This episode of Climate Emergency Forum unpacks the new 2025 global climate tipping points report, authored by more than 160 scientists worldwide and described by our guests as one of the strongest climate assessments ever produced. The panel explains what climate tipping points are, why crossing 1.5°C puts billions of people in danger, and how systems like coral reefs, polar ice sheets, the Amazon rainforest, and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) are already destabilizing.
This video was recorded on November 5th, 2025, and published on December 14th, 2025, and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.
Dr. Peter Carter and climate system scientist Paul Beckwith dive into why they believe many key tipping points have effectively already been triggered, from permafrost thaw and Arctic feedbacks to West Antarctic ice sheet collapse and the accelerating loss of coral reefs. They discuss the report’s call for an immediate, comprehensive transition away from fossil fuels, the failure of natural carbon sinks, and how sea level rise, extreme weather, and cascading system interactions could drive a “hyper‑emergency” for human societies.
Host Herb Simmens also explores why such landmark reports get only “one and done” media coverage, what this says about societal tipping points, and why public engagement, political will, and structural change lag so far behind the science. Along the way, the panel highlights emerging climate news—from elections and Amazon deforestation to solar power experiments and climate‑driven health risks—and invites viewers to help keep this critical tipping points report alive by sharing, commenting, and supporting Climate Emergency Forum’s ongoing work.
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Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University
Herb Simmens - Author, Co-founder of the Healthy Planet Action Coalition (HPAC), Climate Emergency Board Member and former college instructor.
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader
Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.
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