22nd February 2024
Tipping points – “In climate science, a tipping point is a critical threshold that, when crossed, leads to large, accelerating and often irreversible changes in the climate system.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_system
Likely tipping points if we reach 1.5c of warming include the loss of boreal permafrost in the artic regions. This would result in the release of large amounts of methane rapidly increasing the rate of global warming.
Another potential tipping point would be the die-out of mangroves and seagrass meadows in the tropics, reducing how much carbon dioxide is absorbed by the oceans and so fuelling further global warming.
Tipping points accelerate global warming.
Further reading – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/06/earth-on-verge-of-five-catastrophic-tipping-points-scientists-warn?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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