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?

Pack ice on the Greenland Sea, east of Northern Greenland (72°N 18°W). Credit: Rita Wallaert (https://flic.kr/p/7V5GY) [CC BY-NC 2.0]

Shutdown: can climate change make ocean currents collapse?

A recent study renewed worries that the ‘AMOC’ – a key set of ocean currents – could soon pass a … More

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points – paper explainer

A paper presenting an updated assessment of climate tipping points was published yesterday in the journal Science. Here, the paper’s … More