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Sigh I guess I’ll try to find consolation in climate change deniers eating their words in the most grim and dire circumstances
I feel like I’ve been seeing similar headlines for a couple of decades at least, and I think we passed a lot of those points many years back.
Quite possible. It’s hard to know whether a tipping point has been crossed until after the fact when every effort to reverse the changes fails.
Some of the tippings points have been crossed, others are still uncertian, some of them haven’t. Professor Stefan Rahmstorf on Mastodon is worth a follow on this
I’m a bit optimistic that insurance companies raising the alarm might make a difference. Protecting the bottom line is a gross reason to care but caring is good. The natural disasters worsened by climate change are not only costly when they happen, they’re unpredictable. Insurance companies gamble on predictability so uncertainty makes them lose money.
Regardless, the concept is slowly but steadily gaining ground. In July a big conference on tipping points in Exeter attracted actuaries, insurers and pension funds as well as scientists and activists. Emergency services and humanitarian organisations are showing increasing interest, too. And so are the Brazilian organisers of COP30, this year’s United Nations climate summit, who are expected to place particular emphasis on the subject.
