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2. Tipping points in the climate system - Wikipedia

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   The 2019 IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate defines a tipping point as: "A level of change in system properties beyond which a system reorganises, often in a non-linear manner, and does not return to the initial state even if the drivers of the change are abated. For the climate system, the term refers to a ...

3. Climate change tipping points will be passed sooner than ...

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   A new study in the journal Science finds that even the most aggressive goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions aren’t sufficient to avoid several major climate change tipping points, in which ...

4. Tipping point - Wikipedia

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   Tipping point (sociology), an event when a previously rare phenomenon becomes rapidly and dramatically more common; Tipping point, in catastrophe theory, the value of the parameter in which the set of equilibria abruptly changes; Tipping points in the climate system, thresholds that, when exceeded, can lead to large changes in the state of the ...

5. Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change (2005 conference)

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   [citation needed] However, a 2018 published study points at a threshold at which temperatures could rise to 4 or 5 degrees through self-reinforcing feedbacks in the climate system, suggesting the threshold (or 'tipping point') is below the 2 degree temperature target.

6. World on brink of environmental tipping points, UN says - AOL

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   Climate change and the overuse of resources have put the world on the brink of six interconnected tipping points that "could trigger abrupt changes in our life-sustaining systems and shake the ...

7. Climate tipping points may have been reached already ... - AOL

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   A look at three key tipping points for the climate that scientists are watching closely. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

8. List of statements by major scientific organizations about ...

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   In it, the IUGG concurs with the "comprehensive and widely accepted and endorsed scientific assessments carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and regional and national bodies, which have firmly established, on the basis of scientific evidence, that human activities are the primary cause of recent climate change".

9. Climate tipping points near for Greenland, but it's not too ...

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   New research suggests the Greenland ice sheet is on track to cross a critical threshold that could cause runaway melting, but that it’s also possible the threshold will be crossed temporarily ...