Last Updated 12.31.24.

Prologue 

The uncensored climate change forecast below was done by a 100% publicly funded climate change think tank. It is the most comprehensive list of climate change-related consequences for 2025 currently found anywhere on the Internet.

As you review this 2025 climate change forecast, we believe you, too, will discover:

1. How 70+ climate change consequences will capture more of your time, money, and more of the quality of your life in 2025.

2. That climate change is not only getting worse, but it is also not doing it at an even faster pace. 

3. Many of the 70+ climate change consequences below are already aggressively being used by national and global insurance and reinsurance companies to re-evaluate home and business property insurance policies, raise their rates in medium to high-risk climate change areas, or cancel risky home and business climate-related property insurance policies altogether. 

 

 

 

When viewing the 2025 climate change consequence lists below, remember that science can now attribute a reliable percentage of climate change-related factors as the direct or contributing cause of extreme weather events or climate disasters. (Please note that all of our recent significant climate disasters have been climate change-driven, and you can learn more about these climate change attribution studies by clicking here.)

The most crucial climate change patterns to be aware of in 2025 are:

1. Most climate change consequences will become more frequent and severe, and they will cover larger and larger areas. 

2. More weather records will be broken, and more weather records will be broken by larger and larger amounts at even faster rates than they are being broken now!

 

 

The climate change consequence types and sections found on this page

The 2025 climate change forecast sections on this page are broken into four parts for easy reading.

Part 1:

1. The climate change consequences for 2025 are listed in the following categories: heat, humidity, wind, rain, drought, cold, wildfires, food, health, costs, infrastructure, business-related, environment, insurance-related, politics, and miscellaneous.

2. The four biggest climate change tipping points and warning signs for 2025.

3. How intensifying climate change consequences in 2005 will affect your life, but will not occur anything like you think it will happen.

4. How the change in the US Government administration with the new 47th US president radically worsens climate change consequences.

Part 2: 

5. A predicted surge in climate change consequences and global heating from 2026-2031

Part 3: 

6. The predicted consequences of climate change and global heating for the next 2-5 decades, 2032 to 2050. 

7. Conclusions.

Part 4:

8. What you must do to protect yourself, your family, and your business. (Here, you will learn how to prepare, adapt, survive, and help reduce the adverse consequences of climate change. You will also learn the many benefits humanity will reap if we fix the climate heating emergency.)

9. Documentation links for these consequence lists and forecasts.

 

The materials on this page are definitely not for individuals under 16 years old. They are far too complex and disturbing for children under 16 to understand or manage in healthy and rational ways. Finally, if you find this 2025 climate change forecast helpful, please email it directly to your friends because it is highly unlikely they will get it elsewhere. Here's why? Your government and your media outlets will not cover or will water down these 2025 climate change consequences in the service of mostly hidden vested financial interests that are determined to maintain their obscene fossil fuel-related profits. (If you do not believe the world's most profitable cartel would create billions of dollars in worldwide disinformation and misinformation or actively suppress accurate climate change information to maintain its profits, then click here to see the mountain of research on why this is true.)

 

The Climate Change Forecast Part 1, 2025

 

Section 1: The Direct and Indirect Climate Change Consequences that Will Most Affect You, Your Family, Your Business, and Your Nation in 2025.

For easier reading in 2025, the climate consequences below were placed in the following subject-related blocks (heat, humidity, wind, rain, drought, cold, wildfires, food, health, costs, infrastructure, business-related, environment, insurance-related, politics, and miscellaneous). 

In general, people ignore one or two climate consequences they may experience or see in the news. When they finally see or experience many of the climate change consequences listed below, they begin to understand how bad things are, but they generally do not yet grasp how much worse they're going to get.

Only after experiencing numerous intense or worsening climate change consequences do most people get serious about recognizing we are facing a climate change emergency. The saddest thing about the list of climate consequences you're about to read is that they are getting worse mainly because our political leaders have not yet made the honest and required 2025 global fossil fuel reductions needed to prevent climate change consequences from getting worse and threatening the survival of humanity. 

We recommend printing this 2025 climate change consequence forecast and then watching your region's news and weather. Check off each consequence you witness to verify the accuracy as you experience the accuracy of our 2025 climate change forecast. 

 

 

It is also important to remember that because no government has effectively controlled or reduced climate change, no government can legitimately claim they are adequately controlling or reducing the consequences listed below. These consequences are already baked-in and unavoidable because of your government's 60+ years of climate change denial, ineffective action, or no action. As long as humanity keeps putting more carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide (the three leading greenhouse gases) into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels, the consequences of climate change below will continue to increase. (The graphs further below track increasing greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. They prove why the 2025 climate change consequences below will continue to worsen despite what you hear from your government, the media, or well-intentioned environmental groups selling fundraising optimism instead of climate change science.)

 

Heat-Related

Increasing heat and longer heatwaves, heat domes, and considerably more 100 degrees + days annually. (More 100 degrees + days during the growing season means more crop failures and lower yields.)

In the US alone, we predict between 2,000 to 3,000 people will die directly because of extreme heat-related causes. Worldwide, we predict several hundred thousand people will die from extreme heat-related causes. Expect these death totals to rise dramatically each year in perfect lockstep with increasing global temperatures.

The intervals between changing weather patterns will grow shorter, with differences in the types of weather changes becoming more extreme. For example, droughts will take less time to turn into rain bombs, and winter snow will turn into rain and ice. Calm days will go to intense wind gusts more quickly. Much of this will be because the atmosphere is heating up like a pressure cooker. The contents inside that pressure cooker (our atmosphere) are churning and moving faster and faster as the global temperature rises.

Despite normal El Niño and La Niña temperature variations, we forecast that, like 2024, 2025 will become the warmest year on record. It will break the temperature record once again (despite the change from La Niña to El Nino) because we continue to put ever more carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from our ever-increasing fossil fuel use. Not only are we putting ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but we are also doing it at faster and faster rates. Add to that nightmare the additional triggering of climate change feedbacks and crossing more climate tipping points, and you have the perfect recipe for endless global heating increases.

Globally, climate change added, on average, 41 additional days of dangerous heat in 2024 that also threatened people’s health. Back that number to rise significantly in 2025. 

 

Humidity-Related 

Due to heat-related evaporation worldwide, there will be a significant increase in water vapor in the atmosphere. With every one-degree Celsius increase in temperature, there is a 7% increase in atmospheric water vapor. This increase in water vapor means a substantial increase in global humidity.

More humanity with high temperatures means more heat-related deaths. High humidity is particularly deadly for the very old and young when high temperatures accompany it.

High humidity and high temperatures together will have a significant depressive effect on all openly outdoor labor productivity and safety.

When heat temperature and humidity factors are combined into a measurement, it is called a wet bulb temperature. Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (131 °F). A reading of 35 °C (95 °F) – equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) – is considered the theoretical human survivability limit for up to six hours of exposure. In 2024, areas of the Iranian desert reached a temperature of 163°. 

Eventually, rising humidity and temperature will cause millions of people in the tropics to migrate because living and working will become unbearable and unsustainable. Rising climate change-driven global humidity will become one of humanity's biggest productivity and survival problems.

 

Wind-Related

Increasing heat will mean increasing wind and wind speeds almost everywhere. Our atmosphere will increasingly "boil and churn" as it continues to warm each year, much like you would see an increase in water boiling and churning as the heat is increased under a pressure cooker. This "pressure cooker" wind-increasing effect is because the top layer of our atmosphere acts like a pressure cooker lid, keeping most of our climate change warming heat inside our lower atmosphere. 

Increasing winds worldwide will eventually become one of climate change's most damaging and consistent consequences. (For example, the western coast of the United States will significantly increase 70-100 mile per hour wind events. Worldwide, tornadoes and Derechos will occur in places they have not previously occurred, and they will become more frequent in areas where they have occurred previously.) Increased winds will create downed trees and power lines, block roads, and destroy crops.

Flyers will experience greatly increased air turbulence and extreme air turbulence, as reported by airlines and airline passengers. More flights will be canceled because of high wind and extreme weather conditions. More airplanes will have emergency landings or crash because of climate-related extreme weather. 

There will be more intense or frequent hurricanes, Derechos, cyclones, tornadoes, and extreme wind events (We will see more Category 6 hurricanes and cyclones. These new category six hurricanes and typhoons will occur due to the extra global warming-caused heat in our atmosphere and oceans. The category six hurricane level begins with maximum sustained winds of 182 MPH. (Just two category six hurricanes have been recorded so far: Patricia and Wilma.)

 

Rain-Related

Due to heat-related evaporation worldwide, there will be a significant increase in water vapor in the atmosphere. With every one-degree Celsius increase in temperature, there is a 7% increase in atmospheric water vapor.

There will be a lot more rain bombs. (Rain bombs are where a week, month, or season's worth of rain falls in a few hours or days.)

You will begin to see rain bombs approaching 30 inches of rain in one or two days becoming more common. You will also see rain bombs occur in locations where they have never occurred before because of changes in the jetstream and in the atmosphere.

Rain bombs and other climate-related flooding will cause city and home sewers to back up. Raw human and industrial sewage will be more frequently dumped into homes, streets, businesses, rivers, lakes, bays, and coastal waters.

Because of rain bombs and flooding, there will be far more water treatment plant purification problems and disruptions.

Increased water vapor also means even more snow bombs.

There will be more atmospheric rivers in existing and new locations where rain storm after rain storm pummels an area with little time between each new rain storm.

Because of warmer temperatures and these warmer temperatures causing earlier spring rains, there will be smaller mountain snowpacks and far faster spring snowpack melting in the spring. This faster runoff will cause more record-breaking flash flooding downstream and less water available from the annual snowpack to be saved for crops and other uses.

 

Drought-Related

There will be more droughts. (We are currently experiencing global warming-aggravated mega-droughts that have lasted one or more decades in the US Southwest and West, Africa, and Australia.)

There will be more desertification: more land will be drought-out and unusable.

Droughts will wreck coastal fisheries, especially salmon (which spawn in drought-ravaged rivers). The government departments managing the fisheries will issue shorter fishing seasons more frequently, delay fishing seasons, or even cancel specific fishing seasons for a year or more.

As climate change increases heat and produces longer droughts covering larger areas, traditional legal water rights for nations, states, regions, and individuals will increasingly be challenged in the courts, renegotiated, and changed. This global water rights reallocation process and changes to pre-existing legal water rights will be required and government-enforced to deal with today's harsh climate change realities and our better understanding of climate change and hydrology (the study of water, water conservation, etc.

 

 

(Please note: When you look at the steeply rising carbon (CO2) graph (above) and the carbon, methane. and nitrous oxide greenhouse graphs (further down the page), which are also rising steeply, two truths scream out:

1. Climate change will continue to worsen even faster because of ever more greenhouse gases are going into the atmosphere each year, and

2. Nothing the world's governments (or environmental groups) have done since they were informed about the growing climate catastrophe over 60 years ago has been effective in any meaningful way for reducing the rising greenhouse gases that cause climate change.

