
Two Degrees Too Many: Average Global Temperature Increase Will Trigger Climate Tipping Points
A recent study expands upon previously established tipping points, naming 16 total tipping points and their respective temperature triggers.
A recent study expands upon previously established tipping points, naming 16 total tipping points and their respective temperature triggers.
Will overshooting 1.5°C of warming push us over climate tipping points, triggering irreversible and abrupt changes?
Climate scientist Radley Horton tackles questions about climate tipping points, and how we can tip the scales in a safer direction.
The massive ice sheet is now locked into a certain amount of decline. But reducing emissions remains critical to preventing catastrophic loss of the entire ice sheet.
The Trump administration is attempting to rescind almost all the policies to fight climate change proposed or enacted by the Obama administration. Could this send us over the climate tipping points?
Last week I expressed some skepticism that art and climate science were complementary languages. I also expressed some hope that the nature of these two fields – that is, that they both are ways of better knowing the world – really were reconcilable, and could create a better robustness of understanding the natural world. I’m glad… read more