Researchers have warned about the impact of ‘climate tipping points’ on the UK due to its position near the North Atlantic, as such an event could ‘wipe out’ domestic crop growing.

An assessment of climate threats to UK food security has put a spotlight on climate tipping points as a ‘severely overlooked danger’, a new report published today warns.

Researchers from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) and others point to the fact that climate change is already playing a significant role in several threats to UK national security, including food supply.

But they warn that the government has a ‘blind spot’, as major climate threats are not adequately addressed in its national risk register, while some threats – like climate tipping points – are not included at all…

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      1 month ago

      They’re not in power anymore, so thankfully not

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        I am talking about the British government, the aingle incestuous ruling class austerity-and-genocide machine that pretends to have multiple parties. Tories openly make things worse, Labour quietly makes things worse while making tissue-thin excuses to keep Tory policies, hospitals collapse and waterways fill with shit as the cycle goes round.

        I’m not trying to be snarky when I say that genuinely, you guys live in a dictatorship of rich ghoul freaks, and the sooner you all stop taking them and the absurdly corrupt British media at their word, the sooner you can stop playing their rigged game.

        Like…They’re just letting all the schools fall down, how many "just one more election"s are people supposed to put up with that shit?