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Tipping point. Irreversible. Ecosystems collapsing. Fisheries at risk. Carbon sink weakening. It's worse than we thought. People will die. Damn deniers!

Because if getting old while living alone is now part of the emissions ledger, then the list is effectively complete.

RCP8.5 is mostly dead, let's hope it becomes truly dead.

Paying one group to produce and another to consume does not guarantee usefulness. It guarantees activity.

Is there fuel available—and how long will it take to get it?

In case you haven't noticed, the media is stupid when it comes to weather.

The “Great Reset” promised a rapid economic transformation. What’s unfolding instead is a quiet unraveling—banks backtracking, companies revising targets, and governments hedging. Behind the rhetoric, reality is forcing...

New research on the Emeishan large igneous province shows atmospheric CO₂ fell by about 50% during early volcanism, likely driven by increased weathering from crustal uplift, challenging assumptions that large volcanic...

When a person with the right background and the right software can meaningfully engage with complex problems, the old lines start to blur.

A deep look into an interesting case of "correlation is not causation."

Climate science will not disappear. But, it may go underground and become a privately funded political tool.

The moral of the story may be that Earth’s oceans are less volatile than our coordinate systems. While the water creeps upward at a stately pace measured in millimetres per year, the reference frames used to describe it...

In climate policy, confidence should track evidence. And here, the evidence points not to imminent tropical marine extinction at 1.5 °C, but to a system that has endured comparable warming before without collapsing.

Complex systems demand humility. Restructuring global finance on the basis of uncertain nonlinear thresholds may prove to be its own form of tipping experiment.

This installment addresses one of the most consequential shifts embedded in the report: the transformation of climate policy from a legislative choice into a legal obligation...