Sentences with phrase «of climate tipping points»

Early warning of climate tipping points from critical slowing down: comparing methods to improve robustness

-LSB-...] subject of climate tipping points have been the subject of much debate and confusion.

[iv] Urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points, beyond which climate dynamics will cause rapid changes out of humanity's control.

Just in case you think this is new, review the posts here about the «burning embers» diagram from the 2001 intergovernmental panel report and the realities behind the oversimplified notion of climate tipping points.

If, and this is THE big IF, we have finally passed one of the climate tipping points, then all past statistics are of no value in predicting the new dynamics of ice extent in the arctic.

Here's what he said in my recent analysis of climate tipping points.

This PNAS publication from 2008 also confirms the existence of a climate tipping point for the Amazon rainforest.

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As Andre Leu, the current president of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) noted, «Dec. 1, 2015 will be seen as one of the most important days in history... as the tipping point when the world was saved from catastrophic climate change.»

We could be well past the tipping point of climate change,» he said.

Judge Coffin says the nature, facts and drivers of climate change will be central to the case — including whether there is a threshold at which the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a tipping point locking in irreversible planetary damage.

To avoid multiple climate tipping points, policy makers need to act now to stop global CO2 emissions by 2050 and meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, a new study has said.

Professor Tim Lenton, from the University of Exeter and one of the authors of the study said: «Irreversible tipping points are one of the biggest risks we face if we carry on changing the climate.

Ice - sheet growth, coupled with favorable changes in Earth's orbit, pushed the planet past a climatic tipping point and led to both the rapid buildup of a permanent ice sheet in the Antarctic and much larger changes in global climate, says Hren.

There are six themes: The first one is the natural science part of it — What do we understand about this climate system, tipping points, how bad could this go?

The desertification of the Sahara has long been a target for scientists trying to understand climate and ecological tipping points.

Mathematically, it turns out, the shift from a healthy state to a depressed state resembles other so - called tipping points — moments of critical mass where a system, such as changes to Earth's climate or a social trend — shift rapidly from one state to another.

From studies of changes in temperature and sea level over the last million years, we know that the climate system has tipping points.

Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping points») to force any sort of threshold change.

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?

How do short term climate forcing agents (like methane and black carbon) contribute to the danger of triggering a tipping point in the Gulf Stream System?

I don't mean to imply this is a purely linear process, but we have created a preexisting condition where every element of the climate system is already sensitive to change due to already having been altered before the tipping point that would have triggered it arrives.

«Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Unless a human «tipping point» is reached soon, with implementation of effective policy actions, large irreversible climate changes will become unavoidable.

My research group is in the process of developing a set of experiments using the Climate Impact Lab framework to investigate the consequences of physical «tipping points.»

Jonathan Cohen, cofounder and president of the National School Climate Center, believes that we are at a tipping point on SEL and prosocial educational improvement efforts.

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Curated by David Buckland, Founder and Director of Cape Farewell, Carbon 13 features eight international artists who have ventured alongside scientists to some of the world's geographic tipping points, places profoundly stressed by our warming planet, and whose work aims to stimulate a wider engagement with the climate debate.

Curated by Angela Chan and including artists Joey Holder and Jakob Kudsk Steensen among others, the show contemplates the so - called «tipping point» of climate change and man - made mass species extinction.

Indeed, one of the findings in the recent paper by Overpeck et al. (this weeks Science), is that even as the Greenland ice sheet melts faster than originally expected, it still won't provide sufficient meltwater forcing of the North Atlantic circulation (which is the feature of the climate system most commonly implicated in the discussion of «tipping points») to force any sort of threshold change.

Climate homeostasis has a quite wide stress margin built into it's design but once we go over those tipping points (it's like a few more of those ropes breaking)..

# 5 Martin Pierard, I wouldn't think of a single global tipping point as such, what's important in this respect are the different climate subsystems.

I'll try to maintain the discipline to be «caustically honest» (to steal a phrase used by a climate scientist in a story of mine on tipping points last year) in weighing the issues and opportunities confronting humanity as its astonishing 200 - years - and - counting growth spurt crests.

Early signs of scientific discomfort with some allusions to climate - related tipping points came in a 2006 blog post, «Runaway Tipping Points of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Stipping points came in a 2006 blog post, «Runaway Tipping Points of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Stpoints came in a 2006 blog post, «Runaway Tipping Points of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space STipping Points of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space StPoints of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

We believe that negative synergies between deforestation, climate change, and widespread use of fire indicate a tipping point for the Amazon system to flip to non-forest ecosystems in eastern, southern and central Amazonia at 20 - 25 % deforestation.

Some veteran climate scientists, while eager for cuts in heat - trapping emissions, warn that descriptions of climatic tipping points or thresholds could backfire in the absence of evidence, leading to less public support for action.

But for those of us who follow Hansen, Spratt, Monbiot, and many others in the tail of a much more serious climate change story: non-linear, with positive feedbacks, tipping points, time lags and thresholds, we need a much more robust and focused scientific consensus now, without waiting years for the next IPCC reports, in time to win the crucial 08 election because the solution must be now, global and America must be a leader.

Certaintly there has been lots of discussion in the media and in the scientific literature about the possiblity of climate «tipping points».

They are fascinated by the science, asking questions about the climate history of the Tibetan plateau and the chances of reaching environmental tipping points, as well as questions about western environmental thought and policy.

• Such unprecedented rising temperatures — combined with anticipated rapid industrialization of the developing world — suggests we run a great risk of pushing the climate past a «tipping point» within a lifetime.

This bought - off, pig - headed, chicken - hawk, war mongering administration's legacy could be as the most detrimental bunch of A holes that has ever lived if they have foot - dragged long enough that the climate has reached the tipping points that climatologists fear.

Climate facts to warm to Christopher Pearson March 22, 2008 TheAustralianNews.com «CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return...»

One of the texts that we use is With Speed & Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce.

But this tipping point is ``... of a different kind in the debate on climate change.»

I have read further and found that the term tipping point in the realm of climate science can refer to many things such as ancient ice melting to the point of releasing additional greenhouse gases.

Therefore, for any reasonable person the term «tipping point» is completely inapropriate for back and forth climate transitions, and usage of it does not seem to be professional.

But there is no sign of any «tipping point» in terms of GHG concentrations — any such event would come about due to non-linear effects in the climate system.

Thus, the concept of an emissions budget is very useful to get the message across that the amount of CO2 that we can still emit in total (not per year) is limited if we want to stabilise global temperature at a given level, so any delay in reducing emissions can be detrimental — especially if we cross tipping points in the climate system, e.g trigger the complete loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Utopian visions of avoiding climate «tipping points» in the next decade are completely unrealistic.

While many of his colleagues are (appropriately) quick to point out hype from those aiming to undermine public confidence in climate science, Schmidt has been unafraid also to note that reality on important issues — from tipping points to extreme weather — is not always convenient for greenhouse campaigners.