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Don't Worry, Tipping Points  Give Lots of Warnings ....Oh, wait...  "Tipping points" always makes me think of avalanches.  Science shows there are many other cornices just waiting for their "points" to tip.                                        Ocean Heating      Ice Sheet Drop    Permafrost Melting                                   CO 2 level    Sea Level Rise     Warming Acceleration    Methane Level You know, kids, we have a great life! Scientific American* published a short piece on October 14, 2026: “Earth’s ‘life support systems’ are breaking down…” “Earth’s life-support systems are being pushed beyond stable limits, with changes unfolding faster than our ability to respond.” The underlying paper is the 2026 update of the ...

  A Proper Response to Our Giant Wildfires GIANT TANKERS! In my STBP* sci-fi sequel to Lucas 2.0 (My SO predictive 2020 superintelligence novel), I needed to extinguish a really big, mean New Mexico wildfire.  Nice thing about fiction... just extrapolate!   Since the date is 2035 in the story, these big boys seem entirely likely as the regular fire fighting air tankers.  They are real planes, of course, thus only "slightly" sci-fi. The Text A thousand meters ahead of them two giant planes emerged from the smoke plume and swept toward the fire fronts, one tracking up a mountain, one going along a ridge. The first was a Ukrainian Antonov An-225 Mriya, back in production as the reigning aerial firefighter; the second was an Airbus stretch A-380 Superjumbo Fire Master. We can carry a LOT of retardant In the new book there are many, many predictions about the world of 2035, five years after one AI suddenly shot ahead of all the rest, becoming a genuine superintelli...