Climate Tipping Points, getting closer?
Tipping points. A seemingly popular topic, and still many assume that they are unlikely. Yet evidence that shows the pressing nature of tipping points is mounting.
Timeline:
00:00 Tipping points
00:58 9 global tipping points
01:42 Amazon 2024 warning
02:27 AMOC
03:02 Coral
03:28 Synergy
04:04 Conclusion
Main sources:
1) Mckay et al 2022: Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
2) Lenton et al 2008: Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073...
3) Carbon Brief: Unprecedented’ stress in up to half of the Amazon may lead to tipping point by 2050
https://www.carbonbrief.org/unprecede...
4) Flores et al 2024: Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
5) Van Westen et al 2024: Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
6) Lenton: • Climate Tipping Points by Tim Lenton
7) Deplazes et al 2014: Weakening and strengthening of the Indian monsoon during Heinrich events and Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
8) Ritchie et al 2020: Shifts in national land use and food production in
Great Britain after a climate tipping point
http://www.fraw.org.uk/data/limits/ri...
9) Lenton et al 2019: Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
10) Cesar et al 2018: Observed fingerprint of a weakening Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
11) https://www.climateforesight.eu/artic...
12) • The AMOC Tipping Point (And what we need t...
13) • Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation approach...
14) IPCC SR15
15) IPCC: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploa...
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