Charles Rotter This is Part VII 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 scientific uncertainty . Part II analyzed the governance architecture and technocratic expansion . Part III evaluated the industrial policy blueprint behind “positive tipping points” . Part IV assessed narrative management and the treatment of dissent . Part V examined the pr...
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This is a very significant issue.
Once the climate alarmists have legal obligations written into law, not simply local law but internationalised law agreement via treaty, then no further industrial advance will happen.
The process of trial and error ,testing development will become illegal. Why? Because each iteration would have to conform to the obligations to reduce risk to the planet’s environmental balance. There is no way of assessing that, thus every improvement every test would be blocked on the premise the outcome is unknown so no progress would be allowed.
The ongoing push for the legal departments of democratic governance to be given superior authority over the government decision making can be seen in bizarre policy decisions already, the Chagos Islands lunacy being just one current example here in the UK.
This push towards judicial veto over national decisions/needs has to stop.
Tipping Point is another of the multitude of words and expressions hijacked by the Trans-Reality Alarmists to brainwash the population. Use of common language and contest derived definitions does real harm in scientific discourse.
A tipping point is the threshold that once crossed causes a system in a stable state to rapidly transition to a different stable state. There are no reversal tipping points although the original state can, with help, be regained.
Take a 1 inch diameter dowl with a flat end. Stand it up on a flat surface. The center of mass of the dowl is in the center of the dowl and midpoint of its length, assuming the dowl is relatively uniform in this example. Push the top of the dowl. The the gravity vector of the center of mass falls outside the base, the dowl falls.
There are no tipping points in the earth’s energy systems. If there once were, they have been crossed creating the system we experience today.
One can argue with credibility that the sun variations and orbital variations can cause a change in energy input to the earth energy system leading to ice ages or whatever. Unlike the mechanical tipping point, the sun returning to its prior output ends the ice age. Not this simple, but it does give some clarity on the true use of tipping points.