In an empirical study published today in “Nature Climate Change”, Dr. Taylor Smith from the University of Potsdam and his colleagues at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Technical University of Munich (TUM) show that the ability … Continued
Abrupt global climate changes, named Dansgaard-Oeschger events, that appeared throughout the last ice age, likely depended on the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2)concentration, study shows Large jumps within the last ice age between cold and warm climate periods in … Continued
Crossing a tipping point may lead to many other situations than the generally assumed catastrophic outcome. The consequences of crossing a tipping point might often be much more subtle and less severe than generally assumed. That is the conclusion of … Continued
Data analysis reveals the rainforest is losing resilience and is approaching a critical transition More than three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has been losing resilience since early 2000, and the rainforest now shows characteristic signs of approaching a tipping point. … Continued
The workshop is titled “Challenges and new directions in risk analysis, decision making and policy advice for climate change,” and will take place on March 11th, 2022. From 10am to 1pm, there will be four talks, followed by a panel … Continued
The paper Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in Nature Climate Science by Niklas Boers was the second most featured climate science paper in news media and on SoMe in 2021 according to Carbonbrief.org. … Continued
In the last 66 million years, the climate of the Earth is known to have shifted abruptly between four different states; hothouse, warm house, cold house and icehouse. This was documented in 2020 by Westerhold et al. A further analysis … Continued
Note that the deadline for abstract submission is January 12, 2022. You are encouraged to submit an abstract to the session on Tipping Points in the Earth System (TiPES), at the EGU General Assembly (EGU22, April 3-8 2022). Session Description: Several subsystems of the … Continued
A new analytical tool can help find tipping events back millions of years, potentially improving the understanding of tipping points in the Earth system TiPES-researchers have developed an automated method for the detection and precise dating of abrupt climate events … Continued
