From 'tipping points' to 'sleeper species': 2024’s known unknowns …
Dec 17, 2024 · According to the IPCC, a tipping point is “a critical threshold beyond which a system reorganises, often abruptly and/or irreversibly”. For instance, land ice on the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets – melting rapidly and close to crossing tipping points – represents 10 metres of sea-level rise in future.
1.5°C is a physical limit: this climate target can’t be negotiated
Jan 16, 2024 · 1.5°C is a physical limit beyond which Earth systems enter a danger zone of cascading climate tipping points that propel further warming. The launch of the Climate Tipping Points Hub at Davos offers a tool for decision-makers to explore the …
Climate crisis: How positive tipping points could save the planet
Jul 2, 2024 · Norway being “at least eight years ahead of the rest of the world in tipping its marketplace completely to EVs” is another example of a tipping point, Professor Lenton says. “That is an exciting tale that begins with social activists, environmentalists who ultimately persuade, or you might say, shame the government into action.
Are we close to a green energy tipping point?
Jun 26, 2023 · More than 20 years ago, author Malcolm Gladwell wrote a best-seller called The Tipping Point.He was fascinated by “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point” when trends in business, marketing and human behaviour catch fire and begin to spread furiously.
Positive tipping points: a credible way to hit climate goals
Jul 8, 2024 · Positive tipping points are also starting to reinforce each other across sectors. Ever cheaper batteries are reinforcing the tipping point to renewable energy — by helping balance power supply and demand. And ever cheaper renewable energy is helping tip electrification of mobility as it lowers the total cost of ownership of EVs.
9 climate tipping points pushing Earth to the point of no return
Dec 5, 2019 · The world could be heading towards a cascade of climate tipping points. In an interconnected climate system, passing one tipping point may trigger a cascade of irreversible changes. As the world continues to warm, some call for urgent global action to avert an "existential threat to civilization."
3 scientific frameworks to prevent Earth system disruptions
Sep 25, 2024 · Tipping point science is an evolving field. Another group of scientists refer to 16 climate tipping elements, a subset of the broader group of 25 above. These are only triggered by a global temperature rise (not landscape changes) and their tipping affects the global climate system through reinforcing warming.
Technology’s tipping point: It is time to earn trust in AI
Mar 21, 2024 · With AI at a trust inflection point, technology companies have a unique and significant opportunity to ensure that the public recognizes the technology’s positive transformational impacts. Failing to do so risks creating deeper divisions in …
How 16 Tipping Points Could Push Our Entire Planet Into Crisis
Dec 17, 2024 · At Davos 2023, Professor Johan Rockström, discusses the 16 tipping points that regulate the state of the entire climate system on Earth. Watch the full video.
The 'positive tipping points' that could help us accelerate out of ...
Jun 10, 2024 · Tim Lenton: A massive tipping point to electric vehicles means that batteries are getting cheaper and cheaper the more that get built, through something called economies of scale. For example, when you put on the kettle isn't always when the …