The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 3: Positive Tipping Points and Industrial Policy Engineering

Charles Rotter This is Part III of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Part I examined the catastrophe framing and the tension between rhetorical certainty and acknowledged scientific uncertainty . Part II analyzed the governance architecture built atop that framing: financial steering, expanded disclosure regimes, legal embedding, and coordinated technocratic oversight This installment turns to the economic heart of the report’s t...

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Scissor
February 19, 2026 6:11 am

It’ll be super serious when Guam capsizes – ManBearPig.

strativarius
February 19, 2026 7:24 am

Tipping points? On our radar they are all socio-political and none of them are even remotely anything to do with weather or climate. This allows mad Ed to beaver away unnoticed while everybody else attempts to defend the amateur hour government and its countless u-turns.

You can bookmark this and read the rest of my comment in 30 days….

atticman
Reply to  strativarius
February 19, 2026 10:07 am

Let’s sing along with The Rolling Stones:-

“Here comes your 19th policy U-turn…”

John Hultquist
February 19, 2026 9:03 am

 Thanks CR.

Take a look at this list.
Batteries, light bulb, telephone, airplane, personal computer, automobile, camera, internet, refrigerator, microwave oven
Two things stand out. None required government “triggering” to rapid adoption, and none reduced emissions. Just the opposite.
The odd goal of zero emissions bucks the trend. Of course, zero emission of Carbon Dioxide is unnecessary and likely harmful.  

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  John Hultquist
February 20, 2026 9:40 am

When one thinks for pitchforks and torches, one can see some real pollution (smoke).