What is a Tipping Point?
THE TIPPING POINT CRISIS is based on the research of Professor Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter, who has identified 12 dangerous “Tipping Points”. These have the potential to dramatically affect the performance of the climate system and take us from a stable climate system, to an unstable system with unpredictable weather patterns around the globe.
A TIPPING POINT is a critical threshold at which a tiny change can dramatically alter the state of development of a system tipping past a point of no return.
• ARCTIC SEA ICE
• GREENLAND ICE SHEET
• WEST ANTARCTICA ICE SHEET
• YEDOMA PERMA FROST
• OCEAN METHANE HYDRATES
• HIMALAYAN GLACIERS
• OCEANIC CIRCULATION
• INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON
• THE AMAZON RAINFOREST
• THE WEST AFRICA MONSOON
• THE THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION
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