Is The Earth Warming Faster Than We Thought? | Ep276: Peter Cox
Cleaning Up Podcast
6,347 views
This week on Cleaning Up, Bryony Worthington is joined by Peter Cox, Professor of Climate System Dynamics at the University of Exeter and Director of the Global Systems Institute. A former lead author of the IPCC climate reports, Peter has spent decades studying the complex feedbacks between the climate, carbon cycle and natural world.
They delve into some of the biggest questions in climate science today: Is the planet warming faster than we thought? What is the role of forcing versus feedback? How much of the recent change is being driven by external forces, including the decline of reflective sulphur pollution, and how much is the climate system responding in ways that amplify warming?
They explore why the Earth is reflecting less sunlight back into space, the growing Earth energy imbalance, climate sensitivity, tipping points in the Amazon and Arctic, and whether solar radiation modification should remain taboo.
Topics discussed in this episode:
• Why the Earth is darkening
• Is global warming accelerating?
• The Earth’s energy imbalance
• Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
• Amazon and Arctic tipping points
• The hidden cooling from pollution
• Geoengineering the planet
• Positive clean energy tipping points
Leadership Circle
Cleaning Up is proud to be supported by its Leadership Circle. The members are Actis, Alcazar Energy, Arup, Climate Imperative Foundation, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Cygnum Capital, Davidson Kempner, EcoPragma Capital, EDP, Eurelectric, KKR, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, National Grid, Octopus Energy, Quadrature Climate Foundation, Schneider Electric, SDCL and Wärtsilä. For more information on the Leadership Circle, please visit cleaningup.live.
Links
• Professor Peter Cox’s bio: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/962-pete...
• Professor Cox’s publications: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/962-pete...
• Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cleaninguppod.substack.com
Acronyms
• IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• CMIP6: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6
• CERES: Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
• ARIA: Advanced Research and Invention Agency
• SO2: Sulphur Dioxide
• RCP8.5: Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5
• SSP5-85: Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 5 - Radiative Forcing 8.5
• IAM: Integrated Assessment Model
• AMOC: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
• PV: Photovoltaics
• SRM: Solar Radiation Modification
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Professor Peter Cox
03:40 Climate System Modelling
07:36 Climate Tipping Points
17:04 Accelerating Global Warming
18:57 Earth’s Energy Imbalance
22:13 The Darkening Planet
37:59 Rethinking Climate Scenarios
45:59 Positive Tipping Points
52:24 Geoengineering The Planet
01:05:14 Outro
20 Comments
Great info, thanks
New Scientist sep 2026
if the world reaches net-zero emissions and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations fall, the ocean will start releasing CO2 into the air.
This massive release of carbon will prolong global warming for centuries, even if humanity artificially removes gigantic amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere
https://youtu.be/gSjvyrYihRQ?si=p0wlk_QOYDj24KRG
Bryony you've got to stop harping on hope. It it's what it is. We have broken through the 1C threshold for modern life on the planet 1C.
We're already at 1.5C & it will go past 2C. At 1.5C we're we're at now collapse is clearly inevitable... Food & water supply collapse, resource wars etc.
This is not about Hope this is about acceptance & grieving.
Grieving & accepting and moving on as best you can with a wholesome life. These things are inevitable we have passed the threshold and it's coming. We're way past the 1C threshold.
Billions are going to die. And in a relatively short period of time because of the acceleration of the warmth.
Dr. Jem Bendell: What if it’s too late?
The Seeds Will Grow, Finn Harries
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vU7WQmM4lQA&si=MoxkW7yyH3h3E_ea
Climate Crisis: A Revised Prediction - Steven Chu
"It will be 3C"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A4LE-SGLAMU&si=-auNowPlemV2vJ7L
Aviation aerosols may have a bigger impact than we realize.
But Johan just won't say out loud he won't warn people that it's basically too late for billions of people we're in a mass extinction event
Has the world lost the fight against heat? - The Climate Question podcast bbc
Hansen 1C dangerous threshold
Johann Rockstum 1.5C threshold
climate boundaries
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2HUor5EOFeI&si=t50ySSBHaboGOTrQ
Maybe they (Elizaveta Khromova geologist and others scientists) right maybe not
I don't know 😮
Actually the earth is heating up at an exponential rate because of all the positive feedbacks with very negative outcomes.
Liver, kidneys and pancreas are the three vital organs which are implemented for organ function. Other organs simply run their process and complete the circuit for optimal function within the format of the torso. The three vital organs keep these optimal organs in checks and balances. Basically these three are the maintenance of vitality within the corporeal framework.
Global warming and mental health are the components for what we currently experience as disastrous failure. Failure of society to capacitate towards a civilized state.
As the blood heats the brain responds however with the external forces of climate change or global warming the response time is negatively impacted.
This simply boils down to mind control.
Simply put; do you believe you have the capacity to remain in control of your senses while global warming proceeds?
Yes. Or no.
Probably not and assuredly so are inexcusable as a response.
So.
It is getting oddly hotter.
Am I talking funny now that.
Is The Earth Warming Faster Than We Thought? | Ep276: Peter Cox
Cleaning Up Podcast
6,347 views
This week on Cleaning Up, Bryony Worthington is joined by Peter Cox, Professor of Climate System Dynamics at the University of Exeter and Director of the Global Systems Institute. A former lead author of the IPCC climate reports, Peter has spent decades studying the complex feedbacks between the climate, carbon cycle and natural world.
They delve into some of the biggest questions in climate science today: Is the planet warming faster than we thought? What is the role of forcing versus feedback? How much of the recent change is being driven by external forces, including the decline of reflective sulphur pollution, and how much is the climate system responding in ways that amplify warming?
They explore why the Earth is reflecting less sunlight back into space, the growing Earth energy imbalance, climate sensitivity, tipping points in the Amazon and Arctic, and whether solar radiation modification should remain taboo.
Topics discussed in this episode:
• Why the Earth is darkening
• Is global warming accelerating?
• The Earth’s energy imbalance
• Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
• Amazon and Arctic tipping points
• The hidden cooling from pollution
• Geoengineering the planet
• Positive clean energy tipping points
Leadership Circle
Cleaning Up is proud to be supported by its Leadership Circle. The members are Actis, Alcazar Energy, Arup, Climate Imperative Foundation, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, Cygnum Capital, Davidson Kempner, EcoPragma Capital, EDP, Eurelectric, KKR, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, National Grid, Octopus Energy, Quadrature Climate Foundation, Schneider Electric, SDCL and Wärtsilä. For more information on the Leadership Circle, please visit cleaningup.live.
Links
• Professor Peter Cox’s bio: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/962-pete...
• Professor Cox’s publications: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/962-pete...
• Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cleaninguppod.substack.com
Acronyms
• IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• CMIP6: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6
• CERES: Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
• ARIA: Advanced Research and Invention Agency
• SO2: Sulphur Dioxide
• RCP8.5: Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5
• SSP5-85: Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 5 - Radiative Forcing 8.5
• IAM: Integrated Assessment Model
• AMOC: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
• PV: Photovoltaics
• SRM: Solar Radiation Modification
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:08 Professor Peter Cox
03:40 Climate System Modelling
07:36 Climate Tipping Points
17:04 Accelerating Global Warming
18:57 Earth’s Energy Imbalance
22:13 The Darkening Planet
37:59 Rethinking Climate Scenarios
45:59 Positive Tipping Points
52:24 Geoengineering The Planet
01:05:14 Outro