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The UK prime minister has described his new government as a circuit breaker – but tipping points may be a better metaphor.
Prehistoric pollen records show that forest dynamics were driven by more than just broad-scale climatic changes.
We don’t have to persuade everyone to do the right thing. We just need to persuade enough people to make the system tip in the right direction.
Can one person change the world? At a time of pessimism and populism, a new book suggests how we can achieve social change.
The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.
A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at growing risk. But, what does that actually mean?
Electric vehicle sales are racing ahead in the UK – but the switch to heat pumps is lagging behind.
The answer confirms scientists’ suspicion that when our planet’s climate crosses certain ‘tipping points’, truly catastrophic ecological collapse can follow.
Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.
China has spent ten times more on clean energy than either the US or Europe over the past five years.
It’s not easy to tell when a dynamic system, filled with life, might reach a point of no return.
New research predicts when noisy systems are approaching precarious “critical points” – and finds that some parts of the brain prefer to work at the edge of instability
The climate ‘flickered’ between wet and dry, before finally drying out for good.
We don’t yet fully understand what global climate tipping points mean for Australia. But we know enough to conclude the impacts of passing one or more tipping points must now be considered.
Including a positive way to think about tipping points.
One positive change can lead to another.
Coral reefs are already being lost, and four other vital climate systems may tip soon.
Climate change is going to bring social change. Will it drive ever-faster efforts to stave off the worst – or trigger social upheavals making it harder for us to respond?
We ran computer programs that simulate ecosystems 70,000 times and the results are very worrying.
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Research Impact Fellow, Green Futures Solutions and Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Professor of Sustainability, Bangor University
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Professor of Climate Change, University of Exeter
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Senior Researcher in Economics, University of Oxford
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Research Lead, Carbon Dioxide Removal, CSIRO
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Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
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Emeritus Professor, Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University
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Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Professor of Practice in Meteorology, Professor of International Affairs & Director Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk, Penn State
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Professor in Physical Oceanography and Climate Physics, University of Southampton
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Professor, Hospitality Finance, Director, Food Decisions Research Laboratory, Penn State
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