Too late? Scientists warn that the planet is about to exceed irreversible climate limits

Coral reefs are already at their limits and scientists believe the polar ice caps are already beyond repair

Scientists at the University of Frankfurt have issued a drastic warning about the direction of the planet, saying we are already experiencing “the edge” of the beginning of the end.

“The devastating consequences that occur when climate tipping points are exceeded pose an enormous threat to our societies. There is even a risk that the reversal of one climate system could trigger or accelerate the reversal of others. This risk increases significantly when the 1.5°C threshold is exceeded,” said Nico Wunderling, professor of computational earth system science at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University and researcher at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt in the Global Hotspots Report 2025

According to the report, scientists have identified about two dozen parts of the global climate system that could reach tipping points. One of these is coral reefs that are already at their limit, if they have not already gone beyond their limit. Furthermore, Earth’s temperature will rise by 1.5°C over the next few years and mark the point at which several of the planet’s systems will collapse. One of these is the melting of the polar ice caps, resulting in an increase in ocean levels and a complete change in the ecosystem of the poles and their fauna and flora.

Among the other problems that will arise there will perhaps be the transformation of the Amazon forest into a totally different vegetation (a savannah) and the circulation of the ocean…

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