Climate Tipping Points

According to a recent study, the climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple disastrous tipping points. Continued greenhouse gas emissions risk triggering climate tipping points.

Climate Tipping Points (CTPs) are markers of a larger climate system which when triggered beyond a threshold, perpetuate warming on their own.

Key Highlights

  • Five dangerous tipping points may already have been passed due to the 1.1°C of global heating caused by humanity to date. Four of these five become more likely as global warming exceeds 1.5°C.
  • These include the collapse of Greenland’s ice cap, eventually producing a huge sea level rise, the ....
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