"This is not the tipping point, it’s the end point…the point of no return. All the indicators are now looking like it could be much earlier, maybe 2035."
— Howard Dryden, LinkedIn, 2 Sep 2024
Again:
What are "tipping points" in regards to Earth's climate system? Where did the term come from, how has it evolved, and why does it remain contentious? Read "Earth on the brink? Looking back on nearly two decades of tipping point research," three expert interviews by @jessimckenzi.bsky.social. (1/4)
— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@thebulletin.org) March 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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'Metaphors can grow legs': An interview with David Armstrong McKay, a lecturer and researcher at the @sussex.ac.uk and the lead author of a 2022 paper that reassessed the risk of all the tipping elements in the Earth system. (2/4)
— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@thebulletin.org) March 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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'The riskometer has been going up all the time': An interview with Tim Lenton, founding director of the @gsiexeter.bsky.social at @exeter.ac.uk and lead author of the 2008 paper that formally introduced the idea of tipping points in the Earth’s climate system. (3/4)
— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@thebulletin.org) March 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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'Notoriously difficult to investigate and even more difficult to predict': An interview with Thomas Stocker, professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern, and lead author of a 2024 article that argued for the necessity of an assessment of tipping points by the IPCC. (4/4)
— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (@thebulletin.org) March 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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