As the world speeds towards 2C of global heating, the risks of extreme weather disasters and climate tipping points are increasing fast. But current economic models used by governments and financial institutions entirely miss such shocks. This is because the models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the climate system into uncharted territory.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/flawed-economic-models-mean-climate-crisis-could-crash-global-economy-experts-warn

As the world speeds towards 2C of global heating, the risks of extreme weather disasters and climate tipping points are increasing fast. But current economic models used by governments and financial institutions entirely miss such shocks. This is because the models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the climate system into uncharted territory.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/05/flawed-economic-models-mean-climate-crisis-could-crash-global-economy-experts-warn

Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climate, and the ultra-rich subjected to a global wealth tax, if new tax rules are agreed under the UN.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/01/fossil-fuel-firms-may-have-to-pay-for-climate-damage-under-proposed-un-tax

Fossil fuel companies could be forced to pay some of the price of their damage to the climate, and the ultra-rich subjected to a global wealth tax, if new tax rules are agreed under the UN.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/01/fossil-fuel-firms-may-have-to-pay-for-climate-damage-under-proposed-un-tax

Grim detail of anthropogenic #climatebreakdown:
“We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world with devastating consequences for people and nature,” says British global-systems researcher Tim Lenton... hopes currently being expressed of a temperature reset by reducing emissions after overshoot may be fanciful" #journalism #SciComm
The incomparable #FredPearce at
https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-degrees-tipping-points

Grim detail of anthropogenic #climatebreakdown:
“We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world with devastating consequences for people and nature,” says British global-systems researcher Tim Lenton... hopes currently being expressed of a temperature reset by reducing emissions after overshoot may be fanciful" #journalism #SciComm
The incomparable #FredPearce at
https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-degrees-tipping-points

For every dollar invested in protecting #nature, 30 dollars are spent on destroying it – that’s the central finding of the #UN State of Finance for Nature report.

Next time you see a #conservation or #treeplanting project by a large corporation, look into how much they conversely spent on exploiting planet and people.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166809

#greenwashing #environment #climatebreakdown

For every dollar invested in protecting #nature, 30 dollars are spent on destroying it – that’s the central finding of the #UN State of Finance for Nature report.

Next time you see a #conservation or #treeplanting project by a large corporation, look into how much they conversely spent on exploiting planet and people.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166809

#greenwashing #environment #climatebreakdown

In 2024, just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis.

While clean energy and electrification is already receiving nearly twice the investment of fossil fuels globally, carbon majors are clinging on to outdated, polluting products.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/21/carbon-dioxide-co2-emissions-fossil-fuel-firms-study

In 2024, just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis.

While clean energy and electrification is already receiving nearly twice the investment of fossil fuels globally, carbon majors are clinging on to outdated, polluting products.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/21/carbon-dioxide-co2-emissions-fossil-fuel-firms-study

Important letter in British Medical Journal #bmj on non-violent civil obedience (in case of emergency, break glass!) #climatebreakdown #HealthforXR
‘If we punish the doctors who shout for help, who is left to resuscitate society?’
https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s25/rr

Important letter in British Medical Journal #bmj on non-violent civil obedience (in case of emergency, break glass!) #climatebreakdown #HealthforXR
‘If we punish the doctors who shout for help, who is left to resuscitate society?’
https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s25/rr

Over the past two decades, seaweed blooms have expanded by a staggering 13.4% a year in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific, with the most dramatic increases occurring after 2008, according to researchers at the University of South Florida.

This shift could darken the waters below, changing their ecology and geochemistry, and may also accelerate climate breakdown.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/19/scientists-seaweed-blooms-expand-worldwide-ocean-pollution

Over the past two decades, seaweed blooms have expanded by a staggering 13.4% a year in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific, with the most dramatic increases occurring after 2008, according to researchers at the University of South Florida.

This shift could darken the waters below, changing their ecology and geochemistry, and may also accelerate climate breakdown.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/19/scientists-seaweed-blooms-expand-worldwide-ocean-pollution

In a reversal from previous years’ pollution reductions, the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before.

The increase in greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to a combination of a cool winter, the explosive growth of datacenters and cryptocurrency mining, and higher natural gas prices.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/us-carbon-emissions-increase-2025

In a reversal from previous years’ pollution reductions, the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before.

The increase in greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to a combination of a cool winter, the explosive growth of datacenters and cryptocurrency mining, and higher natural gas prices.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/us-carbon-emissions-increase-2025