When taking the heating of the entire climate system into account, the planet has warmed at a rate equivalent to 4 Hiroshima atomic bomb detonations per second over the past 15 years. (skepticalscience.com)
A climate «tipping point» occurs when a small change triggers a cascading set of catastrophes that upsets the entire climate system for a long time. Examples? (astrobio.net)
Losing ice, reducing the poleward temperature gradient, and warming the entire climate system should contribute to increasing the likelihood of anomalous storms. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)