The Tipping Point | Climate Change: The Facts | BBC Earth

A tipping point is where even a slight amount of warming can move the climate into an irreversible state.

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Climate Change: The Facts
We're just two degrees away from a climate catastrophe. If the rate of global warming continues, we'll reach the threshold for permanent environmental damage within 40 years. But we have the power to prevent it. Using dramatic user-generated content and emotional first-hand testimony, this film delivers the facts about global warming simply and strikingly. Intimate stories get inside the lives of the people affected by climate change, and those fighting it. And world-leading experts reveal the developments that are redefining our horizons. This is the greatest challenge we've faced. And the human race can rise to it.

Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this.

[LabRat]

The first creature to be fully aware of its own extinction and the first to continue to it with that knowledge.

[marcop]

What I don't like about these videos is that they never tell what is going to happen to us, to people. We had already proved that we are not really sensitive toward the nature issues, so instead of showing the forests, show how hundreds of million will pay, show the huge migration paths, the battle at the borders, the struggle to get some clean water, the starvation, the possible world war involving the countries with a big population and not enough (anymore) land and resources to survive.
This is not just about this beautiful planet, that will survive even without us and even after this climate change, its about us, its about surviving.

[b.e.r.nnetwork]

Anything that exists starts a dying process. You don't have to be a scientist to know that. I'm only 28 and I've noticed a big difference in the winters in the 2000's and the winter from Last year.

[spy]

Sadly, we’ll all watch this, feel disgusted, wish for change, & then 99.9% of us will do nothing about it.

[marcusjackson]

I guarantee people will act surprised when it happens, like they never expected it to do that, in spite of repeatedly being informed it would happen at some point in the not too distant future. The reason why is people are great at conning each other & themselves, but those outcomes are never suffered globally. So like a child that suffers a hard consequence for bad behavior, they will get angry.

[morrisse_]

If the poor suffer today, the rich will suffer tomorrow. Those words are so incredibly true

[jimmy_x]

We're living in a slowly developing nightmare

[butterchuggins]

Stop making new humans for a decade or two.

[nemra]

Personally I am not a tree hugger even thought we did hug a few trees 30 years ago during primary school but, I do understand that all actions have consequences.
We are all temporary guests on this planet, would you trash around in your hosts home or make damages to the surrounding? Probably not.

[vietvohoang]

As a small individual, I'm trying to contribute by reducing petrol consumption, plastic waste, saving electricity & water and watering plants as much as possible.

[krazykaz]

It hurts knowing we are a failed species

[MrIvanovich]

I remember when I used to hear people saying, "I'll be dead by then", when told by the dire future that awaits us. Predictions are improved as knowledge advances and we realize that the impacts we inflict on Earth systems are underestimated.

[fluxfaze]

No species on the planet is more deserving of a cosmos-delivered extinction event than the human race. Looks like we’ll beat the cosmos to the punch, though.

[LrCloud]

Most people cannot grasp what a 1-2 deg difference means because it’s rarely adequately communicated. They’re thinking that 1-2 deg isn’t that much and it would be easy to go back 1-2 deg. But that’s not the case. It would be better to describe it as pushing a heavy truck towards a hill. It’s relatively easy to push a 1 ton truck to the edge as most of it’s weight is supported by the ground and all you’re really doing is overcoming friction…but once it’s in the hill there is NO way you are going to be able to push a 1 ton truck back up a hill.

[blondie]

My heart aches for our planet and all the life that calls Earth Home

[Hawaiian_Brian]

I'll lower my carbon footprint by flying private jets to meet 100s of others that flew private jets and discuss climate change.

Then I'll throw a self congratulatory party on my yacht because I'm such a good person.

[matjb]

We all leave a carbon footprint, no matter how environmentally conscientious you are. But, you can either choose to tip toe or stomp with your carbon footprint. We need to hold large corporations accountable, first.

[buryitdeep]

Good luck handing this over to the future in 30 years time.

[bbert]

after i watch "Dont Look Up" i rush to this topic, climate change, and omg this is the real consequences, and i cant even make a difference by just not using plastic and or using public transport, i mean the biggest climate change contributors are not even doing something, i live in the Philippines its like more or less in the center of the equator, if the worst day comes we cant save ourselves cause were poor, and its just that? everuthing ive work for everything ive dream of is gone, life should not end like this humankind should not end like this, , , now i promise myself that to every people i know and i will know/meet i will tell them abouut the climate change, maybe it would make a difference if evryone just take it seriously, i love this planet even though i havent even travel to best places seeing it in pictures is enough to feel its natural beauty, may we all fix this, i hope we can fix this

[KonaFocus]

Interviewed people in multimillion dollar homes with a/c full blast, sitting comfortably in clothing made from fossil fuels (polyester) with all these electronics using up electricity thats 90% made with fossil fuels, produced by people making millions of dollars on these “documentaries” that travel the world in private jets. Good stuff.