Climate Emergency 2025: Year in Review

Описание: This year‑end episode of Climate Emergency Forum brings together host Herb Simmens and climate system scientist Paul Beckwith to look back at the biggest climate stories of 2025 and the highlights from over 250 CEF programs. They discuss five major global themes—from record‑high global temperatures hovering around 1.5 °C, to the “big shrug” from political leaders, the rise of land and ecosystems as net carbon sources, and another year of escalating climate disasters around the world.

This video was recorded on December 17th, 2025, and published on December 30th, 2025, and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.

Paul then turns the spotlight on the people and ideas that shaped the channel this year: popular CEF videos on polar vortex collapses, methane and Arctic risks, and interviews with “Giants of Climate” such as Peter Wadhams, Sir David King, James Hansen, and Jennifer Francis. The episode closes with a rapid news roundup.

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Planetary Boundaries: Navigating Our Limits (CEF Video)
   • Planetary Boundaries: Navigating Our Limits  

Water Restoration - Reduction of Aquatic Methane (RAM) (CEF Video)
   • Water Restoration - Reduction of Aquatic M...  

Microbes - Climate's Tiny Titans (CEF Video)
   • Microbes - Climate's Tiny Titans  

Devastation in Pakistan - Inside the Monsoon Floods (CEF Video)
   • Devastation in Pakistan - Inside the Monso...  

Polar Vortex Collapse (CEF Video)
   • Polar Vortex Collapse  

Red Alert: Planet in Peril (CEF Video)
   • Red Alert: Planet in Peril  

Polar Peril and the Methane Time Bomb (CEF Video)
   • Polar Peril and the Methane Time Bomb  

Dr. James E. Hansen in Conversation with Paul Beckwith (CEF Video)
   • Dr. James E. Hansen in Conversation with P...  

A Polar Ice Scientist: Peter Wadhams' Journey (CEF Video)
   • A Polar Ice Scientist: Peter Wadhams' Journey  

A Climate Advisor: Sir David King’s Journey (CEF Video)
   • A Climate Advisor: Sir David King’s Journey  

Dr. Hansen's Climate Warning: It's Worse Than We Thought (CEF Video)
   • Dr. Hansen's Climate Warning: It's Worse T...  

Weather Whiplashing and Jetstream Waviness (CEF Video)
   • Weather Whiplashing and Jetstream Waviness  

Marine Cloud Brightening - Tribute to Stephen Salter (CEF Video)
   • Marine Cloud Brightening - Tribute to Step...  

Climate Engineering and the Napkin Diagram (CEF Video)
   • Climate Engineering and the Napkin Diagram  

Farming Food for Life (CEF Video)
   • Farming Food for Life  

Katharine Hayhoe in Conversation with Paul Beckwith (CEF Video)
   • Katharine Hayhoe in Conversation with Paul...  

Elizabeth May in Conversation with Paul Beckwith - At COP15 in Montréal (CEF Video)
   • Elizabeth May in Conversation with Paul Be...  

Climate Education - At COP27 (CEF Video)
   • Climate Education - At COP27  

A New Climate Vocabulary (CEF Video)
   • A New Climate Vocabulary  

Vita Sapien - Update 2023 (CEF Video)
   • Vita Sapien - Update 2023  

Climate Restoration Roadmap 2024 (CEF Video)
   • Climate Restoration Roadmap 2024  

COP30: COP30: Climate Hope Through Plankton Power (CEF Video)
   • COP30: Climate Hope Through Plankton Power  

Beyond Carbon: Healthy Oceans and Forests Could Be Key to Climate (CEF Video)
   • Beyond Carbon: Healthy Oceans and Forests ...  

AMOC Amok (CEF Video)
   • AMOC Amok  

Can We Restore the Biosphere? (CEF Video)
   • Can We Restore the Biosphere?  

India's Cooling Challenge (CEF Video)
   • India's Cooling Challenge  

Forest Power: Cooling the Planet Naturally (CEF Video)
   • Forest Power: Cooling the Planet Naturally  

In Defence of the Biotic Pump
https://journals.bilpubgroup.com/inde...

Trump administration moves to break up leading U.S. climate and weather center
https://www.science.org/content/artic...

No water, no life': Iraq's Tigris River in danger of disappearing
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...

Regular Panelists:
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa's Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

Herb Simmens - Author, Co-founder of the Healthy Planet Action Coalition (HPAC), Climate Emergency Board Member and former college instructor.

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Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader

Heidi Brault - Video production and website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP team lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum; BA (Psychology); Climate Reality Leader

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