Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This year‑end episode of Climate Emergency Forum brings together host Herb Simmens and climate system scientist Paul Beckwith to look back at the biggest climate stories of 2025 and the highlights from over 250 CEF programs. They discuss five major global themes—from record‑high global temperatures hovering around 1.5 °C, to the “big shrug” from political leaders, the rise of land and ecosystems as net carbon sources, and another year of escalating climate disasters around the world.

This video was recorded on December 17th, 2025, and published on December 30th, 2025, and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.

Paul then turns the spotlight on the people and ideas that shaped the channel this year: popular CEF videos on polar vortex collapses, methane and Arctic risks, and interviews with “Giants of Climate” such as Peter Wadhams, Sir David King, James Hansen, and Jennifer Francis. The episode closes with a rapid news roundup.

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- Support Our Mission
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- Planetary Boundaries: Navigating Our Limits (CEF Video)
youtu.be/tG-hh-gSKFQ

- Water Restoration - Reduction of Aquatic Methane (RAM) (CEF Video)
youtu.be/AdN6xgiljVI

- Microbes - Climate's Tiny Titans (CEF Video)
youtu.be/QofeVqHdQmw

- Devastation in Pakistan - Inside the Monsoon Floods (CEF Video)
youtu.be/0dOWkTwAzBo

- Polar Vortex Collapse (CEF Video)
youtu.be/2G9IviBUgBo

- Red Alert: Planet in Peril (CEF Video)
youtu.be/XGYD8t5sG70

- Polar Peril and the Methane Time Bomb (CEF Video)
youtu.be/uS0V31i_BhY

- Dr. James E. Hansen in Conversation with Paul Beckwith (CEF Video)
youtu.be/WTWUJ8Lvl-U

- A Polar Ice Scientist: Peter Wadhams' Journey (CEF Video)
youtu.be/Kd3RTm4yk2E

- A Climate Advisor: Sir David King’s Journey (CEF Video)
youtu.be/7v27jryUknI

- Dr. Hansen's Climate Warning: It's Worse Than We Thought (CEF Video)
youtu.be/zVw6gIP7JUw

- Weather Whiplashing and Jetstream Waviness (CEF Video)
youtube.com/watch?v=RS_0GNk_CfE&t=705s

- Marine Cloud Brightening - Tribute to Stephen Salter (CEF Video)
youtube.com/watch?v=clYtK2tuCmU&t=1985s

- Climate Engineering and the Napkin Diagram (CEF Video)
youtu.be/wHeLjVNWGIY

- Farming Food for Life (CEF Video)
youtu.be/kIk_2dhekfk

- Katharine Hayhoe in Conversation with Paul Beckwith (CEF Video)
youtu.be/msgxHtoKYWY

- Elizabeth May in Conversation with Paul Beckwith - At COP15 in Montréal (CEF Video)
youtu.be/VSovd9_vMhw

- Climate Education - At COP27 (CEF Video)
youtu.be/A6GXA4UL_8I

- A New Climate Vocabulary (CEF Video)
youtube.com/watch?v=HFDo3rQlonw&t=92s

- Vita Sapien - Update 2023 (CEF Video)
youtu.be/Hbw6ysnFlGk

- Climate Restoration Roadmap 2024 (CEF Video)
youtu.be/LE2QuuvR7Lo

- COP30: COP30: Climate Hope Through Plankton Power (CEF Video)
youtu.be/HsY1MLIOmMU

- Beyond Carbon: Healthy Oceans and Forests Could Be Key to Climate (CEF Video)
youtu.be/PW9qYpm2xaE

- AMOC Amok (CEF Video)
youtu.be/ROEYhC7t33c

- Can We Restore the Biosphere? (CEF Video)
youtu.be/L4iGzYnHb70

- India's Cooling Challenge (CEF Video)
youtu.be/p369fSl2wtk

- Forest Power: Cooling the Planet Naturally (CEF Video)
youtu.be/Co7eigqN2d8?si=5OhIczXcKdJGuDDT

- In Defence of the Biotic Pump
journals.bilpubgroup.com/index.php/jasr/article/view/9887

- Trump administration moves to break up leading U.S. climate and weather center
science.org/content/article/trump-administration-moves-break-leading-u-s-climate-and-weather-center

- No water, no life': Iraq's Tigris River in danger of disappearing
theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/16/no-water-no-life-iraqs-tigris-river-in-danger-of-disappearing

Regular Panelists:
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa's Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

Herb Simmens - Author, Co-founder of the Healthy Planet Action Coalition (HPAC), Climate Emergency Board Member and former college instructor.

Video Production:
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader

Heidi Brault - Video production and website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP team lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum; BA (Psychology); Climate Reality Leader

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Attributions:
Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
- Source: crowander.com

Image and Video: climateemergencyforum.org/assets/attributions/2025/2025-12-30-climate-emergency-2025-year-in-review.html