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- There are about a dozen potential environmental tipping points that we do know about, but there may be a few still to be discovered.
- There are about a dozen potential environmental tipping points that we do know about, but there may be a few still to be discovered.
- Changes in average global temperature from one year to another tend to be quite small. This one is gigantic.
- Changes in average global temperature from one year to another tend to be quite small. This one is gigantic.
- 'It’s the first time in history that it’s more likely than not that we will exceed 1.5°C,' said Adam Scaife at Britain’s Met Office Hadley Centre. That means we're heading into territory where ‘tipping points’ may be lurking.
- 'It’s the first time in history that it’s more likely than not that we will exceed 1.5°C,' said Adam Scaife at Britain’s Met Office Hadley Centre. That means we're heading into territory where ‘tipping points’ may be lurking.
- We’re not in the Holocene any more. That golden age of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming, grew their population a thousandfold, and created high-energy, hi-tech civilizations is at an end.
- We’re not in the Holocene any more. That golden age of warm, stable climate in which humans started farming, grew their population a thousandfold, and created high-energy, hi-tech civilizations is at an end.
- Last month, it was worst off the eastern coast of North America where the sea surface temperature was as much as 13.8 Celsius higher than the 1981-2011 average for this time of year. Not only was that a record; it was an astounding leap upwards: more than double the previous record.
- Last month, it was worst off the eastern coast of North America where the sea surface temperature was as much as 13.8 Celsius higher than the 1981-2011 average for this time of year. Not only was that a record; it was an astounding leap upwards: more than double the previous record.
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