WMO Weather Forecast For 2050 Comes True 25 Years Early

In 2015, the World Meteorological Organization created a fictional weather forecast for Europe in August of 2025. It was supposed to get people to sit up and take notice. The hope was they would say, “Wow! This is serious! We must take action now before it is too late!” But alas, the WMO message about future weather emergencies got buried under an avalanche of climate disinformation spewing forth from the Faux Comedy Channel and amplified by the likes of Fakebook, Goggle, YewTube, and dozens of other antisocial media sites populated by science denying trolls. As a result. that mythical forecast for 2050 has now come true — 25 years early!

If you put a weather map of Europe today next to that fictional weather map from 2015, the two appear to be nearly identical. In fact, many actual temperatures in Europe last week were actually hotter than the WMO projected in 2015.

Climate website We Don’t Have Time makes this passionate plea: “Spain has just shattered its all-time June temperature record, with 40+°C heat gripping vast parts of the continent — from Lisbon to Lyon, from Rome to Budapest. Yet still, major headlines describe this as  the ‘new normal.’ But this is not normal. It is not stable. And it is not something we can simply adapt to. This is the beginning of collapse — unfolding in real time.” (Emphasis added.)

“The situation is urgent. We are living the warnings of 2050 already—here in 2025. And new data shows global warming is not just continuing, it’s accelerating. People need to know this. Leaders need to feel it. And the media has a choice to make: either normalize the crisis with headlines like ‘the new normal,’ or tell the truth with the clarity this moment demands. Because awareness drives action, and without it, we risk sleepwalking into disaster.”

We Will Not Promote Lies About Weather & Climate

At CleanTechnica, we choose not to promote the “new normal” lie about the weather. We will continue to shout about the climate emergency from the rooftops so people stop believing the deliberate misinformation issuing from the mouths of people like Chris Wright, the craven secretary of energy for the US, who wants even more fossil fuels to be burned to fatten his own wallet and those of his billionaire friends.

We need to stand up to the failed president and his toadies in Congress. They aren’t worried about you; they are protecting their own self interest and looting the country for their personal gain. We wrote recently about a report by the Special Rapporteur for climate at the United Nations who proposes laws that make deliberately spreading climate and weather disinformation a criminal offense. Elisa Morgera, the special rapporteur, said:

“The present report clarifies States’ international human rights obligations and businesses’ responsibilities to phase out fossil fuels and related subsidies within the current decade. The interlinked, inter-generational, severe, and widespread human rights impacts of the fossil fuel life cycle, coupled with six decades of climate obstruction, compel urgent defossilization of our whole economies, for a just transition that is effective, human rights based and transformative in protecting the climate, nature, water and food on which life and health for present and future generations depend.”

The Global Tipping Points Conference

At the Global Tipping Points Conference in Glasgow last week, 200 climate scientists gathered to urge immediate climate action. Their report placed the issue of hotter weather and an overheating planet in the starkest terms. And yet, have any of you read about the conference? Probably not, as the news is overloaded with stories about two megalomaniacs — Elon Musk and the failed president of the United States. So let us help you out. Here is the report in its entirety:

Global warming is projected to exceed 1.5°C within a few years, placing humanity in the danger zone where multiple climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people. Already tropical coral reefs have crossed their tipping point and are experiencing unprecedented dieback, impairing the livelihoods of hundreds of millions who depend on them. Current warming has activated these irreversible changes and every fraction of additional warming dramatically increases the risk of triggering further damaging tipping points.

These include a collapse of deep water formation in the Labrador-Irminger Seas triggering abrupt climate changes that reduce food and water security in northwest Europe and West Africa. Particularly alarming is the risk of collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which would plunge northwest Europe into prolonged severe winters, while radically undermining global food and water security. The Amazon rainforest is also at risk of widespread dieback from the combined effects of climate change and deforestation.

