A new analysis of the climate crisis suggests that the Earth is approaching ‘dangerous’ climate change even earlier than expected. A team of scientists have analysed 16 potential climate tipping points and conclude that the Earth may have left a ‘safe’ climate state beyond 1°C global warming.

Tipping points are not a new idea, but they have great potential in understanding the climate crisis and how we can work together positively to avert the coming environmental crisis.

We face dark times. Very dark times. All of us. They will be darker times than almost all of us can visualise or have ever experienced. But few seem to realise the true enormity of what we all confront, let alone how to come to terms with this. For the vast majority of us it is unthinkable.

The highest ever recorded temperatures across much of Europe in July confirm that the scientific warnings were right and worse looms.

Bob Ward is Deputy Chair of the London Climate Change Partnership. In this interview with BBC London News on 19 July he urged everyone who lives and work in Greater London to understand why they must adapt quickly their lives. Or else…

Record, sizzling temperatures in Europe and North America have confirmed the existential threat to the way of life we take for granted.

John Kerry is President Biden’s Special Climate Envoy. He detailed the ominous realities and failings to James Naughtie on the BBC’s World This Weekend on 24 July 2022.