The decades of rising carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide numbers do not lie. Our global efforts to reduce climate change by reducing the cause of climate change (fossil fuel emissions and greenhouse gases) have been a total, complete, and utter failure! Until we come out of this climate change denial and face these painful facts, we will never be able to reduce or avoid the escalating the climate change consequences described on this page.)

 

Cold-Related

There will be more sudden cold or freezing spells at times, and in places, this should not occur! Because more of these cold and freezing spells will appear in locations where it usually does not happen, there will be many frozen and busted pipes and water systems because the water froze inside of them. Because of jet stream and other atmospheric disturbances caused by climate change you will also see cold or freezing spells in places where they have never experienced such weather phenomena.

There will be many more damaging and dangerous ice storms as winter weather rapidly changes from warm and rainy to freezing cold. These ice storms will disrupt personal and business transportation. This increase in ice storms will be harsh on the airline industry, which will have to cancel many more flights because of heavily iced runways and airplane deicing issues.

There will be more frequent hail storms with larger hail stones. Increased heat and warm weather during winter will also cause more rain in winter, freezing rain, and ice storms. These winter ice and freezing rain storms will take down power lines and the increasing number of downed power lines will further disrupt transportation, manufacturing, and life.

Just as we are already experiencing rain bombs where weeks or month's worth of rain falls in a day or two, in 2025, the world will recognize that we are also now experiencing snow bombs. Highly disruptive snow bombs occur when about 4 to 8 feet of snow falls in an area over several days. Just as rain bombs are increasing in severity, frequency, and scale of areas covered, snow bombs will do the same thing. This rain-to-snow bomb parallel is because snow bombs are just frozen water particles.  As global heating increases, more and more water vapor will be in the air to, in some places, make frozen water particles called snow.

Despite it often being called global warming, climate change computer modeling predicts many unseasonable and intense cold spells because the jet stream has started to wobble and become more unstable. This extreme instability brings much colder air from the far north down into areas, and at times where it would not usually occur.

 

Wildfires and Wildfire Smoke-Related

Larger fires will spread faster because of predicted higher velocity winds, heat, and droughts. As the temperature rises, there will be many more wildfires worldwide, with increasing severity, frequency, and size of the area covered. These wildfires will also cause larger and larger temporary and permanent evacuations and relocations.

Because of increased droughts, heat, and wind, more wildfires will occur in forests worldwide, particularly in the northern United States, Canada, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia. Wildfires will also increase in the Amazon tropical forest area due to reoccurring and extended droughts.

With wildfires comes wildfire smoke. Wildfire smoke contains dangerous PM 2.5 particles and other highly toxic materials from the homes and other buildings being burned. PM 2.5 and other poisonous particles released during wildfires have a major health effect on affected populations. It is estimated that in California alone, from 2018 to 2022, approximately 50,000 people died from the PM 2.5 and other toxic effects of wildfire smoke. 

Southern California is a good example of what will be happening in many areas of the world regarding wildfires and wildfire smoke. Southern California will experience alternating periods of climate change-driven higher annual rainfall one year or one season, followed by periods of extended and increasing drought the next year or season. When too much annual or seasonal rain and the following drought phenomena are combined with increased global heating, it will also increase the local area winds. In the southern California case, these intensifying winds are called the periodic Santa Anna winds.

Because of accelerating climate change, Southern California will continue to experience too much rain one year or season, followed by severe droughts the next year or season. More specifically, this is dangerous because additional plant growth will occur during the increased rainfall period, and then the increased plant growth will dry out during the extended drought periods. This will provide ever-increasing dry wildfire fuel, which will result in ever larger, more intense, and more frequent wildfires and emergency wildfire evacuations in Southern California (especially during periods of the Santa Anna winds.) Accelerating climate change will make rebuilding in medium to high-risk wildfire areas of southern California (or anywhere in the world) increasingly unwise and all but impossible to ensure at anything looking like a reasonable cost.

Increasing wildfires worldwide also release massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, becoming a double disaster because increased atmospheric carbon equals rising average global temperatures.

 

Season-Related

Significant unseasonable changes like rain and warm weather during winter followed quickly severe cold spells, then back to warm or rain, then cold again in both winter and summer. These rapid changes in warm-to-cold and wet-to-dry weather are because the jet stream has started to wobble and become more unstable. There will be significantly more crop loss due to climate change-driven abnormal seasonal variation, such as essential weather conditions appearing at the wrong time of the season for crop survival, i.e., rain bombs in the sprint planting time, high wind Derechos at harvest time, etc. Seasons that do not begin or end when they usually do will be especially dangerous for crops and gardens.

We will also experience freezing rain, ice storms, and damaging large hail in non-winter seasons, lowering food production or destroying complete crops.

 

Food-Related

Food prices will rise year after year to compensate for climate change-related:

a. farmer food crop losses (low crop yields and crop failures.)

b. increased plant feed costs to food animal producers.

c. warming waters causing increasing dwindling fish stocks.

These increases will be considerably more than the typical cost of living increases. We estimate that because of the accelerating consequences of climate change, food prices rise at least 2 to 5% or even more annually for many food items. This 2-5% is in addition to whatever the annual national inflation rate is for your nation.

Animal food prices (cattle, pigs, sheep, and chickens and products from these animals) will also be subject to steadily higher price rises because most animal feed is grown as a crop, and climate change destroys crop and crop yields. Additionally, animal herds will starve more, die, and suffer other disease problems worldwide as more intense climate change consequences occur.

You will begin to see more dynamic electronic pricing in grocery stores. This dynamic pricing will allow grocery stores to change any price on any shelf item with a few computer keystrokes. Dynamic pricing will be critical for food stores to survive in the new reality of rapidly evolving food prices due to low crop and animal yields, failed crops and animal production, and stalled or lost food distribution due to climate change, extreme weather, or disasters.

Due to climate-related consequences, there will be more food shortages. Food shortages of themselves will also cause rapidly rising food prices.

Climate change will cause Increased worldwide starvation. 

No matter what worldwide governments do, say, or promise, they will not be able to lower their nations rising food costs because of worldwide escalating crop failures and low crop yields directly due to the consequences of climate change. Until your government reverses climate change food prices will continue to rise.

Health-Related

Directly or indirectly, air pollution causes approximately 11 to 13% of ALL global deaths each year. That is about one out of every eight global deaths, roughly 10 million people a year!

Increased toxic fossil fuel burning-related air pollution will cause millions of additional global cases of childhood asthma and other respiratory ailments. 

Wildfire smoke will increase, and it will be full of dangerous PM 2.5 particles and other highly toxic materials from the homes and buildings being burned. PM 2.5 and other poisonous particles released during wildfires have a major health effect on affected populations. It is estimated that in California alone, from 2018 to 2022, approximately 50,000 people died from the PM 2.5 and other toxic effects of wildfire smoke. 

More people will have serious health problems after climate change catastrophes (such as breathing and respiratory problems after breathing in wildfire smoke and other health problems after climate change-driven flooding due to chemicals, sewage, and molds in the flood waters.

Far more people will suffer and die in 2025 because of direct and indirect climate change-related consequences than in any previous year. The number of people worldwide who will die from the direct and indirect effects of the primary and secondary climate change consequences will increase to around 120-160 million. 

Allergies will significantly worsen in many areas, and allergies will spread to places where they have not existed. This rising allergy problem will be caused by climate change-driven increasing temperatures, more carbon in the atmosphere, and other changing conditions that will cause plant migrations and some plants to multiply dramatically. Many individuals will experience allergies for the first time or more intensely as weather and growing patterns change worldwide and more carbon dioxide, which is good for plants, enters the atmosphere.

There will be increased animal and insect migrations trying to adapt to climate consequences. These migrations will bring more insect and animal diseases to new and completely unprepared areas.

In areas of melting permafrost, long-dormant viruses and bacteria that humanity hasn't seen in almost 1 million years will circulate again.

There will be more COVID-19-like variant outbreaks, other epidemics, and more Covid-like new pandemics. (Aids, Mers, Sars, Swine flu, Avian bird flu, and most likely COVID-19 are zoological viral diseases that have come to humans from animals. This zoological disease cross-over effect is fueled by the loss of natural animal habitat, eating more wild animals, overcrowding causing more human-to-animal interactions, less resilient health systems, mass animal and human migrations, and the melting of the permafrost and its ancient viral and bacterial pathogens.

 

Cost-Related

Food costs will never go down again as long as climate change continues to increase. Farmers will increasingly experience lower crop yields or complete crop failures because of the many climate consequences. Fisheries will suffer because of warming water and other climate related consequences. The prices in domestic animal production will also continually rise because the feed that many of these animals eat is grown and is subject to the same low crop yields and crop failures as human food crops. Expect your food bill to go up by 3 to 5 to as much as 7% or more every year because of climate change consequences global food systems.

Because of increasing climate change consequence costs, homeowners and business owners will be particularly hard hit by unpredictable and near-continuous rises in property insurance costs. Over the past seven years, property insurance has risen 30% in the US alone. In high climate change risk areas where property insurance is still available, the average cost of an insurance policy has risen by 50%.

Property insurance rate uncertainty and increases will devastate new and existing home and business owners and home and business sales because their monthly/yearly overhead involving property insurance will continually increase out of their control. Unpredictable climate change-driven property insurance rate increases are the hardest on first-time homebuyers because they usually spend every penny they have just to move in. This will make it impossible for many first-time homeowners to remain in their homes as climate change worsens and climate change-related property insurance continues to soar as the climate change emergency accelerates.

The real estate market and the business sales market will be hardest hit by the huge home and business property insurance increases. Soon, all new buyers will be factoring in accelerating property insurance rates in every home or business purchase decision. Within 5-10 years, states will require full disclosure of climate change risks and projected property insurance costs for all home and business sales. (More about this in the insurance section further below.)

Home and business expenses will dramatically increase for those individuals and businesses who make the wise decision to move out of medium to high-risk climate change areas. They will make this decision because continual rebuilding will be too expensive, and ever-increasing property insurance will make a living in those homes or operating those businesses financially unviable sooner rather than later. Additionally, the psychological and emotional stress of continuing to rebuild when climate change is predicted to continue to worsen at even faster rates for many decades is unbearable as well as irrational.

In 2025, expect more sudden and temporary severe spikes in prices for your energy bills and other critical commodities because of the sudden changes in climate change-driven extreme weather consequences. Unprecedented sudden weather extremes will drastically affect product distribution and the prices of all kinds of energy (electric, gasoline, home heating oil, diesel, etc.) and other critical commodity inventories, reserves, and transportation. 

More states and nations will require energy-efficient air-conditioning in all new homes, businesses, and even in many older homes as temperatures and heat deaths continue to rise.

There will be increases in taxes worldwide directly due to rapidly rising city, county, state, and national government costs relating to repairs and rebuilding required by the increasing frequency, severity, and scale of climate change disasters.

City, county, state, and national deficits will increase not only in the poor nations but also in the rich nations. These rising deficits will occur because the cost of climate change consequences will rise dramatically faster than in previous years. Very few cities, counties, states, or nations are budgeting anywhere close to the actual cost of accelerating climate change consequences in their annual budgets. This denial of the actual accelerating costs of climate change consequences will force ever-larger city, county, state, and national deficits to be experienced as the climate emergency accelerates. No city, county, state, or national government is discussing the projected 3 to 5% or more of the total GDP that accelerating climate change consequences will soon cost.

