Johan (Johann) Rockström
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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90% of the heat caused by our fossil fuel burning is not in the atmosphere causing the temperature rise which has led us to the climate crisis we see today.
It's in the ocean.
50% of the carbon dioxide from the greenhouse gases we add is not in the atmosphere trapping heat.
It's actually stored, half of it in the ocean and half of it on land.
So a healthy planet...
has this extraordinary biophysical capacity to buffer and dampen, basically cool the planet.
We're seeing, unfortunately, increasing indicators of our planet losing this capacity.
Not that we've crossed the tipping point, but forest systems are getting weaker and no longer able to take up as much carbon.
The ocean is warming faster than we had expected.
Ice is melting faster than we had expected.
This is a stress response of a planet
that is trying to do everything it can to buffer and dampen change.
And when we come closer to the end of this capacity, then of course the risk is very high that the impacts hit back even harder on our societies.
To begin with, what it looks like is that we will have more shocks of what we're experiencing right now in Europe.
Remember that we are experiencing, in places that have never recorded it before, life-threatening temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius.
So that's the first thing.
The second is droughts, floods, fires that risk food security and even social stability.
We are at risk of triggering more disease outbreaks, even pandemics, which then spills over into less and less stable economies and therefore also less and less stable societies, moving into situations of displacement, migration, potentially even armed conflicts.
And we see these first indications of this in countries like Germany,
like Sudan, Syria, Chad, where you cannot separate anymore the social conflicts and displacements and people suffering from these environmental changes.
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