Including a positive way to think about tipping points.
Rigor académico, oficio periodístico
Artículos sobre Climate tipping points
Mostrando todos artículos
One positive change can lead to another.
Brazil’s rainforest is a massive carbon store, so its severe drought could be a tipping point for the global climate. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Coral reefs are already being lost, and four other vital climate systems may tip soon.
Rising seas are pushing coastal ecosystems to the limit of endurance. Now international research reveals a “tipping point” will be reached if we allow more than 2 degrees of global warming.
The Pacific Ocean is entering the hot phase of its temperature cycle, an event that will turbo-charge global warming.
We ran computer programs that simulate ecosystems 70,000 times and the results are very worrying.
Temperature rise of more than 1°C pushes us towards irreversible climate tipping points, yet Earth is 1.2°C warmer than in pre-industrial times.
We are on a trajectory that takes Earth across thresholds humans have never experienced, into a climate where Antarctica’s ice shelves can no longer exist, leading to several metres of sea-level rise.
When Buckingham Palace announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September, the news overshadowed reporting of a critical review of climate tipping points, published in Science. Did you miss it?
Calling the Amazon “the lungs of the world” overlooks the forest’s vital role in the water cycle.
A recent paper suggested damaging climate tipping points could be closer than first thought.
New research suggests 75% of the rainforest has become less resilient to stress since the early 2000s.
About 60 per cent of monkeys, apes, lemurs, lorises and tarsiers are threatened with extinction. Climate change will only make it more difficult for them to survive.
Australia must treble its emissions reduction targets and reach net-zero emissions by 2035. Without this and other radical global action, the chance to hold warming to well below 2°C will pass us by.
Principales colaboradores
-
Researcher in Earth System Resilience, University of Exeter
-
Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton
-
Professor of Sustainability, Bangor University
-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social-Ecological Resilience, University of Sheffield
-
Professor of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, University of Leeds
-
PhD Candidate in Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, University of Leeds
-
PhD candidate | Paleoclimate, University of Adelaide
-
Professor in Earth Sciences, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
-
Professor of Solar Economy, Lappeenranta University of Technology
-
Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
-
Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
-
Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
-
Editor and Co-Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
-
Biólogo e pesquisador titular (Departamento de Ecologia), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
-
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), University of Surrey