More people are going deeper into debt and having bill-paying problems after being impacted by climate change-driven extreme weather events, especially since most of the damages will no longer be paid by the government's emergency relief organizations as the sheer number and severity of these climate catastrophes continue to rise.

More frequent, extreme weather-caused temporary and long-term evacuations from affected areas will occur. These ordered evacuations will cause great hardship and costs to those evacuated.

The fossil fuel industries will continue to be able to export and transfer the above-listed financial costs and losses for the damages and suffering their products cause unfairly to the citizens of every nation. It will be you who will pay the higher local state and national taxes and higher insurance rates. Because of the above climate change effects, you will also have to pay personally for any climate-related damages and losses not covered fully by your insurance.

The most expensive single-incident global climate change disaster in 2025 will approach or exceed 300 billion dollars in total cost. The total cost of ALL global climate change-related damages will significantly exceed 1-2 trillion dollars. In 2025, the US and many other countries will, directly and indirectly, be forced to spend about 3-5% of their total gross domestic product (GDP) on climate change-related consequences. These accelerating climate damage expenses have not been planned into any national budget we know about. (The current US GDP is just over 28 trillion dollars.)

More individuals and businesses will be forced to purchase expensive backup generator systems and other backup power sources because of increasing power outages due to extreme weather. Extreme weather power outages will increase so much that without a backup power source, individual lives and business operations will be seriously compromised.

The disabled and less affluent will suffer disproportionately more because of climate change consequence costs.

In the US, in 2025, the total cost from all climate change-related consequences will exceed $300 billion. Worldwide total climate change related consequences will exceed several trillion dollars. We know of no nation on earth that has yet set up a climate change damage budget for accelerating climate change-related costs. This means the nations of the Earth will continue to have surprise larger and larger budget deficits annually as the climate change emergency continues to accelerate.

Because more homes and businesses will become uninsurable due to the rising property insurance costs of rising climate change consequences and risks, more individuals will decide to relocate rather than rebuild after major climate change catastrophes. Paradoxically, this will create additional homes and business opportunities for low-income individuals willing to buy these properties at drastic losses and live in them or do business in them without any property insurance. Ironically, the climate change emergency will create more low-income housing, and low-income business opportunities that would've never been possible had not been middle and upper-class individuals relocated out of medium to high-risk climate change areas.

One of the worst economic effects of accelerating climate change will be on national and global inflation rates. Because of increasing low crop yields, crop failures, increasing property insurance (in medium to high-risk climate change areas,) as well as the continually rising costs of repairing and rebuilding necessary government and private infrastructure after climate change disaster after climate change disaster (described in this page), no government or state will be able to lower its inflation rates no matter how they try. Inflation rates will stay high, and in many areas, they will continue to rise.

Government deficits, whether budgeted or not, will also continue to rise steeply because the costs of climate change consequences and critical infrastructure repairs nationally and globally will continue to rise. This will force governments to raise taxes to cover ever-increasing climate change disaster costs.

One of the worst cost-related things that will happen in 2025 and beyond is that reinsurance companies (those companies that insure individual insurance companies to spread and share their risks) will also begin canceling reinsurance coverage for the insurance companies they insure who also hold property insurance coverages in medium to high-risk climate change areas. This will make it impossible for insurance companies to carry even the most expensive property insurance for homes and businesses in medium to high-risk climate change areas.

When reinsurance companies cancel the property insurance coverage of insurance companies, no government will be able to force any individual insurance company into carrying property insurance in medium to high-risk climate change areas because they will have to individually assume all of the risk themselves and put their insurance company at risk of sudden bankruptcy as climate change consequences continue to accelerate.

As more and more home and property insurance rates skyrocket or are canceled, it may turn out that nothing may be more powerful to end global and national climate change denial and begin honest climate change reduction than the costs and problems of having home or business property insurance become so expensive (or be canceled) causing homeowners and business owners into unsustainable and unviable financial hardships including eventual relocations. Sooner or later, the painful and loud complaints of homeowners and business owners (and the industries that serve them like realtors) will be so powerful that even the most climate change-denying politicians will need to change course.

 

Infrastructure-Related

You will begin hearing about more highways and railways buckling and crumbling and becoming temporarily or permanently unusable because of new higher temperatures being reached beyond their original design specifications. This consequence will slow or stop the distribution of critical materials on highways and railways.

More infrastructures, such as dams, bridges, etc., will catastrophically fail worldwide because they were constructed to withstand 100-year extreme weather events, not the record-breaking 1,000-year or 10,000-year climate change-driven extreme weather events that are here now and will continue to worsen.

More home and building construction companies will begin to promote and offer more climate change-resilience features. These will be features like fire-resistant walls and roofs, heating and cooling systems that use the ambient temperature of the ground four feet under the home to cool the home in the summer and heat the home in the winter, extra heavy-duty basement sump pumps, two or three times the current size to remove rising and more frequent rain bomb flooding from home and business basements, wind reinforcement, and wind resilience features (like angled or round walls) to combat rising wind storms and wind speeds. As both wind and heat will become more deadly, destructive, and expensive as the climate change emergency accelerates, you will also see more home and business construction companies offering radical new covered earth and other designs created to allow homes and businesses to survive the radical climate changes coming over the next 6 to 20 years.

In 2025 and beyond, China will build more or expand existing dams and reservoirs in Tibet to control the global warming-driven escalating spring flooding runoff' that will only get worse as climate change accelerates. These new or expanded dams and reservoirs will also be critical to preserve whatever water will come out of Tibet after all of the Tibetan glaciers melt. China's intelligence agencies do not deny the realities of the coming climate change catastrophes. They are wisely preparing for them. They are preserving as much of the precious Tibetan water as is necessary for securing China's agricultural future.

Unlike China, rampant and idiotic climate change denial in the US is preventing the US from building the required new dams and reservoirs in new locations to preserve the winter water runoff in the Rocky Mountain areas. The farmers and the ranchers in the western United States will be the pawns and victims of western water shortages and rampant political climate change denial in the United States

 

Business, School, and Work-Related

Individuals and businesses will generally experience more climate change-related extreme weather consequences this year, resulting in significantly more inconveniences, delays, losses, and expenses. More individuals and companies will feel impacted by a never-ending chain of destructive weather events. 

More individuals and businesses will lose wages, sales, and productivity due to delays or repairs needed after climate change-driven extreme weather events. (The poor and middle class will be hardest hit financially by the endless stream of accelerating climate-related disasters.)

More frequent, severe, and costly power outages will last longer and cover larger areas because of high winds, hurricanes, tornadoes, Derechos, downed trees, fires, flooding, and other climate-related extreme weather.

More people will experience more daily commuting delays and disruptions due to climate-related extreme weather events. 

You will begin hearing about slowed transportation services due to high temperatures or flooding. Some trains in some countries will not run or run slowly because their rails will warp in the extreme heat.

More ports and warehouses will flood and go offline. This climate transportation problem will slow or stop the distribution of critical materials on highways and railways.

At some point, more individuals and businesses that have been hit repeatedly by climate-related disasters and have repaired or rebuilt after each disaster will realize that they can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results. They will eventually begin moving and migrating to the limited areas where they will be significantly safer from the worst consequences of runaway global warming, at least for a while longer.

More banks will turn down construction or remodeling loans for homes or buildings in climate change high-risk areas.

More students will experience more off days from school or delays in getting to or from school because of climate change-related extreme weather and consequences.

Farmers, fishermen, and domestic animal producers will find it harder and harder to be profitable as accelerating climate change consequences devastate seasonal stability and skyrocket related costs. Farmers will have low crop yields or lose crops completely. Domestic animal producers will find the plant feeds needed as food for their life stocks growing too expensive because of droughts and the many other climate change consequences causing low feed crop yields and feed crop failures. Governments around the world will then have to subsidize these industries because of their continuing losses at taxpayer expense. Worse yet, these types of losses will continue until climate change is reversed.

 

Environment-Related

There will be more biodiversity loss through more animal, fish, and insect extinctions.

There will be more out-of-control algae blooms in lakes, rivers, and coastal areas due to rising air and water temperatures and various forms of human pollution of the lakes, rivers, and coastal waters.

There will be more shrinking sea ice and ice shelves, glaciers, and snowpack.

Ocean temperatures will continue to increase, creating more intense storms and losses in ocean biodiversity.

Increased ocean acidification will make biological life harder for many species and fish stocks.

Warmer seas and droughts will wreck coastal fisheries, especially salmon (which spawn in drought-ravaged rivers), crab, and lobster. The government departments managing the fisheries will issue shorter fishing seasons more frequently, delay fishing seasons, or even cancel specific fishing seasons for a year or more.

There will be accelerating reef collapses around the world. This negatively affects fish spawning and feeding areas, which causes the collapse of critical protein global fish populations, which causes more human starvation worldwide. 

There will be increased methane releases from melting tundra and permafrost (methane, as a heat-producing greenhouse gas, is about 80 times more potent than carbon in heating the atmosphere.) Melting tundra and permafrost are releasing rapidly growing amounts of methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon. These additional greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere will further increase global warming.

Ever-escalating sea-level rise and related weather-induced flooding will occur near coastal areas, rivers, streams, and lakes.

 

Insurance-Related

Insurance coverage in the age of rising climate change and global warming will be a continuously growing disaster for homeowners and businesses. There will be a steadily increasing loss of all types of insurance covering climate change-related risks.

Accelerating climate change consequences and their huge insurance damage payouts have thrown the global insurance industry into financial chaos. This financial chaos has led many state and national governments to desperately try to force insurance companies to maintain their coverage in medium—to high-risk climate change consequence areas. This government enforcement strategy is a terrible way to create insurance justice that will not solve the problem.

State and national governments forcing insurance companies to maintain climate change-related coverage in medium to high-risk areas is a fool's errand with multiple worse outcomes. If insurance companies are unfairly forced by state or national governments to maintain insurance in medium to higher-risk climate change areas:

1. expect your insurance premiums to rise quickly by 100 to 300 percent or even more. Or, 

2. expect insurance companies to cancel all their policies for homes, businesses, farms, autos, crop failure, and even life insurance in most climate change medium to high-risk areas.

Suppose insurance companies are unfairly forced by state or national governments to maintain insurance in medium to higher-risk climate change areas. In that case, insurance companies will also demand in exchange for preserving coverage: 

1. The government guarantees that they can immediately raise their rates whenever the many different consequences of climate change increase. This would include increasing their rates exactly as much as is needed to cover all additional climate change losses, plus a fair profit margin.

2. The government guarantees they can use new 1,000—and 10,000-year floodplain, wildfire, and extreme weather risk charts. Independent climate change researchers would create these charts because current climate change information used by the US Geological Survey and governments around the world have been wildly distorted by the billions of dollars spent on climate change disinformation by the global fossil fuel cartel. Without further state or national approval, these new charts also allow insurance companies to rapidly expand the definition and size of medium—and high-risk climate change areas to control their risks and losses further. 

