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Tipping Points

Mathematical Alarms Could Help Predict and Avoid Climate Tipping Points

A new study finds that mathematical tools can find early warning signals that can accurately predict climate tipping points.

By Charlie Miller

Sea ice as seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft in the Antarctic Peninsula region, on Nov. 4, 2017, above Antarctica. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images
A forest is incinerated by the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, California, on July 23, 2022. - The California wildfire ripped through thousands of acres on July 23 after being sparked a day earlier, as millions of Americans sweltered through scorching heat with already record-setting temperatures due to climb. Credit: David McNew / AFP via Getty Images

Scientists Say It’s ‘Fatally Foolish’ To Not Study Catastrophic Climate Outcomes

By Bob Berwyn

Aerial view showing smoke rising from an illegal fire destroying Amazonia rainforest in Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil, on Sept. 15, 2021. Credit: Mauro Pimentel/AFP via Getty Images

Is the Amazon Approaching a Tipping Point? A New Study Shows the Rainforest Growing Less Resilient

By Georgina Gustin

Ice floats near the coast of West Antarctica viewed from a window of a NASA Operation IceBridge airplane on Oct. 27, 2016 in-flight over Antarctica. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

New Research Explores the Costs of Climate Tipping Points, and How They Could Compound One Another

By Bob Berwyn

Greenland ice sheet

Study: Predicting Tipping Points Within Reach

By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News

James Hansen on Climate Tipping Points and Political Leadership

By James Hansen

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