Category: tipping points

Climate tipping points are nearer than you think – our new report warns of catastrophic risk

climate change / tipping points

James Dyke, University of Exeter and David Armstrong McKay, Stockholm University It’s now almost inevitable that 2023 will be the warmest year ever recorded by humans, probably the warmest for at least 125,000 years. Multiple temperature records were smashed with global average temperatures for some periods well above 1.5°C. Antarctic …

Earth resilience and tipping dynamics in the Anthropocene

resilience / tipping points

For the past few years, I along with some lovely folk at the Stockholm Resilience Institute, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, have organised a session at the annual European Geophysical Union Conference in Vienna. Last time I took the very splendid sleeper train that gets into Vienna …

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