3. The government guarantees that the state and national governments will finally do their job to enforce the correct fossil fuel reduction regulations on toxic carbon and methane pollution from fossil fuel use, further reducing insurance companies' climate change risks and losses.

4. The government guarantees that the state or national governments will immediately establish adequate "Managed Retreat" which is state and national buyback funds, funded by taxpayer contributions, will purchase all homes and businesses in climate change medium to high-risk areas that will be severely damaged and destroyed repeatedly. This would be done because any insurance claim payouts provided to damaged and destroyed homes and businesses in those high-risk areas would be a waste of additional valuable taxpayer resources with no discernable benefit.

Financing Managed Retreat would be the full responsibility of state and national governments to make restitution for their decades of failure to protect their citizens from escalating climate change when the horrendous consequences were well-known over 60 years ago.

(Please note that in addition to a very quiet, almost secretive ongoing process of government-funded Managed Retreat, there will be an ever-increasing process of organic managed retreat. Organic management retreat is when a business, farm, or family has been flooded out, burned out, droughted out, smoked out, etc., so often that they cannot go through the emotional, psychological, and financial process of rebuilding one more time. 

They have finally reached the point where they do not expect different future climate change consequences from the accelerating climate change emergency already prevalent in medium to high-risk areas. They are beyond exhausted from this repeated rebuilding process or the process of trying to collect from insurance companies desperate to get out of the climate change business or from dwindling government emergency relief funds with endless red tape that takes years to collect.)

Without these government guarantees, no amount of legal action could be sustained through the court systems that could force insurance businesses to act in a way that would destroy those businesses.

To make things worse, more traditional mortgage insurance companies will soon jump into this insurance chaos and refuse to provide ANY home, business, or farm mortgages for climate change medium to high-risk areas without skyrocketing their mortgage rates. These related home, business, and mortgage insurance cancelations or radical rate increases will eventually directly result in severe real estate and business losses in all climate change medium to high-risk areas because homes, buildings, or farms will be tricky to sell without being able to secure mortgage insurance or obtain home, business or farm insurance.   

Insurance companies on their own are already abandoning their previous and currently near useless 100-year floodplain, wildfire, and extreme weather risk charts and are creating 1,000-year or 10,000-year floodplain, wildfire, and extreme weather risk charts that better reflect current and future climate change risks. These new 1,000 to 10,000-year charts will result in insurance companies dramatically and rapidly expanding their climate change no-insurance zones to stay ahead of rapidly accelerating climate change consequences.

These new 1,000 to 10,000-year risk charts are critical for protecting insurance companies from bankruptcy and unfairly paying for the accelerating consequences and risks of climate change and global warming. Insurance companies also know that the impacts of climate change will rise dramatically from now until 2031 and, after that, exponentially.

Additionally, insurance companies are legally digging in. They are taking the position that they did not cause the highly preventable climate change emergency if governments had done their due diligence and were not grossly negligent. They are also holding the legal position that climate change is not an act of God. They are vigorously forwarding the correct, fair, and legal position that climate change and global warming are a direct result of the long-term inaction and incompetency of state and national governments in regulating fossil fuel companies and fossil fuel use.

Insurance companies are aggressively holding the legal position that state and national governments have failed for over 60 years to regulate the escalating toxic carbon and methane pollution of the global fossil fuel cartel and manage the very well-known rising climate change risks and global warming threat. They are refusing to become the financial "fall guys" for the known and intentional destructive acts of others.

Not unlike corporations, which are held legally responsible for their negligence or harmful acts, insurance companies are taking the legal position that state and national governments (along with the global fossil fuel cartel) are also fully responsible for paying for all of the consequences of climate change because of their decades of unconscionable failure to set and enforce climate change regulations to prevent the climate consequences and losses we are now experiencing.

If state and national governments continue to try to force insurance companies to maintain coverage in medium to high-risk areas (as they are already doing in some areas), insurance companies will find legal and other ways to keep raising rates astronomically so they never lose money, no matter how much climate change's consequences accelerate. Insurance companies have painfully realized they have no choice but to skyrocket insurance rates or rapidly cancel home, business, and mortgage policies in all climate change medium—to high-risk areas to prevent their going bankrupt for a highly predictable and preventable human-made problem.

Accelerating climate change is a known no-win crisis for global insurance companies, and skyrocketing insurance rates or cancelations are already causing a rapidly expanding global insurance coverage crisis. Soon, the climate change-fueled insurance crisis will also cause a real estate and business crisis.

State and national governments unfairly forcing insurance companies to maintain coverage in medium to high-risk climate change areas will prove to be just another failed government policy, not unlike their failure to regulate the toxic fossil fuel pollution of fossil fuel companies causing our current climate change.

Because many insurance companies globally are refusing to cover climate change risks in medium—to high-risk areas no matter what the state or government threatens, many states and governments have started their own climate change-related insurance funds. The problem with these state-run funds is that they are grossly underfunded.

Those citizens who depend upon and pay for these government-run policies as insurance of last resort will get a fraction of what was promised as climate consequences worsen. These state-run, underfunded insurance policies will eventually collapse, and those who paid into them will lose everything in the following chain of climate change disasters. 

Currently, the state-run climate change insurance funds have no required minimum cash reserve levels besides being grossly underfunded. A good example of these poorly conceived, underfunded state-run climate change insurance funds is found in the brainchild of California Governor Gavin Newsom and his climate change advisory team. It appears that our politicians will do anything but confront the facts of the climate change emergency and immediately enact and enforce the correct fossil fuel use reductions needed to save humanity from climate change chaos and widespread extinction.

Over the next 10 years, one in 10 homes and businesses in high and even medium-risk climate change areas will become uninsurable. At its very best, governments attempting to force insurance coverage will only result in insane premiums that no one can pay but billionaires. 

The bottom line for insurance companies and reinsurance companies is that if they continue to accept or extend property insurance coverages to homes or businesses in medium to high-risk climate change areas, they will soon go bankrupt. Not only will they go bankrupt, but before they go bankrupt, they will radically increase their staff's policy service costs dealing with angry customers in larger and larger climate change catastrophes. Climate change related risks have become the ultimate no-win market segment for the insurance industry.

Click here for another detailed article on this accelerating wave of insurance problems and the growing difficulty in obtaining home and mortgage insurance in quickly growing climate change high-risk areas.

 

Politics-Related

At first, there will be a temporary economic surge in construction and home and business repair caused by increasing climate change consequences and disasters. This climate change repair and rebuild strategy will continue in some areas of medium to high climate change disaster zones. Eventually, the city, county, state, or national governments will be unable to repeatedly help fund, rebuild, or repair homes or businesses for the uninsured or the underinsured inside these dangerous climate change zones. Many governments will then switch to less expensive "Managed Retreat" strategies.

Accelerating climate change consequences will cause governments to purchase more homes and businesses under the managed retreat strategy. Managed retreat was designed to save money on futile new disaster repetitive climate change repairs and rebuilding.

Eventually, "Managed Retreat" strategies will no longer work because taxpayers will rebel against the rising tax burden needed to pay for this strategy. (See the Insurance-Related Consequence section for a more robust discussion of Managed Retreat and government coverage of climate change costs.)

There will continue to be a mass human migration of climagees (climate refugees) to the safer global warming zones. In 2019, the United Nations estimated that 100 million individuals migrated from high-risk areas to safer areas or countries because of their homelands' deteriorating climate. In 2025, because of the increases in the primary and secondary consequences of climate change, the number of climagees will be from 120 million to 160 million.

States and governments worldwide will be declaring more climate change disaster-related states of emergency in 2025. These expensive emergency mobilizations to cope with rising climate disasters will drain public tax revenues and wear down disaster relief personnel.

As climate change consequences continue to intensify, there will be an increase in fear and uncertainty in the general public. The general public worldwide has not been told how severe climate change consequences will become. Consequently, when they see them intensifying, breaking record after record with their own eyes, it will be harder for the public to maintain the cognitive dissonance of believing everything will be OK with the climate while witnessing increasing climate change destruction.

When fear and certainty rise in the general public, the general public becomes vulnerable to dictators, authoritarian groups, and governments telling them they can fix their problems and that they will be safe if they only accept restrictions on human rights or Marshall law, etc. As climate change worsens, you will see a continual rise in dictatorial governments and a significant decline in democracies worldwide.

There will be a rise in religious fundamentalism and religious extremism as more people become fearful of the ever-increasing negative climate changes they see occurring but do not understand. Matching this troubling pattern will be similar patterns in politics, creating a rise in political fundamentalism and extremism.

Accelerating climate change consequences will amplify and multiply the stresses on almost everyone and do the same to nearly all of the world's major problems. This is especially true in underdeveloped countries where increased climate stresses, poor management, and lack of resources will quickly aggravate the existing problems within those countries beyond crisis levels. As climate change worsens, you will first see widespread ecological, political, economic, and social system collapses occurring in the weakest areas of the world and then spreading to the next weakest area.

Because of so many accelerating climate change consequences occurring worldwide, more people will acknowledge that climate change is real and that it is dangerous and we must do something about it. As this occurs in the general population, you will gradually see politicians who were climate deniers or receiving money from the global fossil fuel cartel change their climate change positions and begin to acknowledge climate change is real and call for climate change regulation to reduce the growing consequences.

 

Miscellaneous-Related

Personal road trips and vacations will take longer or be disrupted more frequently because of more climate change-related extreme weather events.

Sometime during 2025, the high barrier wall being expanded by the new US administration at the southern US border, which was designed to keep out migrants, will start being called the climate change wall. As the climate change emergency worsens, more individuals and organizations worldwide will recognize the wall for what it is becoming.

In the news, you will begin to hear about more climate researchers and knowledgeable high-level government employees living in medium to higher-risk climate change areas quietly moving themselves and their families to lower climate change risk areas.

Record-breaking climate change-driven weather will soon become so regular that you will hardly give it much attention. But those paying attention will see every kind of weather record being broken by greater and greater amounts at faster and faster rates.

In 2021, 75% of the world experienced weather extremes due to climate change, like those mentioned in this document. In 2025, that percentage goes to 90% of humanity or more.

In 2025, most of humanity will still not grasp that if we do not come close to the correct 75% global fossil fuel reduction targets sometime close to 2025 (but no later than 2031 if we are very fortunate,) about half of humanity will die by mid-century.

In 2025, global action to fix the climate change emergency will not change significantly from its current denial and avoidance of the real, honest, and practical actions needed to fix this global emergency. Only drastic and widespread painful personal and business climate change disruption will sufficiently increase our collective emergency awareness to compel effective governmental climate change action.

Major environmental groups will continue to allow the incorrect and fossil fuel-friendly and "far too little, far too late" fossil fuel reduction targets of the world governments to go unchallenged. 

A more significant portion of humanity will gradually become aware of the truth of our global warming extinction emergency and that our governments have failed for decades to make the required global fossil fuel reductions when global fossil fuel reduction would have been far easier to make and could have been far more gradual and less painful.

Beginning in 2025, more people worldwide will slowly understand that accelerating climate change is and will continue to be the greatest disruptor of the 21st century. They will also begin to see that accelerating climate change is a threat multiplier and amplifier of most of humanity's other major global crises and problems.

