Tipping Points for the Planet

Tipping points in the climate system - Wikipedia

A tipping point is a critical threshold that, when crossed, leads to large, accelerating and often irreversible changes in the climate system.

How Close Are the Planet's Climate Tipping Points?

Earth's warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse.

ESA - Understanding climate tipping points - European Space Agency

Climate tipping points are elements of the Earth system in which small changes can kick off reinforcing loops that 'tip' a system from one stable state into a ...

What you need to know about tipping points | Stories | WWF

Some environmental systems are currently undergoing profound upheavals due to global warming, pollution, and the over-exploitation of ...

Climate Tipping Points Are Closer Than Once Thought - NRDC

Climate Tipping Points Are Closer Than Once Thought. Exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming could trigger several and lead to ...

Study: As global temperatures rise, climate 'tipping points' loom

Earth is teetering perilously close to climate “tipping points.” Now, scientists have found that every fraction of a degree of warming ...

1: Earth System Tipping Points

Tipping points exist across the Earth system – the interconnected systems that support life on this planet, including the cryosphere (ice-bound domains), ...

Tipping Points for the Planet - The New York Times

The planet may be approaching some of the so-called tipping points that could trigger severe and irreversible changes.

Climate Tipping Points - UCAR Center for Science Education

The loss of ice sheets in the cryosphere, or frozen parts of the planet, is a significant tipping point: if enough ice is lost, the result will change Earth's ...

Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists ...

Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn. Humanity faces 'devastating domino effects' including mass displacement and ...

Explainer: The Tipping Points of Climate Change - Earth.Org

Permafrost, coral reefs, and monsoons are some of the tipping points of climate change that the world is set to reach if warming persists.

Q&A: Climate tipping points have put Earth on 'disastrous trajectory ...

However, the Earth system tipping points do not act in isolation. The authors find that crossing some tipping points, such as the dieback of ...

The 7 climate tipping points that could change the world forever - Grist

An international team of scientists warned about the possibility of a number of Earth systems approaching tipping points that could lead to uncontrolled ...

Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate ...

Climate tipping points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-perpetuating beyond a warming threshold, leading to ...

11 looming climate tipping points that imperil our planet - The Week

11 looming climate tipping points that imperil our planet · Mountain glaciers melting: · Ice sheets collapsing: · Accelerating extinctions: · Dying coral reefs: ...

Current Decade 'Critical' to Avoid Breaching Climate Tipping Points

Previous studies showed that all four tipping points are already within reach; a February 2024 study also suggested that the AMOC is “on route” ...

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact

The effects of tipping points will be transmitted and amplified throughout our globalised world. To mitigate these risks, we should focus on positive tipping ...

There Is No Climate Tipping Point | The Breakthrough Institute

The current literature shows “no evidence of abrupt change in climate projections of global temperature for the next century” and expressed “low confidence”

Earth on 'devastating trajectory' to global tipping points. But there's ...

A new report suggests that the rapid acceleration of climate change has pushed the Earth systems humanity relies upon to the brink of collapse.

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system - PNAS

Here we introduce the term “tipping element” to describe large-scale components of the Earth system that may pass a tipping point.