How does the pending climate catastrophe play out with a sudden ...

If there were a 90% reduction rather than a society collapse there would be a collapse of the central authority and current powers. The ...

Our Fragile Earth: How Close Are We to Climate Catastrophe?

Lessons from past eras when Earth was a hothouse or a snowball tell us whether we are doomed by climate change or still have time to prevent ...

First stage of abrupt climate catastrophe has begun by crossing ...

The climate shifts entailed by the Arctic tipping point breach are already in themselves extremely dangerous, and will create a much higher risk ...

Gulf Stream could collapse as early as 2025, study suggests

A collapse would bring catastrophic climate impacts but scientists disagree over the new analysis.

Climate Trauma, or the Affects of the Catastrophe to Come

Ann Kaplan (2016), Timothy Morton (2013), and others, this article argues that these affects of climate catastrophe are traumatically affecting ...

Climate Action Fast Facts - the United Nations

Climate change can be a natural process where temperature, rainfall, wind and other elements vary over decades or more. In millions of years, our world has been ...

5 natural disasters that beg for climate action | Oxfam International

Climate hazards are natural events in weather cycles. We've always had hurricanes, droughts and wildfires, flooding and high winds.

Climate change will be sudden and cataclysmic. We need to act fast

This would release a powerful greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, 30-times more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warming agent. This would ...

World on brink of five 'disastrous' climate tipping points, study finds

A further seven tipping points would have severe regional effects, including the die-off of tropical coral reefs and changes to the west African ...

The 2030 Spike : Countdown to Global Catastrophe - CIA

More likely in the short term are climate 'blips' within the larger ... that there are faceless management hierarchies out there that are interested ...

When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans?

In other words, we have, trapped in Arctic permafrost, twice as much carbon as is currently wrecking the atmosphere of the planet, all of it ...

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate ...

Recent work has suggested that up to 15 tipping elements are now active (Lenton et al., 2019). Hence it is timely to synthesize this new ...

Earth to Hit Critical Global Warming Threshold by Early 2030s

Beyond that point, scientists say, the impacts of catastrophic heat waves, flooding, drought, crop failures and species extinction become ...

Climate Collapse Could Happen Fast - The Atlantic

In fact, a growing number of climate scientists now believe we may be careening toward so-called tipping points, where incremental steps along ...

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance ...

Extreme weather and climate events have figured prominently in past IPCC assessments. Extremes can contribute to disasters, but disaster risk is influenced ...

Climate Change | United Nations For Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous peoples and the role they may play in combating climate change are rarely considered in public discourses on climate change. The United Nations ...

What If We Stopped Pretending? - The New Yorker

Climate apocalypse, by contrast, is messy. It will take the form of increasingly severe crises compounding chaotically until civilization begins ...

Courting Disaster: Climate Change and the Adjudication of ...

in SUDDEN AND DISRUPTIVE CLIMATE CHANGE: EXPLORING THE REAL RISKS AND HOW WE CAN ... federal court and the plaintiffs' motions to remand are now pending in the ...

Climate catastrophe has happened before - and it's teaching us ...

The warming event was caused by volcanoes that released huge amounts of the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The volcanoes were in what are ...

Consequences of climate change - European Commission

Climate change affects all regions around the world. Polar ice shields are melting and the sea is rising. In some regions, extreme weather events and rainfall ...