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What are climate tipping points? They sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans, but there’s still room for optimism

  • Written by Alexandra A Phillips, Assistant Teaching Professor in Environmental Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara
What are climate tipping points? They sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans, but there’s still room for optimismMeltwater runs across the Greenland ice sheet in rivers. The ice sheet is already losing mass and could soon reach a tipping point.Maria-José Viñas/NASA

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes.

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