Most individuals will begin grasping that mass human extinction (aka the Climate Change Apocalypse or Climageddon) is not something that will occur far off in the future. They will see that the foundation for it is already in place and that, in many poorer climate change-vulnerable nations, a climate change-driven Climageddon is already occurring. 

In 2025, we will enter the atmospheric CO2 carbon 425-450 ppm threshold caused by our global burning of fossil fuels. As of December 2024, we are at the carbon 425 ppm range. Staying below the carbon 425-450 ppm threshold level is humanity's last chance to save the future from a massive human die-off. 

Today, December 10th, we are at 422 ppm of carbon CO2 and 524 ppm of CO2 Equivalent. (The CO2 equivalent measurement combines all three carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide greenhouse gases into one measurement. Our 524 ppm of CO2 equivalent means we are in profound trouble because a 450 ppm CO2 equivalent has always been the limit for the old 2C equilibrium warming. This equivalent warming warning means at that 450 ppm CO2 equivalent level, humanity is already doomed to reach a 2°C global warming increase, and that cannot be stopped for centuries to thousands of years.

(Click here to read why a horrible mass die-off outcome will likely happen.)

Humanity will eventually reach the point where it can no longer endure the escalating consequences of climate change, and humanity will finally act. But unfortunately, it may be too late for most of us to survive if humanity does not act soon.

In Job One's home, San Francisco, California, our city will wisely be the first to change its planned 2-3-foot climate change protective bay sea wall plans and build at least a six to ten-foot sea wall to survive correct and honest projected sea-level rise over the following decades.

If you have read everything above about the many 2025 consequences of climate change, you are likely feeling unsettled. The good news is you now have a more accurate overview than 99,9999999 % of the population about what individuals and businesses worldwide will be dealing with climate change damages, disruptions, costs, and consequences in 2025. More importantly, this knowledge will allow you to begin planning how you will adapt to or prepare for what is coming. (Section 8, further down this page, will link you to information designed to help you adapt and prepare.)

 

Six last thoughts for our 2025 climate change consequence forecast:

 

1. The consequences of climate change are no longer growing slowly year to year. They are dramatically accelerating in frequency, severity, and size because we are crossing more climate systems and subsystem tipping points, feedbacks, and points of no return. At this point, every home, business, and community should have a backup energy supply system. You will need a backup energy system because widespread power outages will continue to accelerate as record-breaking extreme weather events occur more frequently and cover larger areas worldwide.

 

2. If you remember nothing else from this page other than what is in this section, you have basically everything you need to know about where the climate future is going. Namely:

a. our climate change consequences are going to become more severe, more frequent, and cover larger areas,

b. climate change consequences will become the greatest disruptor of the 21st century,

c. climate change consequences will greatly multiply and amplify humanity's other major global problems into a stew of worsening disasters and catastrophes. There will be significantly more destruction, financial loss, suffering, and death in 2025 caused directly or indirectly by climate change consequences.

 

3. More individuals, businesses, and farms will relocate rather than rebuild after a climate change-related disaster in any medium to high-risk climate change area. After a business, farm, or family has been flooded out, burned out, droughted out, smoked out, etc., more of them will not want to go through the emotional, psychological, and financial process of rebuilding with a higher probability they will soon have to do it again as climate change continues to escalate. Wisely, they no longer expect a different future for climate change consequences in a worsening climate change emergency. They know the repeated rebuilding process, the process of trying to collect from insurance companies or collecting from dwindling government emergency relief funds, will take years and ultimately, will be an additional waste of money and time added to all the money and time losses from the original climate disaster.

 

4. A prudent and reasonable individual could consider that it is now time to get prepared for and ready to adapt to what is coming. Start our comprehensive Job One Climate Change Resilience Plan today by clicking here.

 

5. As climate change consequences and conditions worsen, there will be a continuous flow of intentionally misleading global fossil fuel cartel-sponsored fake good climate change news.

Fake good climate change news is defined as climate news that does not directly and effectively reduce the amount of the greenhouse gases of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere to the levels necessary to save humanity from climate chaos and mass human extinction.

This uptick in cartel-financed fake climate change good news is meant to hide and deny the real climate change emergency or deflect attention from the need to do anything genuinely effective about it by cutting global fossil fuel use. This fake good climate news will sound wonderful and hopeful. It will talk about some minimal progress in various climate areas, and this "feel-good" progress still will not effectively change the current accelerating climate change emergency in any meaningful way that will prevent climate chaos and mass human extinction.

Please don't be fooled by the fake climate change good news, which hides and denies the utter and total failure of humanity's current climate change management actions. Never forget the climate emergency is getting worse at even faster rates as demonstrated by the greenhouse gas illustration below.

 

 

6. If you're concerned about what you've read about your climate future, you can do something powerful about it.

1. Email a link to this forecast to your local, state, and national politicians and ask them what they are going to do about the climate change emergency to get your vote in the next election.

2. Please also send this 2025 climate change consequences forecast to everyone you love or who should have it so they, too, can be prepared. Most people have no idea how bad climate change is going to get or how fast it is going to happen. The billions of dollars spent by the global fossil fuel cartel on climate change misinformation and disinformation have been an overwhelming success in the media and as a truth-suppressing influence over our governments and the UN IPCC. Click here to read the documentation on how the global fossil fuel cartel is keeping you in the dark about the extreme climate change danger and their liability for it that you, your family, and your businesses are experiencing or will experience.

 

In 2025, where you live will determine the severity, frequency, and scale of climate change's increasing consequences.

In general, other than for microclimates, if you live between the 35th parallel north and the 35th parallel south, your climate change primary and secondary consequences will be considerably worse than in other areas of the world. On the other hand, if you live between the 35th and 45th parallels, either north or south, your climate change consequences will be less severe but still horrible.

If you live between the 45th and 55th parallels, your consequences will be lighter than most other areas but still painful. If you live above the 55th parallel north or south, you will still have many severe consequences. In many ways, these consequences are worse than for those living between the 45th and 55th parallel. You will experience more wildfires, and temperatures will be much higher than ever; melting permafrost and tundra will cause infrastructure problems, and growing food in these areas will be more challenging.

 

 

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Section 2: The Biggest Climate Change Tipping Points and Disaster Warning Signs to Monitor in 2025

1. Methane feedback emissions are the single most significant climate change tipping point and warning sign to monitor closely in 2025.

Methane is about 80 times more potent than carbon in the atmosphere in raising global temperature. 

Methane emissions are now being released in rapidly increasing quantities from the peat-rich wetlands of the world's primarily tropical wetlands, some from subarctic peatlands and thawing permafrost. 

This methane release from tropical wetlands and subarctic peatlands is one of many climate change positive feedback loop situations. (Below is an illustration of a positive feedback loop for melting ice that will help you understand the danger of self-reinforcing and amplifying positive feedback loops in climate change. Notice how feedback loops are circular, where each thing adds more to the next item on and on.)

 

 

Worse yet, few national governments have methane tracking regulations; even fewer have methane reduction laws or programs. This absence of methane tracking and reduction targets is no accident. The fossil fuel industry and its lobbying efforts have been unbelievably successful in hiding the methane time bomb from the general public.

Methane is also released from:

a. fossil fuel industry fracking,

b. gasoline and diesel fuel production, and 

c. the billions and billions of cattle and other livestock, 

d. the many other methane-releasing climate change feedback loops discussed here.

We are facing nothing less than a global methane time bomb that could render almost all of humanity extinct within a few decades. 

The global methane extinction time bomb is discussed here. It is described as the third extinction accelerating climate tipping point about 2/3 down the page.

The methane graph below soars to levels not seen over the last 10,000 years. (Notice how methane in the atmosphere started to soar at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, about 1870.)

 

 

 

 

1. The next worst climate issue is the climate feedback loop of the loss of Arctic sea ice for most of the summer.

The earliest published projection for the Arctic Sea to be completely ice-free during the summer is 2035. But, it is possible for there to be an abrupt and catastrophically massive loss of Arctic sea ice any year before 2035. 

A vast or complete ice loss of Arctic summer sea ice will drive even larger methane and carbon emissions from subarctic peatlands and thawing permafrost. 

When all Arctic sea ice is gone in the summers, many of the Arctic amplifying feedbacks will interact and become inter-reinforcing. As a result, the climate system and life will be pushed by orders of magnitude harder than ever before. So, stay tuned and carefully monitor the news for major Arctic summer sea ice losses!

 

 

 

 

 2. The next most critical global climate tipping point is major worldwide rivers drying up or dropping dangerously low.

For example, this happened in the US drying Colorado and China Yangtze river. As more worldwide rivers dry up in the summers, hundreds of millions of people will be severely affected by water shortages, skyrocketing electric bills, crop failures, etc.

 

This article about the Colorado River crisis explains how millions could be harmed by skyrocketing electric and water bills and much more.

This article discusses the Yangtze River crisis. 

 

3. There are many other critical climate tipping points and climate feedback loops to observe in the news.

 

 

We know the above is terrible news for 2025, but please remember the most crucial thing after reading our 2025 forecast. 

Our governments and politicians have squandered the last 60 years in inaction or ineffective climate change actions. If they had acted effectively, fixing climate change could have been much easier and more gradual.

Suppose our governments enforced the now-required fossil fuel reductions and came close to the legitimate and radical 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets for their nation. In that case, we still can avoid many but not all of the worst consequences listed on this page. 

But, we only can save much of humanity if we all work together to compel our governments and politicians to act NOW!

And finally, if you are concerned about what you can do about the climate change emergency and protect yourself, click here.

 

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Section 3: How the 2025 climate change consequences of intensifying climate change will affect your life will not be how most people think it will happen.

The many consequences of climate change will unfold slowly. In general, the consequences of climate change usuallydevelop in cyclical, sporadic surges. These erratic but cyclical climate change consequence surges will continue to increase in severity, frequency, and scale, often reaching new record levels. 

After reaching new record levels, the climate change consequence will quickly fall back to near-normal or even below-normal levels. After a consequence falls from record levels, it most likely will move into a plateau level (either below or above the previous normal level) before beginning another cycle of increased severity, frequency, and scale, often reaching another new record level and then, once again, falling back down quickly to near-normal levels.

This three-phased cyclical steep up, quick down, and back to the near previous typical pattern will prevent many individuals from seeing climate change's long-term patterns and trends. This climate consequence pattern ignorance will make individuals and businesses vulnerable to the next sporadic intensifying cycle of climate change-driven catastrophes. 

In part, the most common climate change-driven extreme weather consequences are defined as heatwaves, heat domes, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, cyclones, tornados, floods and flooding, rain bombs, wind storms [Derechos], dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and other abnormal unseasonal weather. But those are only a few of the many climate change consequences we will soon be experiencing at intensifying levels. 

If you begin to think about climate change consequences occurring in the pattern of more frequent, more severe, and larger-scaled sporadic "waves" that eventually affect and break down the standard patterns of our lives, you would have a good idea about how climate change consequences will unfold this year and over the following decades. Do not panic or worry if a climate change consequence spikes to a new record, like soaring land or sea temperatures for a week, a month, or even a season. It will eventually drop to near its normal range, but that is only a tiny part of the climate consequence problem. 