The window for preventing these cascading climate dynamics is rapidly closing, demanding immediate, unprecedented action from policymakers worldwide, and especially from leaders at COP30. This is a human rights and planetary health imperative and ultimately a matter of survival.

Critical to preventing climate tipping points is minimizing both the magnitude and duration of temperature overshoot above 1.5°C. Every year and every fraction of a degree above 1.5°C matters. To minimize overshoot, global greenhouse gas emissions must be halved by 2030 compared to 2010 levels, requiring an unprecedented acceleration in decarbonisation. Only that way can the world reach net zero emissions in time to peak global temperatures well below 2°C and start returning back to, and then below, 1.5°C. This will also require scaling of sustainable carbon removal from the atmosphere.

Current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and binding long-term targets will only limit global warming to around 2.1°C. We therefore call on all nations updating their NDCs for the September 2025 deadline to set targets consistent with minimising overshoot of 1.5°C.

To achieve such targets we join the COP30 Presidency in calling on governments to enact policies that help trigger positive tipping points in their economies and societies, which generate self-propelling change in technologies and behaviours towards zero emissions. We also support the Global Mutirão initiative to catalyse collective action from civil society to help trigger positive tipping points to achieve common climate goals.

To trigger positive tipping points that help eliminate the 75% of greenhouse gas emissions linked to the energy system, and transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner, we call on policymakers to adopt (and enforce) ambitious policy mandates to phase in clean technologies and phase out fossil fuelled ones. These include bans on the future sale of petrol/diesel cars, diesel trucks, and gas boilers. For less mature technologies such as green hydrogen, green ammonia and green steel, we call for increased investment in research, development and deployment.

To trigger positive tipping points that help eliminate the 25% of greenhouse gas emissions linked to food, farming, and deforestation, we call on policymakers to adopt trade policies that catalyse sustainable commodity production and to shift public money from the livestock sector to plant-based proteins. This will also help limit the risk of tipping points in the biosphere – including dieback of the Amazon rainforest – and can liberate land for regenerating nature.

To trigger positive tipping points of nature regeneration that scale up sustainable removal of CO2 from the atmosphere, we call for policy and civil society action to protect indigenous rights, support community-led conservation initiatives, and ensure fair and transparent valuing of nature. This will help achieve the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets to restore 30% of degraded ecosystems and conserve 30% of land, waters and seas. It is essential to limiting overshoot of 1.5°C.

Only with such decisive policy and civil society action can the world tip its trajectory from facing unmanageable climate tipping point risks to seizing positive tipping point opportunities.

Positive tipping points. Now there is an idea we need to learn more about!

Rearranging The Deck Chairs

We Don’t Have Time wrote, “Calling the situation we are in ‘normal’ is like watching the Titanic tilt 30 degrees and assuring everyone, ‘Relax. It’ll stay like this.’ But we’re not stabilizing, we’re sinking. And the greater danger is not just the tilt, but the illusion that it won’t get worse. Because there are no lifeboats for Planet Earth. Not for you. Not for me. And not even for the ultra-rich who believe they can escape. No rocket to Mars will fix a dying Earth. And no luxury bunker will shield a billionaire from the heartbreak of watching the world vanish above them, while they survive alone, entombed in silence, clinging to wealth that can’t buy back life.

“We already have the knowledge. We already have the solutions. What stands in our way is not science—it’s resistance. It’s the lies fueled by fossil interests, the deliberate delays of political systems, and the constant manufacturing of doubt. If we can remove that resistance, we win. We shift direction. We protect what matters. We secure the future for all of us. Because there is no Planet B. There is no second Earth. There is only this one. And it is still, undeniably, worth saving.”

We had a more sustainable world in our grasp but we let it slip away when Americans became obsessed with immigrants and ignored the peril they faced to elect lunatics to positions of power. We have one chance left — to throw the bums out during the next election in 18 months. If we do that, there is a chance, albeit a slim one. If not…