Climate tipping points sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans – here’s why there’s still room for optimism

A report warns that coral reefs may have reached their tipping point, and ice sheets, ocean currents and the Amazon are at ...
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What are climate tipping points? They sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans, but there’s still room for optimism

Alexandra A Phillips, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets ...