Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against

By T. Lenton, J. Rockström, Owen Gaffney, Stefan Rahmstorf, K. Richardson, Will Steffen, H. Schellnhuber. Nature, 2019

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Climate change awareness: Empirical evidence for the European Union (2020, background): “International action -not just words- must reflect this”(Lenton et al., 2019).”
Low‐carbon transition risks for finance (2020, background): “The best climate projections to date indicate that catastrophic impacts could arise in the near future from nonlinear effects leading to “tipping-points” in the Earth system, such as the collapse of ice sheets or tropical rainforests (Lenton et al., 2008, 2019).”
Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points (2022, positive): “Potential causal interactions among tipping elements ( 4 ) are such that overall tipping of one element increases the likelihood of tipping others ( 16 ), possibly risking a “ tipping cascade ” of impacts that may further amplify global warming ( 2 , 3 ).”
The semiconducting principle of monetary and environmental values exchange (2020, background): “As human activities, which include but are not limited to excessive resources consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, are the major driver of the climate crisis (Lenton et al., 2020; Ripple et al., 2019), to build a new environment-oriented core value in our culture, it is necessary to incorporate”
The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change (2020, positive): “…my interpretation of the paper was correct, and that there were several other papers which also strongly reject the proposition that a smooth function is appropriate for assessing the dangers from climate change (Cai et al., 2016; Kriegler et al., 2009; Lenton et al., 2019; Lenton & Ciscar, 2013).”
Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society (2020, background): “Fires in the Amazon rainforest typically indicate deforestation, bringing the region closer to a potential tipping point (Lenton et al 2008, 2019).”
On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research (2022, background): “Recent climate science research indicates that climate tipping points [385] may already have been activated at present temperature levels, including dynamics in several Earth systems”