The Climate Brink 2025 wrap-up
The biggest stories of 2025 and a few predictions for 2026
Happy New Year to all our readers! In our final post of 2025, Zeke and Andy talk about climate change in 2025 and what to expect in 2026.
Let us know in the comments what you think the biggest climate news in 2025 was and your predictions for 2026.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to all the readers and subscribers of The Climate Brink!
Happy New Year Zeke and Andrew!
Thank you for all your great climate reporting. It'll make 2026 better for me and all.
My take on:
2025:
The year the climate change movement and ESG got stymied by Trump and far right politicians globally.
2026:
Newton's opposite and equal force to the suppression of the climate change movement. There will be a revival in activism, journalism, and governance for mitigating climate change.
That being said, every year we delay the deeper we sink in the quicksand and the harder it will be to get out of it.
Research showed that a rain forest in Australia turned from carbon sink to carbon source around 2000, and an African rain forest changed from sink to source around 2010. I predict that in 2026 climate scientists will begin to realize that this means that it was impossible for IPCC models to accurately predict the recent "unexpected" warming events. Because the models have been treating carbon sources as carbon sinks for a generation now, they must necessarily be underestimating the speed and severity of warming, now and in the future.