Refecting on the Science of Climate Tipping Points to Inform and Assist Policy Making and Address the Risks they Pose to Society ...
There is a diverging perception of climate tipping points, abrupt changes and surprises in the scientific community and the public. While such dynamics have been observed in the past, e.g., frequent reductions of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last ice age, or ice sheet c...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Text |
Language: | English |
Published: |
ETH Zurich
2024
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000678425 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/678425 |
id |
ftdatacite:10.3929/ethz-b-000678425 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftdatacite:10.3929/ethz-b-000678425 2024-09-15T18:12:26+00:00 Refecting on the Science of Climate Tipping Points to Inform and Assist Policy Making and Address the Risks they Pose to Society ... Stocker, Thomas F. Jones, Richard G. Hegglin, Michaela I. Lenton, Timothy M. Hegerl, Gabriele C. Seneviratne, Sonia I. van der Wel, Narelle Wood, Robert A. 2024 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000678425 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/678425 en eng ETH Zurich Tipping points HILL events IPCC assessment Scientific consensus article-journal Journal Article Text ScholarlyArticle 2024 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000678425 2024-07-03T11:14:10Z There is a diverging perception of climate tipping points, abrupt changes and surprises in the scientific community and the public. While such dynamics have been observed in the past, e.g., frequent reductions of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last ice age, or ice sheet collapses, tipping points might also be a possibility in an anthropogenically perturbed climate. In this context, high impact-low likelihood events, both in the physical realm as well as in ecosystems, will be potentially dangerous. Here we argue that a formalized assessment of the state of science is needed in order to establish a consensus on this issue and to reconcile diverging views. This has been the approach taken by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since 1990, the IPCC has consistently generated robust consensus on several complex issues, ranging from the detection and attribution of climate change, the global carbon budget and climate sensitivity, to the projection of extreme events ... : Surveys in Geophysics ... Text Ice Sheet DataCite |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
DataCite |
op_collection_id |
ftdatacite |
language |
English |
topic |
Tipping points HILL events IPCC assessment Scientific consensus |
spellingShingle |
Tipping points HILL events IPCC assessment Scientific consensus Stocker, Thomas F. Jones, Richard G. Hegglin, Michaela I. Lenton, Timothy M. Hegerl, Gabriele C. Seneviratne, Sonia I. van der Wel, Narelle Wood, Robert A. Refecting on the Science of Climate Tipping Points to Inform and Assist Policy Making and Address the Risks they Pose to Society ... |
topic_facet |
Tipping points HILL events IPCC assessment Scientific consensus |
description |
There is a diverging perception of climate tipping points, abrupt changes and surprises in the scientific community and the public. While such dynamics have been observed in the past, e.g., frequent reductions of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last ice age, or ice sheet collapses, tipping points might also be a possibility in an anthropogenically perturbed climate. In this context, high impact-low likelihood events, both in the physical realm as well as in ecosystems, will be potentially dangerous. Here we argue that a formalized assessment of the state of science is needed in order to establish a consensus on this issue and to reconcile diverging views. This has been the approach taken by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since 1990, the IPCC has consistently generated robust consensus on several complex issues, ranging from the detection and attribution of climate change, the global carbon budget and climate sensitivity, to the projection of extreme events ... : Surveys in Geophysics ... |
format |
Text |
author |
Stocker, Thomas F. Jones, Richard G. Hegglin, Michaela I. Lenton, Timothy M. Hegerl, Gabriele C. Seneviratne, Sonia I. van der Wel, Narelle Wood, Robert A. |
author_facet |
Stocker, Thomas F. Jones, Richard G. Hegglin, Michaela I. Lenton, Timothy M. Hegerl, Gabriele C. Seneviratne, Sonia I. van der Wel, Narelle Wood, Robert A. |
author_sort |
Stocker, Thomas F. |
title |
Refecting on the Science of Climate Tipping Points to Inform and Assist Policy Making and Address the Risks they Pose to Society ... |
title_short |
Refecting on the Science of Climate Tipping Points to Inform and Assist Policy Making and Address the Risks they Pose to Society ... |
title_full |
Refecting on the Science of Climate Tipping Points to Inform and Assist Policy Making and Address the Risks they Pose to Society ... |
title_fullStr |
Refecting on the Science of Climate Tipping Points to Inform and Assist Policy Making and Address the Risks they Pose to Society ... |
title_full_unstemmed |
Refecting on the Science of Climate Tipping Points to Inform and Assist Policy Making and Address the Risks they Pose to Society ... |
title_sort |
refecting on the science of climate tipping points to inform and assist policy making and address the risks they pose to society ... |
publisher |
ETH Zurich |
publishDate |
2024 |
url |
https://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000678425 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/678425 |
genre |
Ice Sheet |
genre_facet |
Ice Sheet |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000678425 |
_version_ |
1810450013296263168 |