Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%

"As the world heats up, permafrost in the high latitudes is thawing, fiercer wildfires are burning in drying forests and wetlands...All of these changes are themselves causing the release of planet-heating methane and carbon dioxide locked in trees and soils" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New evidence that wildfires are not only a consequence of climate change -- they are also accelerating it.

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "should global heating melt enough of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, thaw enough permafrost, warp crucial ocean currents and turn the Amazon rainforest into a savannah, the world will career past a series of catastrophic tipping points"

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds - Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Remember folks - the only real doubt about climate science is whether events will happen faster and nastier than current predictions www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The faster melting of Arctic sea ice, attributed to global warming, made it more feasible for ships to try it out this summer". This is not a good news story. news.sky.com/story/contai...

"so those models are likely underestimating how much warming is coming – and overestimating how much carbon we can still afford to emit,” said Sam Abernethy, a scientist... who led the research, published in Environmental Research Letters." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.commondreams.org/news/heat-re... “It’s unconscionable that the federal government is putting specific industry interests, including fossil fuel companies’ profits, ahead of people’s health and safety.” The Regime is Accelerating Global Warming!

So uh, you know, this was predictable and was predicted (existence of unaccounted or minimized feedback loops) and here we are. We rapidly decarbonize or billions of people die in the next several to 10 generations & then probably we go extinct. Every day matters.

We warm the planet → nature changes → those changes release more greenhouse gases → the planet warms further. A new study estimates these feedbacks could amplify human-caused warming by 20–30% by 2100, adding roughly 0.2–0.4°C to global temperatures. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

But zoom out and you’ll see human-caused global warming dwarfs the Dust Bowl. Modern climate change is global. Dust Bowl heat was mainly regional. Data: ERA & Berkeley Earth.

This will become so obvious, and increasingly problematic. And. There is no solution other than reducing real emissions at twice the speed we are currently #auspol If you aren’t frightened, you should be www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why "overshoot" is magical thinking: "Rising global temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels are transforming the world’s forests, wetlands and tundra to the point they are releasing emissions that could further worsen global heating by 30%." Because once shit has tipped, it's tipped.

Ways global warming impacted my 2026 (so far)... April/May- House w/out 220v power for 5 wks due to underground cable shift (no furnace, stove, fridge, dryer) was still way below zero. May- Entire road collapse due to unexpected ice wedge melt. 8 homes impacted. Some power issues.

Global warming will soon cross a critical threshold, surpassing a dangerous limit set years ago, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found. But experts say it's still possible to cool things back down, emphasizing that the stakes are too high to stop trying.