Submitted by lightscameracrafty t3_yfab57 in Futurology
Gemini884 t1_iu8mb72 wrote
Reply to comment by BitterPuddin in Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View by lightscameracrafty
There is no evidence for projected warming <3-4C of any tipping points that significantly change the warming trajectory. Read what scientists say instead of speculating-
https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann/status/1495438146905026563
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/hausfath/status/1571146283582365697#m
"Some people will look at this and go, ‘well, if we’re going to hit tipping points at 1.5°C, then it’s game over’. But we’re saying they would lock in some really unpleasant impacts for a very long time, but they don’t cause runaway global warming."- Quote from Dr. David Armstrong Mckay, the author of one of recent studies on the subject to Newscientist mag. here are explainers he's written before-
https://climatetippingpoints.info/2019/04/01/climate-tipping-points-fact-check-series-introduction/ (introduction is a bit outdated and there are some estimates that were ruled out in past year's ipcc report afaik but articles themselves are more up to date)
Tam1 t1_iucm92c wrote
Thank you heaps for posting this. This was a really interesting and somewhat uplifting rabbit hole to go down
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