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CNN: Earth ‘has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds’ – ‘Grim situation…unless we act decisively now’ – ‘Devastating consequences for people & nature’

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/climate/tipping-points-coral-reef-ice-amoc CNN: The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. As humans burn fossil fuels and ratchet up temperatures, it’s already […]

Lomborg: Fearmongering predictions about climate change keep falling apart

https://nypost.com/2025/09/15/opinion/fearmongering-predictions-about-climate-change-keep-falling-apart/ By Bjorn Lomborg Over the past half-century, environmentalists have predicted countless calamities. Their extreme predictions were typically wrong, their draconian countermeasures turned out to be mostly misguided, and we should be grateful we didn’t follow their harmful advice. We need to keep this history in mind as we are inundated with stories of climate […]

Oxford scientists’ nightmare prediction’: ‘The world will end in 25 years, humanity will die and towns will become slaughterhouses: – ‘Multiple existential threats’ including ‘rampant climate change’ – Warnings from ‘from highly respected scientists, not kooky doom-sayers’

https://archive.ph/OqFmv#selection-549.0-549.128 By CHRISTOPHER STEVENS, TV CRITIC Excerpt: In a game of Russian roulette with a standard Colt revolver, the chances of instant death are one-in-six. Terrifyingly, that’s the same as the odds of humanity being wiped out within 75 years – everyone dead in a cataclysmic and total breakdown of civilisation, according to Oxford University futurologist Toby […]

Here we go again! ‘Only 3 years left – new study warns the world is running out of time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change’

https://theconversation.com/only-3-years-left-new-study-warns-the-world-is-running-out-of-time-to-avoid-the-worst-impacts-of-climate-change-261229 By Piers Forster & Debbie Rosen Excerpt: The world has already reached the level where it has warmed so much that it cannot avoid significant impacts from climate change. There is no doubt we are in dangerous waters. … We need to face this head on: the window to stay within 1.5°C is essentially […]

Flashback 1989: Prominent environmentalist predicted world was on the brink of an ‘environmental Pearl Harbor — a global food shortage that could starve millions’ – Reality Check: FAIL

36 years ago today, Lester Brown's now-defunct @Worldwatch Institute predicted the world was on the brink of an "environmental Pearl Harbor — a global food shortage that could starve millions." Reality: Since 1990, global food production has doubled (on less land!) and global… pic.twitter.com/ZN4fRMZPkL — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) March 22, 2025

Wrong, The Guardian, There Are No Identifiable ‘Climate Tipping Points’

Wrong, The Guardian, There Are No Identifiable “Climate Tipping Points” By Linnea Lueken A recent article posted by The Guardian discusses funding given to UK research groups in an effort to track potential “climate tipping points” so forecasts can be made to warn about upcoming catastrophes. The premise that we are approaching dangerous and unprecedented climate tipping […]