95 - Climate End-Game

The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been “dangerously underexplored”, climate scientists have warned in an analysis. They call such a catastrophe the

“Climate Endgame”

What is a carbon sink?A carbon sink is anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases – for example, plants, the ocean and soil.

Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe

Global Warming of 1.5 ºC — - IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Understanding the impacts of 1.5°C global warming above pre-industrial levels and related global emission pathways in the context of strengthening the response ...

Climate tipping points could topple like dominoes, warn scientistsAnalysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects

Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – studyClimate crisis and logging is leading to shift from canopy rainforest to open grassland

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios - PubMedPrudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understood. Could anthropogenic climate change result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction? At present, this is a dangerously underexp …

The need for studying the Climate EndgameCatastrophic climate change outcomes - the Climate Endgame - haven’t been properly explored, a new study says.

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios | Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPrudent risk management requires consideration of bad-to-worst-case scenarios. Yet, for climate change, such potential futures are poorly understoo...

Climate change: potential to end humanity ‘dangerously underexplored’ say expertsExperts call for a new ‘Climate Endgame’ research agenda, and say far too little work has gone into understanding the mechanisms by which rising temperatures might pose a catastrophic risk to society and humanity.

Climate emergency: world 'may have crossed tipping points’Warning of ‘existential threat to civilisation’ as impacts lead to cascade of unstoppable events

Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium, say scientistsDecline in system underpinning Gulf Stream could lead to more extreme weather in Europe and higher sea levels on US east coast

Climate Endgame - Part 12#shortsThis is an excerpt from our full video 'Climate Endgame' found here: https://youtu.be/1x6Xx4zZJyE featuring Paul Beckwith of the Climate Emergency For...

The Five Historic Mass Extinction

There have been five mass extinctions in Earth's historyWhen did the "Big Five" mass extinctions happen, and what were their causes?

Mass extinction facts and information from National GeographicIn the last 500 million years, life has had to recover from five catastrophic blows. Are humans dealing the planet a sixth?

The 5 mass extinction events that shaped the history of Earth — and the 6th that's happening nowThe death of the dinosaurs was just one of five global events that saw millions of species wiped out. How do these events happen? And how can we stop it happening again?

Outside/Inbox: Could humans survive a 'worst-case' climate change scenario? Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. This week, a listener wants to know whether humans survive a “worst-case” climate change scenario.

Visualizing the worst-case climate change scenario

The World Economic Forum

The Forum created a visualization of global temperature change and impacts resulting from the worst-case scenario, depicting extreme heat, ...

5 Worst Case Scenario Consequences of Climate ChangeStill don't think you need to be environmentally responsible? Take a look at these climate change consequences and think again.

the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The Other Way We Could Annihilate Ourselves: Thermonuclear Weapons

Climate Action Tracker

Countries

No change to warming as fossil fuel endgame brings focus ...

Climate Action Tracker

Despite government promises, warming projections have not improved since Glasgow two years ago, amid worsening climate impacts.

The Worse-Case Senario for Civilization, for Human Extinction, for All Life on Earth

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