The real problem, which is invisible to most people, will be that almost all climate change consequences will continue to sporadically increase in severity, frequency, and scale season-by-season, year-by-year, and decade-by-decade:

1. From now until 2025, on average, most climate change consequences will increase in intensity at a significantly accelerated rate.

2. From 2025-2031, on average, the intensity of most climate change consequences will increase dramatically. There will be a dramatic increase in severe global climate catastrophes.

3. From 2031-2050, on average, the intensity of many of the worst climate change consequences will increase near-exponentially. Many severe global climate catastrophes will occur regularly, making it challenging to cope with all the waves of damage and losses.

The good news is that by understanding how climate change will unfold in sporadic intensifying waves over the following decades, you will have time to prepare, adapt, and hopefully help change the dangerous direction of the world's accelerating climate change consequences. 

 

 

Use the above graphic to imagine how climate change consequences will unfold. The green bars represent how new records will be broken over time (left to right). The blue bars represent how, after each new broken climate change consequence record, that consequence will drop back steeply and quickly to plateau at near-normal levels and stay that way for a while. Unfortunately, even the normal plateau levels of many consequences will continue increasing gradually.

The only very scary thing that can change the above-described cyclical, more gradual climate change consequence escalation pattern is humanity crossing major climate tipping points or major climate feedback loops, as we are doing now. Crossing these two things separately or together will cause global climate change consequences to accelerate dramatically and then exponentially.

Please see the graph below to understand what we mean by saying that almost all climate change consequences will rise dramatically and exponentially after crossing tipping points. This illustration shows not only the gross failure of your governments to regulate and protect you from the accelerating consequences of climate change caused by burning more and more fossil fuel, but it also illustrates how the acceleration of climate change consequences after tipping points are crossed will directly follow and parallel the steep rise of the three major greenhouse gases polluting our atmosphere.

The graph below shows the three major fossil fuel-related greenhouse gases: carbon (CO2), methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). The numbers at the bottom of the illustration are dates in history AD.  PPB is parts per billion. PPM is parts per million. (The IPCC is the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. AR6 is the IPCC's climate summary report. NOAA is the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.) As you can see below, we are walking into a very dangerous climate change consequence future.

 

 

 

 Special Climate Change Financial Loss and Damage Notice

There are time limitations for collecting climate change damage restitution from the perpetrator of climate change, the members of the global fossil fuel cartel.

If you have just experienced a climate change-related extreme weather event involving any heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes and cyclones, flooding, rain bombs, wind storms (Derechos), dust storms, wildfire smoke events, unseasonable cold spells, and abnormal unseasonal weather and, you need to begin the process for financial recovery and restitution by reading this page as soon as possible due to time limitations on filing for restitution from harmful acts. This page will connect you to successful law firms handling this specialty.

If you have experienced damage to your home, business, or farm from climate change-related consequences, you must begin a lawsuit against all related parties ASAP. Some wealthy companies have directly caused the climate change emergency and the damages you have experienced or that, as part of their legally required due diligence, should have informed you of the relevant climate change risks. 

The number of court cases focused on the global climate change crisis and its consequent damages has doubled since 2015, bringing the total number to over 2,000, according to a report by European researchers last year. More than two dozen US cities and states are suing big oil, alleging the fossil fuel industry knew for decades about the dangers of burning coal, oil, and gas and actively hid that information from consumers and investors. 

 

2025 mini summary

2025 will be a year of significantly increased climate-related stress, inconvenience, and financial loss. Daily personal and business routines will be disrupted regularly or delayed more frequently. 

These problems will occur because of climate-related extreme weather and its consequences, particularly product or assistance distribution disruptions and crop failures. In 2025, many of us will notice significant food and other commodity price spikes and an increase in product shortages due to climate-related business and distribution disruptions and crop lower yields and failures. 

Over the last decade, we have updated and reissued this annual forecast every late December or early January. Because of its proven accuracy year after year, it is our most shared web page. 

 

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Section 4: How the change in the US Government administration with the new 47th US president radically worsens humanity's climate change consequences.

in 2025 the major political philosophy change in the US government administration presents significant new problems for the climate change movement and forecasting. Because the incoming US administration has already said that they will cut green energy generation subsidies and promote more fossil fuel production, there will be a major negative effect on climate change management and reduction.

Although the US is the biggest worldwide producer of fossil fuels, the probability that the new administration will promote even more fossil fuel extraction and sales creates a colossal climate change problem not just in and for the United States. Every other fossil fuel-producing country or any country that wants to remain fossil fuel energy competitive and profitable will be forced to mirror the fossil fuel-promoting positions and actions of the new US administration. This mirroring will, unfortunately, exponentially multiply the worldwide adverse effects of burning fossil fuels triggered by the huge anticipated US increase in fossil fuel production and sales.

Additionally, because the new US administration promises to cut green energy subsidies, the exact harmful behavior-mirroring effect will echo worldwide as other nations do the same to maintain their competitiveness. History has repeatedly and painfully proven that people, companies, and governments will quickly imitate whatever is profitable.

The new US administration is also a strong promoter of Bitcoin. Bitcoin servers demand extreme to ridiculously high energy use. We anticipate that any widespread new promotion and acceptance of Bitcoin will counterbalance any global gains in our present anemic and grossly inadequate fossil fuel use reduction programs. The growth of Bitcoin will worsen climate change and global warming even more quickly.

The new 2025 US administration's projected position on cutting or removing green energy subsidies is a monster future economic disaster for the United States. This is because China already has a nearly insurmountable lead in manufacturing green energy generation and green energy-dependent products. Once the new US administration enacts the cutting or reducing of US green energy generation and green product subsidies, the United States will have seeded to China the world's most profitable future segment of manufacturing and business.

Most people do not know that energy production is the world's largest market segment. It accounts for about 25-30% of the world's total gross product (GDP.) When you include all green energy-related products needed in the future, this market segment could approach 35-40% of the total world GDP.

The new US administration's green energy short-sightedness policies will accelerate China's current massive lead in the world's green energy generation equipment production segment and the green products segment. This green energy short-sightedness will create a future green energy competitiveness deficit in the US future economy that the US will never recover from. China will become the unbeatable world's largest producer of green energy products, the critcal future direction of humanity's energy use.

Additionally, over the next several decades, we estimate that the many consequences of the new US administration's contrarian and counterintuitive energy policies and its enthusiastic promotion of the energy-greedy Bitcoin during an accelerating climate change emergency will increase the destructiveness and timeframes of global climate change consequences by about 10 to 25% from our previous dire estimates. 

The major change in economic strategy surrounding fossil fuel energy, green energy generation, and green products by the new US administration may be the last straw and final death rattle for any hope of resolving the climate change emergency before humanity enters the second irreversible stage of runaway global warming once it crosses the atmospheric carbon 450 parts per million. (Click here to read about the four stages of irreversible runaway global warming and their catastrophic and extinction-accelerating consequences.)

One of the most bizarre statements by members of the new US administration has to do with buying Greenland. For most people, that looks like some kind of a statement out of the blue with no relevance to anything. But to the few in right-leaning political and intelligence think tanks this is one of the key moves of the future.

What the new administration and these rightly leaning think tanks won't say and must keep secret is that they already know that widespread global collapse and extinction are coming. They know it is now unavoidable because we have totally failed to reduce global fossil fuel use for the last 60 years.

These few deep thinkers in the right-leaning think tanks may think the accelerating global collapse process is 50-70 years away, while some may even think it's only 15 to 25 years away. No matter what their timetable or beliefs are, they know the common solution is to acquire the safest land areas least affected by climate change in negative ways.

This means that the current US administration wants to buy Greenland for the future climate security of the United States. In Greenland there will be large amounts of new land being exposed as the glaciers melt and it warms. They know that Greenland is so far away from everything else it is easily defended. Greenland would be an ideal place to transport key members of the American government and their families and the wealthiest Americans while the rest of the world suffers the collapse and chaos as climate change continues to worsen at a faster pace.

Right-leaning think tanks cannot let the public know they understand that climate change-driven collapse and chaos are coming. They would be blamed for it and it goes directly against the profit interest of their major financial funders. The hidden agenda of these right-leaning think tanks is for their funders to continue to profit during the process of collapse and chaos, and correspondingly so they keep getting funded so they can be secretly preparing for the collapse as well.

Many of the financial funders of the right-leaning think tanks profited from creating the climate change emergency. Why shouldn't their owned right-leaning think tanks hide the real climate change information from the public so that their financial funders can profit equally as well during the collapse of humanity?

There also is a large group of right-leaning think tank funding billionaires and industrialists who fully understand what is coming and have already prepared their survival bunkers around the world. Only the poor, the ignorant, and those without power are going to be caught in the worst of the climate change-driven consequences, chaos, and extinction.

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The Climate Change Forecast Part 2, 2026-2031

 

Section 5: The Longer-Term Forcasted Consequences of Climate Change and Global Heating from 2026 to 2031

We will cross a key climate change tipping point range in the next from 2026 to 2031. It is the critical atmospheric carbon threshold level of carbon 425-carbon 450 parts per million (ppm).

As we cross this key climate tipping point, it will cause climate change consequences not to continue to gradually increase in frequency, severity, and scale as they are doing now. Instead, climate change consequences will grow dramatically in frequency, severity, and scale.

More specifically:

We predict that between 2025 and 2031, the frequency of many climate change consequences will come close to doubling.

Between 2025 and 2031, the severity of these consequences will rise dramatically, and in many cases, it will come close to reaching double the previous severity.

Between 2025 and 2031, the size of areas affected by climate change consequences will also dramatically increase. In many cases, between 2025 and 2031, climate consequences will affect areas coming close to twice the area of what we are seeing in 2024. 

Hearing that climate change consequences will, in many cases, double over this very short period from 2025-2031 is disheartening and scary. A key reason for this has to do with the Climageddon Feedback Scenario, which describes a scenario where more and more of the climate change tipping points, feedback loops, and nonlinear reactions between the climate system and sub-systems are crossed and triggered, causing a rapid acceleration of climate change consequences. The Climageddon Feedback Scenario is fully explained with many illustrations on this page. (Job One wants you to understand the analysis behind statements like from 2025 to 2031, many climate change consequences will double as discussed above.)

When we are pushed beyond the carbon 425-450 ppm climate change tipping point about 2031 and beyond, many climate change consequences will soon begin to increase exponentially, and we will enter into a second and irreversible phase of runaway global heating!

Irreversible climate change means we will not be able to get the dangerous levels of excess greenhouse gases (like carbon) out of our atmosphere and back down to a normal and human-safe pre-industrial level for hundreds to thousands of years. (As of December of 2024, We are currently at the insane atmospheric carbon level of 425 ppm. We will soon enter and pass through the irreversible second phase of runaway global heating sometime around late 2027-2031. This runaway phase occurs when we enter the carbon 425-450 ppm range.)

Because we will enter and cross this critical climate threshold, the years 2025-3031 will have much worse climate change consequences. Much more of the detailed climate science for additional reasons why our climate change consequences will get so much worse from 2025 to 2031 and why this threshold is so critical to the survival of humanity is fully explained on this page. 

