What are ‘Tipping points’?
‘Tipping points’, are essentially the thresholds beyond which the earth’s systems are no longer able to stabilise.
The danger in crossing tipping points becomes higher with more warming.
Such tipping points include:
- melting of Greenland ice,
- collapse of Antarctic glaciers (which would lead to several metres of sea level rise),
- destruction of Amazon forests,
- melting of all the permafrost and so on.