Screenshot of a social media link to a Youtube discussion between Roger Hallam and Bill McGuire titled " The Insurance Industry Predicts Mass Death: How Do We Live A Good Life?"

Fact-Check: have actuaries predicted that billions will die beyond 2 degrees?

Some campaigners are claiming that UK actuaries (who measure risk for insurers) have predicted billions of deaths due to climate change beyond 2C of warming, partly due to tipping points & feedbacks. However, this is based of misreading a key table from a report, with the numbers actually being only hypothetical.

News Explainer: Is the AMOC closer to collapse than thought?

The first of a new occassional ‘News Explainer’ series, briefly summarising recent news on climate tipping points (and checking how well the media reported it). First up, a paper by Portmann et al. constraining future AMOC decline, but does it show that collapse is more likely than thought?