Beyond the Threshold: The Urgency of Climate Change

Event Date:

April 17, 2025

"Manifestations of a changed climate continued to be felt increasingly across the world, even as the clean-energy transition continued to gather pace against formidable headwinds" – Doomsday Clock 2025 Climate Change Statement, Science and Security Board.

Each year, new data strengthens our understanding of the planet's rising temperatures and growing environmental instability. With the increase in uncontrollable wildfires, stronger storms, and rising ocean levels, the question remains of whether we are too late to reverse — or significantly slow — our changing climate.

There have been a few bright spots towards reaching targets set in the Paris Agreement, such as increases in sustainable energy generation and climate finance. Still, these advances have not yet slowed consistent record-breaking heat and a continued year-over-year rise of atmospheric carbon — leaving us to question whether there is a ‘tipping point’ — a threshold beyond which climate change is irreversible.

On April 17, join the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to explore the risks of climate change and how to understand what planetary shifts are inevitable — and which are solvable — in this current era of scientific skepticism.

When: Thursday, April 17, 2025 @ 9-9:45 a.m. CT / 10 a.m. ET