What does the new IPCC report say about climate tipping points and feedbacks?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the first part of its sixth assessment report (AR6) in August. Much … More

Smouldering stumps and ground following a rainforest wildfire in Porquinhos Indigenous Territory in Brazil's Maranhão state, in the south-eastern Amazon.

Dieback: how deforestation and climate change could push the Amazon to a tipping point

The Amazon contains half of the Earth’s remaining rainforest, but is being degraded by deforestation and climate change. It’s possible … More

A raging wildfire consumes the forest next to Highway 63 twenty four kilometres south of Fort McMurray Saturday, May 7, 2016. The "Beast", as it was called by Wood Buffalo fire chief Darby Allen, is a 1500 square kilometre inferno that has prompted the mass evacuation of nearly 90,000 people from the northern Alberta city. (photograph by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta)

Fact-Check: do tipping points commit us to rapid catastrophic warming?

This is the third post in a new climatetippingoints.info series fact-checking claims that various climate tipping points have been crossed, … More