I’m surprised they didn’t mention a key tipping point I’ve been following: melting permafrost.

It’s dangerous because once all the permafrost in Alaska, Canada, and Russia starts melting, the gasses it releases are a self fulfilling prophecy. The warming caused by permafrost melt is enough to keep melting permafrost.

Good report on the dangers here:

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/01/1110722

Current estimates are that an increase of just 1.5°C in global temperatures over average would be enough to hit this tipping point and we’re already at +0.8.

https://worldbusiness.org/permafrost-the-climates-tipping-time-bomb/

Continuing to increase at a rate of 0.08°C per decade means we’ll hit this in approximately 80 or 90 years? Except that, since 1980, we’ve been warming at a rate of +0.18°C per decade, so we should hit the tipping point by 2062, tops.

Eh, what do I care, I’ll be 93 years old, assuming I’m not already dead by then. :)

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature

People can’t keep blaming every case of wildfires on “arsonists” forever

is it possible to somehow summon the tldr bot here? anyone know?