Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

By T. Lenton, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler, Jim W Hall, Wolfgang Lucht, Stefan Rahmstorf, H. Schellnhuber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2008

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A relational turn for sustainability science? Relational thinking, leverage points and transformations (2020, background): “…points and cross-scale interactions; the roles of worldviews, values, and notions of stew-ardship; and attempts to nurture transformations and transitions to more sustainable configurations (Clark and Dickson 2003; Lenton et al. 2008; Kates 2010; Levin and Clark 2010; Horcea-Milcu et al. 2020).”
The projected effects of climatic and vegetation changes on the distribution and diversity of Southeast Asian bats (2012, background): “Yet, current climate changes are occurring at much higher rates than previous changes and may soon reach a tipping point, which could change the state of the climate system entirely (Lenton et al., 2008).”
Critical issues for the calculation of the social cost of CO2: why the estimates from PAGE09 are higher than those from PAGE2002 (2013, methodology): “…are consistent with ice sheet estimates in Hansen 2007, and would also be appropriate for discontinuities like monsoon disruption and thermohaline circulation, with the medium and longer values reflecting more mainstream views of the loss of ice sheets (Nicholls et al. 2008; Lenton et al. 2008).”
A Third Wave in the Economics of Climate Change (2015, background): “Physical scientists have identified a number of tipping points and risks in the climate system (Lenton et al. 2008) that could triggermajor economic disruption.1 Scientific uncertainties are inevitable andmost IAMs try to account for these uncertainties by simulating a range of parameters.”
Massive mortality of aspen following severe drought along the southern edge of the Canadian boreal forest (2011, background): “Like the Amazon rainforest, the boreal forest has been identified as a critical ‘tipping element’ of the earth’s climate system (Lenton et al., 2008), where even modest increases in temperature-related water stress could lead to rapid, nonlinear changes in a wide range of biophysical processes…”
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments (2011, background): “In the interim, recent work by Lenton et al (2008) has proposed the use of early warning systems using trend analysis and predictive modelling to identify systems that are likely to cross such tipping points.”
Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development (2011, background): “As a typical correlate, natural scientists warn of and describe specifi c tipping points, critical thresholds at which a tiny perturbation can qualitatively alter the state or development of Earth systems (Lenton et al., 2008).”