The Great Global Heating Emergency & The Climate Interventions to Avert It

[Garrity, Dennis]

Dear Colleagues, 

Here is the link to a keynote address that I was invited to present at the Philippines National Workshop on Shaping Responsible Governance for Emerging Climate Interventions that was convened on April 14th, 2026. 

My topic was: The Great Global Heating Emergency & The Climate Interventions to Avert It

Video Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qucTOZ5alp6n80R7RQ61cMrZiwTK-TvA/view?usp=sharing

(The occasion gave me the opportunity to wear my Barong Tagong.)

[Worms, Patrick]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10456-0

Without accounting for deforestation, we find a critical global warming threshold of 3.7–4.0 °C, beyond which up to a third of the Amazon forest risks losing stability. However, when considering deforestation, we find a near system-wide transition of the Amazon forest (62−77% of the area) under the combination of a lower threshold range of global warming of 1.5–1.9 °C and deforestation of 22–28%. 

Patrick Worms

Senior Science Policy Advisor, CIFOR-ICRAF

 

Ex-Officio Trustee, IUAF - the International Union of Agroforestry

Senior Fellow, EURAF – the European Agroforestry Federation

Trustee, Savanna Institute

Senior Fellow, EGA – the Evergreening Global Alliance

Steering Committee Member, ILLP - Initiatives for Land, Lives and Peace

Advisor, GALILEO Africa EU Project

Advisor, AFAktive LIFE EU Project 

Advisor, ERC - Ecosystem Restoration Camps

Executive Committee, IPC - International Poplar Commission, FAO

CEO, Earthsystemics SRL

 

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[rob...@rtulip.net]

Hi Dennis and all

 

Your talk is the most brilliant exposition of the urgent need to test stratospheric aerosol injection that I have seen.

 

I encourage everyone to watch your presentation and share it widely to people who do not understand climate change.  Your message of the primacy of albedo restoration – rebrightening the Earth - is simple and clear and compelling.  There is no moral or factual basis to ignore this scientific paradigm shift.

 

Your credibility as leader of the World Agroforestry Union and the Evergreening Alliance, as well as chair of the Healthy Planet Action Coalition, should encourage people with links to the mainstream media and other key influencers to study the simple analysis you present in order to shift the terms of the public debate on climate policy.

 

Sadly, the IPCC has lost all credibility, due to its capture by various interest groups, and is allowing headlong descent into collapse.

 

I hope the Government of the Philippines will help to convene a Coalition of First Mover Nations to govern the rebrightening of the Earth.  Your observation of the potential benefits of targeted Marine Cloud Brightening to mitigate typhoon intensity should be enough to get the Philippines involved at official level.  And as you say, SAI should be the primary global focus.

 

Other national governments who should join this coalition in the first instance include India, Iceland, Switzerland, Canada and the UK.

 

Again, I encourage everyone to watch and share and discuss your presentation.  It is extremely well done and has potential to enable the social tipping point we need for climate stability.

 

Regards

 

Robert Tulip

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