We strongly recommend reading this page because it will help you understand how we cross into irreversible, runaway global heating. Irreversible runaway global heating is where the average global temperature keeps rising from 2°C to 3°C to 4°C and eventually far beyond any level much of humanity could survive.

We have provided the following graph to help illustrate how dangerous an exponential increase in climate change consequences is. In the graph below, the red line is an example of a gradual linear, steady, and mostly predictable climate change consequence growth trajectory. (Linear progression equals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, etc.) The green line below is an example of a sudden, exponential, and highly unpredictable climate change consequence growth trajectory. (Exponential progression equals 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 264, etc.)

 

 

 

An exponential climate change consequence increase corresponds precisely to when we cross the critical atmospheric carbon 425-450 ppm threshold and climate change tipping point. Never forget that, at best, we have only until about 2025 and maybe up to 2031 to reduce global fossil fuel use to the survival-critical 2025 target levels, or we will not just lose half of humanity by about mid-century; we will proceed toward near total extinction after mid-century. (We are currently at about carbon 425 ppm, as shown in the blue CO2 graph further above.) 

Here are the major consequences to watch from 2026 to 2031, many of which will also be increasing in frequency, severity, and scale:

1. 1. 1. There will be far more work disruptions and production stresses. The human capacity to work outside or in building enclosures will decrease significantly as temperatures accelerate and new records are broken. Not including dealing with further extreme weather consequences, accelerating climate change will cause more and longer costly business, production, and distribution delays and interruptions.
      2. Worldwide, city, zoning, and planning departments and long-range corporate planners will begin amending their building and other codes and their long-term plans to compensate for or adapt to the accelerating severity of climate change-related consequences. Cities will have to start expanding their sewer systems because of rain bombs, raising highways from flood-prone areas, building expensive sea walls, and moving key electrical, communication, water purification, and sewage treatment plants from high-risk flood or fire areas. They will also have to change their building codes so that homes and buildings can survive the 1,000-year extreme storms and category six hurricanes and tornadoes that will soon be coming regularly.
      3. For every one degree of further global temperature rise, the atmosphere will take up and hold another 7% of water vapor through evaporation. This additional water vapor in the atmosphere does not only mean more rain in certain areas, but it also means that rain bombs will also grow more frequent and intense, with 20-30 inches of rain falling within a day or two common in many areas. 
      4. Food prices will continue to soar globally because of climate consequences, causing crop yields to drop or some crops to fail. Expect to pay a much larger percentage of your total budget to buy the same or lesser amounts of food.
      5. More climagees (climate refugees) will also migrate from high-risk climate areas to low-risk areas within large nations. In the US and Europe, we estimate that both regions will soon reach 3 million climate migrants per year. By the late 2030s, 300 million to 1 billion or more people worldwide will be displaced or migrating because of the many interrelated and accelerating climate change consequences. (If the Thwaites Doomsday glacier collapses, the migration numbers will be closer to 1 billion or more.) 
      6. Immigration laws in global-warming-safer countries will become stricter due to surging climate migrations. Many nations will close their borders entirely due to being overwhelmed by climate migrants.
      7. There will be substantial ongoing economic losses. (Most nations will spend an ever-increasingpercentage of their total gross domestic product (GDP) directly or indirectly paying for the many consequences of the global warming emergency in 2025. The cost of living for repair, maintenance, building, or rebuilding in the safer global warming areas will continue to rise significantly. By the early 2030s, the US and many other countries will, directly and indirectly, spend about 5%-10% of their total gross domestic product (GDP) on climate change-related consequences and disasters. 
      8. Global stock and commodity markets, which have grossly underestimated the costs and the multitude of business problems associated with the plethora of interrelated climate change consequences, will begin to experience wild market swings and some collapses in the weaker markets. Because of new climate-related economic shocks to the markets, the probability of an economic recession or depression on national or global levels becomes significantly higher. 
      9. People with low incomes will get much poorer because of continuously escalating climate consequences, disasters, and work interruptions.
      10. A widespread crime rate increase will be survival driven by increased climate change consequences that will expand a starving, unemployed, and poorer citizen and migrant population. (Imagine hundreds of millions of desperate individuals worldwide trying to stay alive by any means possible! That increasing desperation will drive up crime rates worldwide. In 2025, the US alone will face about 3+ million annual climate migrants seeing legal and illegal entry into the US.)
      11. More climate scientists, climate researchers, climate-informed individuals, and well-informed ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations will be discretely migrating to or buying land in the world's remaining global warming-safe areas. This safer land is only about 5% of the world's available landmass. 
      12. As they grasp the severity and accelerating difficulties of the climate extinction emergency, more individuals will become doomers or doomsday peppers. A recent survey showed that 50% of Generation Z believe they are doomed. 
      13. Democracies can only exist and grow with an environmental, food, and resource surplus or sufficiency. Because of accelerating climate change-related consequences and the stresses they create, democracies worldwide will become less democratic and more authoritarian. This change will happen because climate change will destroy valuable food resources. With more food destroyed or other unusable or unavailable resources, the world's population will become significantly more competitive, more aggressive, and more polarized. More local, regional, and national climate migration and food and water shortages will aggravate national wars and conflicts. If the nations of the world are not very careful and controlled, these regional and national climate-driven conflicts could also create a real threat of regional or national nuclear war.
      14. The fossil fuel industry will not give up trying to make the world's population believe it is safe when it is not. To keep massive profits rolling in from its toxic products, it will start or continue promoting things like clean hydrogen made from methane from fracking, clean coal, clean gasoline, and who knows, they might even find a way to sell us clean green tar sands.
      15. The fundamental climate normalcy and relative stability that humanity has come to depend upon for its existence for tens of thousands of years are now gone. Severe climate instability and unpredictability are the new climate reality.
      16. Governments will realize they need to be adequately funded to keep repairing damages from climate catastrophes. Due to increasing climate-related disasters and growing delays in getting disaster relief and aid, more governments worldwide will require their citizens to have at least a two-week supply of food, water, and other needed supplies.
      17. Climate change is no longer a problem for our grandchildren as it was 60 years ago. It is already a severe problem for generations X, Y, Z, and all new generations. Runaway global heating is accelerating so fast that even the baby boomers and other retirees will feel its painful and bitter stings as their lives come to a close.
      18. Sadly, we will not likely come close enough to reach the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets! (We had to reduce ALL fossil fuel burning in developed countries (including China and India) by about 75% by close to 2025 (and considerably and justly less than that in undeveloped countries. This near-impossible 75% global fossil fuel reduction exists because our governments wasted 60 years of warnings when these reductions could have been easier and gradual.) 
      19. Even more climate-change-driven extreme weather records will be broken.
      20. The ocean waters of the tropics and middle latitudes will grow warmer. This warming water will cause the plankton to migrate north or south into colder waters. When the plankton moves north or south into colder waters, the fish stocks that depend upon this plankton as the stable bottom for their food change will also move north or south. This fish stock relocation means millions of additional people who rely on fish for protein in the tropics and middle latitudes will starve.
      21. Food prices will skyrocket to compensate for severe crop losses. Food prices will be considerably more than the typical cost of living increases, and they will become a dominant portion of the budgets of the poor and middle class. Food insecurity will skyrocket, and world hunger and starvation will rise dramatically. Many poor to middle-class people will have to create a local garden and start hunting wildlife to survive skyrocketing food prices and food distribution shortages.
      22. Many more people will suffer and die from 2025-2031 because of climate change-related consequences. The number of people worldwide who will die from the direct and indirect effects of the primary and secondary climate change consequences will increase radically to around 250-350 million people. (As conditions worsen drastically, climate change-related suicides will also climb steadily in many areas.)
      23. If the Thwaites Doomsday glacier collapses during this period, the world is looking at a very rapid and completely unmanageable, 2 to 3-foot sea level rise.
      24. The total number of climate migrants trying to enter only the US legally or illegally until 2031 will be about 28-45+ million individuals. Europe will also experience massive illegal immigration.
      25. Long-held water rights will begin to be lost to government regulations as sporadic and long-term droughts affect vital areas of nations. Despite previous water rights and laws, governments will be forced to provide water for their citizens and other critical uses.
      26. Climate change-related crimes will rise significantly during this period. Governments will have to create larger police forces, courts, and jails to handle the rising crime as society becomes more unstable due to accelerating climate change loss and damage. Increasing numbers of climate change-displaced individuals whose resources have been severely depleted by climate change loss and damage will turn to crime to stay alive.
      27. Atmospheric rivers that have been hitting the West Coast of the United States during the winter months will significantly increase the amount of water they release wherever they hit land. They will no longer be called atmospheric rivers. They will begin to be called flood-stage atmospheric rivers.
      28. Because of the ever-increasing climate change consequences occurring around the world fear and scarcity will increase among the population. As fear and scarcity increase in areas with insufficient law and order resources, criminality and violence will follow.
      29. There are many other climate change consequences that will be dramatically worsening in frequency, severity, and scale during this period. Click here for the master list of all of the primary and secondary consequences of climate change.

The Thwaites glacier in Antarctica is a critical global climate tipping point for irreversible sea level rise to watch over the next decade. It is often called the Doomsday Glacier. When the Thwaites glacier slides into the ocean, we have crossed an extinction accelerating catastrophic climate tipping point.

 

 

 

 

 

When Thwaites breaks off, it is your mega-warning sign that the global sea level will rise to fast to adapt to. Pay close attention to any progress updates for the Thwaites collapse. 

Current research says that the Thwaites Glacier will continue melting over the next few decades, steadily increasing sea levels. Still, the Thwaites Glacier's complete collapse is predicted decades from now. New cracks in the Thwaites Glacier's eastern ice shelf indicate that the ice shelf could collapse within the next five to ten years. This could cause sea levels to rise by several feet, endangering coastal communities worldwide. The growth of the cracks seems to be accelerating. 

We know the news is terrible, but please do not forget the most essential thing after reading our predictions for the next 3-8 years. 

Our governments and politicians have squandered the last 60 years in inaction or ineffective climate change actions. If they had acted effectively, fixing climate change could have been much easier and more gradual. If our governments enforced the now-required fossil fuel reductions and came close to the legitimate and radical 2025 globalfossil fuel reduction targets for their nation, we still can avoid many but not all of the worst consequences listed on this page. 

But we can save about half of humanity if we all work together to compel our governments and politicians to act NOW!

If you have ANY remaining doubts about only having from 2025-2031 to fix climate change before it becomes irreversible and destroys humanity, see this page. (This page covers the detailed science of why climate change will get so much worse (by double or more in many cases) from 2025-2031.)

Click here to see a recent, easy-to-understand YouTube video that validates and explains much of our research and analysis, which we conducted nine years ago. The video is called Climate Doomsday 6 Years From Now, and describes many of the phenomena in this 2025-2036 forecast section with lots of simple illustrations and references to newer scientific studies that validate what Job One forecasted nine years ago.

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(Please see this critical article on the Climageddon Feedback loop scenario, which describes why climate change consequences will soon grow exponentially. This scenario is almost totally excluded in current climate change computer modeling and risk analysis modeling.)

