the Global South, and that energy, food, fertiliser and finance were all under strain at once.
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Rising temperatures now allow coffee to be grown in Italy. In Sicily, the Morettino family has completed its first harvest, showing how climate change is reshaping crops worldwide.
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A United Nations report argues that the world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy,” meaning some water systems have been depleted or degraded so severely that returning to their historical condition may no longer be possible.
The report defines water bankruptcy as the persistent overuse of rivers, aquifers, wetlands, and other freshwater systems beyond what can safely be replenished. That means a region can still experience occasional floods or wet years while remaining fundamentally water bankrupt.
The scale is already enormous: about 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, 3.5 billion lack adequate sanitation, and nearly 4 billion experience severe water scarcity for at least part of the year.
Researchers point to hotspots including the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and the American Southwest, but stress that the consequences extend far beyond those regions through food systems, trade, migration, and political instability. Rather than treating water shortages as temporary emergencies, they argue governments need to manage them as long-term structural problems — reducing further damage, reshaping water-intensive industries, and adapting to a future with less water.
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United Nations is warning that water shortages are becoming a long-term global challenge rather than a series of temporary crises.
The term “global water bankruptcy” describes situations where rivers, aquifers, wetlands and other freshwater systems are being used or degraded faster than they can naturally recover. A region can still experience heavy rainfall or flooding while its underlying freshwater resources remain severely depleted.
The scale is already significant. According to the figures provided, around 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, while 3.5 billion lack adequate sanitation and nearly 4 billion experience severe water scarcity during at least part of the year.
The risks are especially serious in water-stressed regions such as the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and the American Southwest. But the effects can spread globally through agriculture, food prices, trade, migration and economic disruption.
The report argues that governments need to treat water management as a long-term structural issue by reducing overuse, protecting freshwater ecosystems and adapting industries to a future where reliable water supplies may be more limited.
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The United Nations is warning that humanity’s water problem is becoming something more permanent than a series of droughts and temporary shortages.
A new United Nations University report uses a striking term for the situation: “global water bankruptcy.” The idea is that in many regions, humanity is drawing down its freshwater “savings” faster than natural systems can replenish them.
That includes more than the water we see in rivers and reservoirs. Groundwater aquifers, lakes, wetlands and other freshwater ecosystems are also being depleted or degraded. A region can experience a major rainfall event or even severe flooding while its long-term freshwater reserves continue to decline.
The numbers are already enormous.
Around 2.2 billion people still lack safely managed drinking water, while roughly 3.5 billion lack safely managed sanitation. The UN report also says about 4 billion people experience severe water scarcity for at least one month every year.
And the problem isn’t simply that there isn’t enough rain.
The report points to overuse, pollution, climate change and the degradation of natural water systems. More than half of the world’s large lakes have declined since the early 1990s, around 35% of natural wetlands have been lost since the 1970s, and roughly 70% of major aquifers show long-term declines.
The consequences don’t remain confined to the places where water disappears.
Agriculture depends on reliable freshwater. When supplies become less predictable, food production can be affected, potentially pushing up prices and disrupting trade. Water shortages can also increase pressure on communities, economies and migration patterns.
The challenge, according to the report, is therefore not simply finding more water. It is changing how societies use, manage and protect the water that already exists.
That means reducing chronic overuse, protecting wetlands and other freshwater ecosystems, managing groundwater more carefully, improving water efficiency and preparing agriculture and other industries for less reliable supplies.
Water doesn’t have to disappear completely for a society to face a water crisis.
Sometimes the warning sign is that we’re using the account faster than nature can refill it.
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Norway is adding carbon capture to Klemetsrud, the country’s largest waste-to-energy plant, sitting just outside the Norwegian capital city Oslo.
The plant burns about three hundred fifty thousand tonnes of rubbish a year, waste that cannot be recycled. From twenty twenty-nine, new capture equipment will trap around four hundred thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, nearly all of the plant’s emissions.
The captured carbon will be compressed, shipped and buried permanently under the North Sea seabed. Tech giant Microsoft has already bought one point one million tonnes of carbon removal credits from the project, betting that waste plants can become climate assets.
