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"Last week, hundreds of scientists, policymakers and journalists flocked to the University of Exeter to attend an international conference on “tipping points”.

Attendees also explored “positive #TippingPoints” – large-scale, self-propelling social changes that would reduce the impact of humans on the climate."

carbonbrief.org/experts-which-

Carbon Brief · Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? - Carbon BriefCarbon Brief asked a wide range of experts at a University of Exeter which tipping point concerns them the most.

Seen a #TippingPoints story recently about the SMOC (the ocean's overturning circulation around Antarctica, i.e. AMOC's southern sibling) abruptly reversing?

Thankfully, it's not true (seems a press release got overenthusiastic).

Want to know what the paper behind it really said? Read this from the lead author instead: theconversation.com/completely

The Conversation‘Completely unexpected’: Antarctic sea ice may be in terminal decline due to rising Southern Ocean salinity
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Australia’s protester crackdown didn’t start with Hannah Thomas — and it won’t end with her. The injuries sustained by the former Greens candidate are just the latest event in Australia’s crackdown on the right to protest.

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#GreenlandCanadaPipeline

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... years, rather decades to build. So, in my view, now would be a good time to start planning.

As an afterthought:
Shouldn't we try to capture some melt water in yet-to-be-built artificial lakes until then?

Ten years ago, I'd have had to agree with you telling me that I've read to much sci-fi.
In a world of interdependent #TippingPoints with #BoilingOceans and #CoralBleeching, where the...

@Ruth_Mottram @SnowshadowII

citynews.com.au/2025/no-easy-a…

AFAICT this is a very real looming problem, yet our cretinous AusPol lack-of-leadership bullshit shemozzle is either exacerbating this, or at the very least, not helping. Eg... each time i begin again to ponder if i could possibly overcome my personal demons to fully electrify my home [ie, endure all the intensive peopling needed] when our gas prices rise [ie, increasing the economic desire to convert], what happens? Yep, our fucken electricity prices rise as well, thus reducing or eliminating the economic incentive.

Ofc all the climate, & moral, reasons remain to more than justify converting, but so far, w/o also the strong economic reasons, my demons keep winning the day. For normal, non-me, peeps, sans my demons, the confused economic signals alone prolly entirely prevent them converting.

Fuckheads, our govt. 🙄🤦‍♀️

Canberra CityNews · No easy answers to gas network 'death spiral' | Canberra CityNewsLeaving a smaller and smaller customer base to carry the cost of a stranded gas network as households and businesses electrify is not without consequence.

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#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #TippingPoints #FeedbackLoops #Education #Homeschooling #StemEducation @education @stemed @film

Spectacular bit of Elbow gaslighting!

"The environment minister had to deal with the North West Shelf project under the existing EPBC Act, that we did try to change in the last election," he said.

What
A
Dickwad
:blobastonished:

abc.net.au/news/2025-06-10/lab

ABC News · Labor MP Jerome Laxale pushes to force climate considerations into environment lawsBy Tom Lowrey

Climate litigation isn’t ‘activist lawfare’, it’s democracy at work. The oil, coal and gas industries have strategically ducked and weaved litigation for decades, but the law is catching up with them.

Forget climate denial, Labor’s tactical fatalism will burn us all. The climate movement is ill-equipped to deal with a threat that looks like this. Any fantasy we had of a global moral pact of good intentions is dead.

This is a weird headline...

We can stop Labor wrecking Murujuga, climate

...considering that afaict the actual article itself provides no reason for optimism at all. IMO, given we have state & federal Labor governments so completely in thrall to the fossil fools, & who have repeatedly proven they happily ignore science & First Nations, i see no reason to hope here.

greenleft.org.au/content/we-ca

Green Left · We can stop Labor wrecking Murujuga, climateLabor’s decision to extend Woodside’s North West Shelf sends a clear signal to the gas industry that it will not let the concerns of scientists, Traditional Owners and ordinary working people stand in the way of corporate profits, argues Maz Misiewicz.  

social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/11 Bollocks!

hard to believe that this is Australia right now

What genuinely IS hard is the bollocks so many peeps emit in "surprise" when the massive disasters predicted by ignored climate scientists for decades, not only arrive with a thump, but get increasing bigger & more frequent. Humans - stupid as all fuck 🙄🤦‍♀️

Chinwag SocialUnofficial ABC News Bot (@abc_bot@chinwag.org)It's hard to believe that this is Australia right now https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-25/nsw-floods-and-drought-in-australia-south/105308966 #ExtremeWeatherEvents #ClimateChange #Agriculture #Droughts