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Climate tipping points are much more fantasy than science

ANY estimate of the timing of a “tipping point” must take the uncertainties into account, which are so substantial that they are all unsound when made.

The UN has cautioned that the world is dangerously close to six tipping points that could lead to irreversible damage to the planet. Climate change and resource overuse have pushed the world to the brink of these interconnected tipping points. The report highlights the threats of accelerating rates of extinction, groundwater depletion, mountain glacial melt, unbearable heat, space debris, and an uninsurable future.

The tipping points include groundwater depletion, rising insurance costs, extreme heat, species extinction, melting glaciers and space debris.

People have been close to tipping points and this affects their coping mechanism to natural disasters. Read more here.

India News: The United Nations' research arm has warned that the world is dangerously close to six "tipping points" that could cause irreversible damage to the pl

The world is heading towards a series of environmental "tipping points" that could cause irreversible damage to water supplies and other life-sustaining systems, the research arm of the United Nations warned on Wednesday. Climate change and the overuse of resources have put the world on the brink of six interconnected tipping points that "could trigger abrupt changes in our life-sustaining systems and shake the foundation of societies," the UN University's Institute for...

A constant factor, therefore, according to observations, is a further overestimation of the danger of the occurrence of “galloping ice melt” in Greenland.

Data collected directly in the Atlantic Ocean thus do not provide any support for the IPCC's forecasts of an ongoing collapse of the AMOC.

This is the keynote address delivered to the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Utrecht, August 2023, by Mark Swilling.