Burning rubbish already beats landfilling it, since rotting waste leaks powerful methane gas into the air. Adding capture goes one step further, turning a disposal necessity into a machine that actively pulls carbon from the cycle and locks it away for good.
Klemetsrud is part of Norway’s Longship project, the country’s flagship carbon capture and storage program. If it works as planned, every major waste burner in Europe will have a proven template for cleaning up its smoke for good. That would turn a dirty necessity into a climate tool.
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More than two dozen lawsuits have accused the industry of deceiving the public about climate change, with claims seeking potentially billions in damages to help pay the costs imposed by climate-related extreme weather.
Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/big-oil-asks-supreme-court-to-kill-climate-lawsuits-before-trial/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=null&fbclid=IwdGRjcAUyPsJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtENMwIfe08qoxyL9uK7TKAA_OaVHE2nzubS-Qp_lWi91TJX8jifqR2O-wPh_aem_trycxYzI6tZVNdUKO57YZw
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United Nations University researchers say we have entered what they call “global water bankruptcy.” Not a slogan. A diagnosis. In many places, rivers, aquifers and wetlands have been drawn down or harmed so badly that restoring them to what they were is no longer realistic. The scale is already vast. About 4 billion people face severe water scarcity for at least one month each year. Nearly three-quarters of the world lives in countries labeled water insecure or even critically water insecure. For decades farms, cities and industry leaned on flowing rivers and on underground stores to keep up with demand. In too many regions, the withdrawals outpaced what rain and snow could return. Pollution cut into what was still usable. Think in simple budget terms. The water that renews each year is income. Deep reserves are savings. We kept spending beyond income, then dipped into savings to cover the gap, again and again. Push hard enough and the system changes. Heavy groundwater pumping compresses sediments. The land subsides. Storage volume vanishes. Even when wetter years come back, that lost space does not. This is what the report means by water bankruptcy, long-term overuse plus damage that cannot realistically be undone. It does not mean every nation has run dry. It means enough critical systems are failing that the shock spreads through harvests, trade and whole economies. The pain lands first on small farmers and on communities with the fewest resources to adapt. The authors are blunt that action still matters. Protect the reserves that remain. Bring use back within what nature can replenish. Cut pollution. Safeguard essential supplies for people who need them most.
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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.”
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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.
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It’s “nearly a decade earlier than previous estimates.” https://trib.al/5EkRksv
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.
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In the face of terrible crises, it can feel right to shock people into action. But what if that has the opposite effect?
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.
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Deep and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are vital if peak global warming is to be kept to 1.7C-1.8C above pre-industrial levels by mid-century
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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
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“Climate disinformation is not only a problem of false rumours and mistruths; it is also a problem of power, incentives and accountability.”
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The three main greenhouse gases reached unprecedented concentrations globally in 2025, continuing an upward trend that will lead to more global warming.
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595885-major-greenhouse-gases-rise-again-to-record-levels/
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In 1985 Carl Sagan explained to Congress about greenhouse gases.
“A little greenhouse effect is a good thing, but there is a delicate balance of these gases, and too much or too little greenhouse effect can mean too high or too low a temperature. And here we are pouring enormous quantities of CO2 and these other gases into the atmosphere every year, with hardly any concern about its long-term and global consequences”.
“We are all in this greenhouse together”.
“We are passing on extremely grave problems for our children when the time to solve the problems is now”.
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The crucial Atlantic current system that brings warmth to Europe has slowed 14 per cent in 30 years, according to an analysis of how much heat the ocean is releasing to the atmosphere.
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595629-satellites-show-some-of-the-strongest-evidence-the-amoc-is-weakening/
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We’d Be Entering an Ice Age Right Now if Climate Change Hadn’t Terminated It, Study Suggests
https://www.sciencealert.com/wed-be-entering-an-ice-age-right-now-if-climate-change-hadnt-terminated-it-study-suggests?fbclid=IwdGRjcAVT389jbGNrBVPRumV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEfzmqPW29cVDmMmTLaUqdEYctQtgU3x3fdGGQTtRfeYAZRKK4pvn5qa1JpThc_aem_y6pZn3fQuAODg-9LPN2MiA