 

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The Climate Change Forecast Part 3, 2032-2070

Section 6: The Forecasted Consequences of Climate Change and Global Heating for the Next 2-5 Decades, 2032-2070

If our governments do not enforce the required fossil fuel reductions and come close to the legitimate 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets for their nation, we will not be able to avoid near-total extinction consequences. Near-total extinction means that about 70 percent to as much as 90 percent plus of humanity (about six to seven billion people) will perish in a climate change-driven great global collapse process described in painful phase-by-phase detail here.

1. 1. Current Earth system computer models (ESMs) project a dramatic slowing (28–42% by 2100) of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Southern Meridional Overturning Circulation (SMOC) across a range of climate scenarios, with a complete shutdown of SMOC possible by the year 2300. These newest predictions for ocean current slowdown are decades ahead of previous climate-related forecasts. Maintaining this critical ocean current at the same pre-climate change speed it has held for thousands of years is essential to humanity's future survival. This current slowdown in the ocean is a massive climate change tipping point; see this article.
   2. If the Thwaites Doomsday glacier collapses early on during the next 2-5 decades, the world will begin to experience sea levels rising another 7-10 feet within decades beyond the initial and rapid 2-3 foot rise after the Thwaites glacier's initial collapse.) 
   3. The Biden-era US fossil fuel reductions were based on grossly inadequate fossil fuel reduction calculations that provided the uninformed a temporary false hope but eventually an extremely painful and harsh dose of climate reality. Unless the US government adopts the correct 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets and immediately leads the rest of the world to enforce these targets, unavoidably, half of humanity will be dead by mid-century! This is highly likely to happen, especially under the new US presidential administration.
   4. If the world's governments significantly miss the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, near-total human extinction will occur within the next 50 to 70 years or less. Because humanity will be unable to recover from or adapt to the accelerating frequency, severity, and scale of worsening climate change-related consequences, humanity faces the painful road of escalating economic, political, and social chaos and collapse long before its final members pass away. Violent criminal gangs will begin to fill the void where law and order as broken down.
   5. As accelerating climate consequences create many more deaths globally, reaching mass extinction levels, humanity will eventually suffer another high-risk consequence at some point. Human genetic diversity is also radically reduced as the global population is radically reduced. Having a high level of human genetic diversity (including many genetic mutations) helps safeguard humanity against new pandemics, killing off all, most, or the rest of humanity.
   6. As climate conditions worsen to unsurvivable suffering levels, climate change-related suicides will climb steadily in all areas where any solution or release from accelerating climate consequences appears hopeless.
   7. Because of increasing public demand and outrage, courts worldwide will finally begin convicting and severely punishing individuals, corporations, and even governments of acts of commission or omission that directly or indirectly caused, contributed to, or enabled the ongoing climate change-related human and biological extinction. These eco-felonies will be labeled as genocidal-enabling crimes against humanity and the future.
   8. There are many other climate change consequences that will be exponentially worsening in frequency, severity, and scale during this period. Click here for the master list of all of the primary and secondary consequences of climate change.

 

Critical reading and documentation for our predictions for the next 2-5 decades:

To save much of humanity, here is how we must compel our governments to act.

Click here to see why human extinction should end at near-total levels but should not go to total extinction.

Click here for a step-by-step, detailed explanation of the processes of near-total extinction.

Click here for the four extinction-triggering climate tipping points. 

Click here to see the Climageddon Feedbck Scenario, which describes in painful detail the meltdown of climate change tipping points, feedback loops, and nonlinear reactions that are already occurring and will only worsen.

For additional information on climate change-driven mass extinction and global collapse processes, please see our three-part series of articles relating to the Club of Rome/MIT study (and four related verification studies), including our updating of them with recent climate change information. See the first article here. It will take you to the other articles.

And finally, if you are concerned about what you can do about the climate change emergency to protect yourself, click here.

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The following is already happening 

The arrows in the illustration below indicate how climate change tipping points and feedback loops interact and feed into each other. As more tipping points are crossed and feedback loops interact, they will multiply and amplify each other's effects. This will cause climate change consequences to worsen exponentially and far beyond what people are expecting or prepared for.

 

Section 7: Conclusion

Until our governments dare to tell their citizens that we have to go through a painful period of enormous individual and collective sacrifice to get close to the 2005 global fossil fuel reduction targets, and they enforce laws to ensure we do, we are doomed to ever-increasing worldwide suffering and death because of the immutable laws of climate physics and climate math.

Maybe a 1/2 trillion dollar single incident climate mega-disaster will finally get the world's governments serious about cutting global fossil fuels usage to, at least, get close to the 2025 global targets.

The 800-pound gorilla in the room, and the big problem today is we are not listening to the ever-louder and more costly destructive feedback that Mother Nature is giving us during this accelerating climate change emergency. Therefore, Mother Nature will do as she has always done. She will turn up her destructive climate consequence feedback to even higher, more painful levels and hopefully get our attention before it is too late. 

Mother Nature can be fully trusted to continue to act as she has for the last 10,000 years of human evolution. She will continue to favor the wise, the well-informed, the best prepared, and the most cooperative. And she will punish everyone who does not listen to her repeated and rapidly intensifying climate change consequence feedback.

 

 

Part 4: How to protect yourself from climate change consequences and losses and article documentation

 

What you need to do to protect yourself, your family, and your business

Here is how you can prepare, adapt, survive, and help reduce the consequences of climate change, and get the many benefits humanity will reap if we fix the climate heating emergency. There is a lot of bad news in the predictions above, but we can still do many things to slow down this extinction emergency and live longer, more comfortable lives. 

Here are a few of the positive and easy things we can start today:

• Read our uncensored ten-fact summary of the current climate change threat timetables. 
• Sign the online global warming extinction emergency petition by clicking here.
• Start our comprehensive four-part Job One Climate Change and Global Crises Resilience Plan today by clicking here.
• Donate to keep Job One for Humanity, a non-profit climate change think tank speaking uncensored painful truths to power, by clicking here.
• Share these 2025 predictions everywhere and with everyone you think they should be shared, particularly with politicians and their staff.
• Become an activist/volunteer and help us sort out this climate nightmare by clicking here.
• Get super motivated by watching the Netflix movie "Don't Look Up" with many big Hollywood stars. It's not so secretly about climate change extinction and what you have just read.

 

 

 

A friend of Job One recently wrote about how his life changed in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. "Up here in BC this year, we have had record heat for a record time, wildfires, rainfall, and once-in-a-century flooding. Climate change deniers are just not looking at what is right in front of their eyes."

The many benefits that humanity will reap when we fix the climate change emergency

The above 2025 predictions can be disheartening, but many benefits are available if we work together and come close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets. Please take the time to read these benefits to counterbalance all of the problematic news above. Then, go on to the next section that will help you make the needed changes, preparations, and adaptations.

Click here to read about dozens of these worthwhile benefits. This page is the most-read page on our website, with millions of views.

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Section 8: Documentation links for our 2025 prediction materials

a. Click here to discover why our last decade of annual climate change forecasts are significantly more accurate than others.

b. Your government and your media outlets will not cover or will water down the above climate change consequences at the behest of the invisible hand of vested financial interests determined to maintain fossil fuel profits at any cost. If you do not believe this, then click here to see why this is, unfortunately, true.

c. The effects of climate change can be directly attributed to various forms of extreme weather and conditions. Click here to learn more about the organization doing this work.

Reference Topic 1: We have been given far lower incorrect global fossil fuel reduction targets by fossil fuel-compromised "trusted" authorities. Learn why you can't believe the so-called world's leading authority on climate change (the UN IPCC) for legitimate global fossil fuel reduction targets or their consequence predictions and timetables:

Click here to understand the long-term history of the IPCC underestimating the consequences, timeframes, and the needed global fossil fuel reduction targets by as much as 20-40% or more.

Click here to see precisely how the IPCC "cooked the books" and grossly skewed the current IPCC global fossil fuel reduction calculations by including unproven and non-existent "carbon-sucking unicorn" technology into their projections. 

Click here to see the eleven key climate change tipping points that have been mostly excluded from the IPCC calculations on how much fossil fuel use we must reduce each year globally. 

Click here to see the four key reasons why the IPCC's 26 global climate conferences have failed to produce results or legitimate global fossil fuel reduction targets.

Click here to see the REAL 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets and why we must get close to a 75% reduction in total global fossil fuel use (oil, natural gas, coal, etc.) by 2025, not the far, far less net-zero emission levels they have pledged by 2050 or 2040! (In the technical notes at the bottom of the 2025 fossil fuel reduction specification page, you will see each calculation and compensation for the various factors that make up the required correct global fossil fuel reduction numbers.)

To see the many mass mobilization actions our governments must now take to get close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets and save humanity from near-total extinction, click here.

Reference Topic 2: How can the probability (or even the possibility) of a soon-arriving near-total human extinction be accurate? 

Click here to see a detailed "big picture" catastrophic meltdown of our global warming consequences and tipping points. Their interactions with our other 11 major global crises will produce starvation and extinction for much of humanity by mid-century and near-total extinction beginning as soon as 2070.

Click here to see the four major global warming extinction-evoking tipping points and how close we are to crossing them. The first tipping point of carbon 425-450 ppm will explain precisely why climate change consequences will start growing exponentially in about 3-9 years.

Reference Topic 3: What governments must do to save the future

It is time to call for global warming legal accountability, the immediate termination of all global fossil fuel subsidies, and placing a worldwide price for all corporations on their carbon, methane, and other greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. 

Click here to learn more about the Fee and Dividend carbon pricing and other critical actions our governments and corporations must immediately take to reach the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets.

Reference Topic 4: The deep causes of this whole climate catastrophe mess

To understand the most profound reasons behind our current global warming emergency and our 11 other most dangerous global crises, please get the book Overshoot. In it, you can learn about the concept of the Earth's carrying capacity (the land and sea acreage available and needed for any given population's critical survival needs.) 

Click here for global warming migration information and information on safer global warming areas.

Reference Topic 5: Miscellaneous 

Click here and read our Job One for Humanity policy on the necessary disruption of all false or dangerous climate, global warming, and environmental acts or ideas.

Please continue to educate yourself about these life-critical climate issues by exploring the documentation and analysis found on this website.

Important additional climate change information:

If our governments had enforced fossil fuel reductions needed to avoid major climate disasters, we would not face the consequences that now confront us. 

If we come close to meeting the legitimate and radical 2025 global targets for the world's nations, we may still avoid many but not all of the worst consequences listed below. 

And, if we all work together to compel our governments and politicians to act  NOW!, we can still save much of humanity from great suffering, financial loss, and mass extinction.

For answers to all of your remaining questions about climate change and global warming, click here for our new climate change FAQ. It has over one hundred of the most asked questions and answers about climate change.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to our board of advisers and our volunteer staff for the creation of this annual update of our climate change predictions. Additional thanks to Peter Carter for his input on the KPMG verification study and thanks to Bruce Nappi, who has provided much of the information regarding the original Club of Rome MIT study and subsequent related studies or updates.

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