Once Upon A Time, Climate Collapse Could Maybe Possibly Happen Fast

Another tipping point could happen soon, and this is all your faul

Climate Collapse Could Happen Fast

Ever since some of the earliest projections of climate change were made back in the 1970s, they have been remarkably accurate at predicting the rate at which global temperatures would rise. For decades, climate change has proceeded at roughly the expected pace, says David Armstrong McKay, a climate scientist at the University of Exeter, in England. Its impacts, however, are accelerating—sometimes far faster than expected.

“Remarkably accurate”

Anyhow

In fact, a growing number of climate scientists now believe we may be careening toward so-called tipping points, where incremental steps along the same trajectory could push Earth’s systems into abrupt or irreversible change—leading to transformations that cannot be stopped even if emissions were suddenly halted. “The Earth may have left a ‘safe’ climate state beyond 1°C global warming,” Armstrong McKay and his co-authors concluded in Science last fall. If these thresholds are passed, some of global warming’s effects—like the thaw of permafrost or the loss of the world’s coral reefs—are likely to happen more quickly than expected. On the whole, however, the implications of blowing past these tipping points remain among climate change’s most consequential unknowns: We don’t really know when or how fast things will fall apart. (snip)

One grim paper that came out last year, titled “Climate End Game,” mapped out some of the potential catastrophes that could follow a “tipping cascade,” and considered the possibility that “a sudden shift in climate could trigger systems failures that unravel societies across the globe.” Chris Field, the director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and a contributor to several IPCC reports, warned that “at some point, the impacts of the climate crisis may become so severe that we lose the ability to work together to deliver solutions.”

Every single paragraph is loaded with Doom. It’s what they know. But, again, the most interesting part is that despite all the prognostications of doom, few Warmists actually practice what they preach. I wonder why?

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10 Responses to “Once Upon A Time, Climate Collapse Could Maybe Possibly Happen Fast”

  1. H says:

    Are we pretending phoenix has been roasted?

  2. H says:

    Another 2 “mostly peaceful tourists” convicted today of visiting our nations Capital.
    One got an unlucky 7 years partially because he was armed with a 9mm pistol and mags of hollow point and Teflon coated cop killerbullets.
    Judge apparently didn’t accept his ” I was just trying to make sure no body got hurt” defense
    Convictions now over 1100

  3. Dan says:

    More fear porn. Gotta keep the sheeple scared so they can keep pushing their bullshit “solutions”…in order to keep stealing wealth and imposing more and more controls over everyone.

  4. david7134 says:

    I remember in the 50s they would get hysterical and show fry eggs on the sidewalk. Also, when did their predictions match anything.
    As to Phoenix, who cares it is desert.

  5. JimS says:

    Nobody ever got a government grant, sold advertising, or generated “clicks” by saying everything is kunky-dory.

  6. Jl says:

    1.5F we’re fine, but at 1.6 we tip over….Got it

  7. drowningpuppies says:

    The Earth’s Temperature

    Currently: 57.46°F/14.14°C
    Deviation: 0.26°F/0.14°C
    Stations processed last hour: 59871
    Last station processed: Wittmundhafen, Germany
    Update time: 2023-07-21 00:27:21 UTC

    https://temperature.global/

  8. alanstorm says:

    “Might”. “May”. “Could”. “If”. “Maybe”.

    Pure fear porn – and the mental midgets are lapping it up and asking for more.

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