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 and feedbacks 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