Clarity on Climate Tipping Points and Feedbacks
The first of a new occassional ‘News Explainer’ series, briefly summarising recent news on climate tipping points (and checking how well the media reported it). First up, a paper by Portmann et al. constraining future AMOC decline, but does it show that collapse is more likely than thought?
This autumn, several media articles reported on a study showing the global carbon sink on land – which so far…
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A recent study renewed worries that the ‘AMOC’ – a key set of ocean currents – could soon pass a…
A paper presenting an updated assessment of climate tipping points was published yesterday in the journal Science. Here, the paper’s…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first part of its sixth assessment report (AR6) in August. Much…
The Amazon contains half of the Earth’s remaining rainforest, but is being degraded by deforestation and climate change. It’s possible…
Claim: The lag between CO₂ emissions and warming means ~0.7°C of warming is yet to come, and aerosols are masking…
Claim: Once global warming reaches 2°C (which we’ve nearly reached already, but scientists are downplaying it), positive feedback loops and…
This is the fourth post in a new climatetippingoints.info series fact-checking claims that various climate tipping points have been crossed,…
This is the third post in a new climatetippingoints.info series fact-checking claims that various climate tipping points have been crossed,…
Claim: Global dimming (due to cooling by aerosols, as opposed to warming from greenhouse gases) is masking a large amount…
Claim: A summer ice-free Arctic (called by some the “Blue Ocean Event”) will happen within the next few years and…
In the last year there has been a surge in interest in and news on climate change, inspired in part…
The Climate tipping Points project will be at this September’s Winchester Café Scienitifique – details below: Mon 4th September –…
Back in November we held a public discussion with The Science Room, which as part of their mission to get…
This coming Saturday we’ll be co-hosting a session of The Science Room – a regular meetup in Southampton where scientists…
We’ve just released a quick animated guide to Climate Tipping Points on our YouTube channel – give it a watch…
Tipping points can trigger rapid shifts to a new normal state that can seemingly come from out of the blue.…
~Have you heard that an Arctic Methane Bomb could cause a climate catastrophe? Check out our new Arctic methane Fact-Check…
~Have you heard that Arctic sea ice loss could cause a climate catastrophe? Check out our new Arctic sea ice…
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