Climate tipping points may have been reached already, experts say

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BY JEFF BERARDELLI

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Through decades of research, and now lived experience, it has become clear that the impacts ofclimate changewill have drastic and far-reaching consequences on our planet. And while some of those consequences are predictable — like moreextreme weather,sea-level riseandloss of biodiversity— the pace at which these unfold and their eventual severity hinge on what happens with key linchpins in the climate system, called tipping points.

A tipping point is a threshold or point of no return in the climate system that once passed can no longer be reversed. Passing a tipping point does not necessarily mean immediate, drastic consequences, but it does mean those consequences become unavoidable, and over time the impacts may be dramatic.

In a2019 paper, ProfessorTimothy Lenton, a global leader on the subject, identified…

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