Antarctica's message to the world: scientists sound alarm on extreme events and tipping points

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https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/antarcticas-message-to-the-world-scientists-sound-alarm-on-extreme-events-and-tipping-points/

Antarctica’s message to the world: scientists sound alarm on extreme events and tipping points
29 September, 2025 Press releases

London, 29-30 September 2025 – Scientists meeting at The Royal Society in London this week are issuing a stark warning: dramatic and extreme changes in Antarctica are happening faster than expected, with consequences that will affect everyone on the planet.

From collapsing ice shelves and record-low sea ice to powerful storms and threats to fragile ecosystems, researchers will describe how Antarctica, often seen as remote and untouched, is reaching dangerous tipping points that could accelerate global heating, raise sea levels, and disrupt weather patterns worldwide.

Opening the two-day meeting, Professor Dame Jane Francis, Director of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will remind the audience that: “What happens in Antarctica affects us all.”

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“Antarctica is changing faster than we ever imagined. These changes are already affecting communities and ecosystems worldwide. Urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience is essential if we are to avoid crossing dangerous thresholds.”

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[Hey Joe]

1. Meanwhile, Trump is bringing back beautiful coal

And drill baby, drill.
Coal and oil is making a comeback just in time to seal our doom.

[NNadir]

2. Well, we should look pn the bright side. Once all the ice is gone...

...from Greenland and Antarctica, it will open opportunities for all the copper and lanthanide mines for wind turbines and wires to connect them that were supposed to prevent this happenstance but, um, didn't.

Of course preventing this outcome was never the goal of the afficionadoes of wind turbines. The real goal was to assure that it would be too late for nuclear energy to do what it might have done to prevent the outcome. In this it was a success. Some gloating would be in order, I guess.