By Juan Bordera Romá, Resilience.org
There are many examples of Tipping points (TP). Although tipping points and points of no return are the buzzwords of our times, we should probably be using them more than we are.
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
It may be helpful to outline some important recent developments in Anthropocene science in the two main fields involved: geology, and Earth System science.
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
Last week a new paper in Nature caused a stir and world-wide headlines, and for good reason. “Climate tipping points - too risky to bet against” by Lenton, Rockstrom, Gaffney, Rahmstrof, Richardson, Steffen and Schellnhuber look at the “evidence on the threat of exceeding (climate system) tipping points, and whether we still have any control over them” because this “helps to define that we are in a climate emergency.”
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
It is not surprising that humans look to themselves as arbiters of what's important in the life and processes of the biosphere. Humans, like every other species, seek their own survival and well-being first. But our overreliance on humans as the measure of all things is the very posture which has put us on the road to potentially catastrophic changes in climate and other planetary systems, changes that threaten our very survival.
By James Dyke, The Conversation
February didn’t break climate change records – it obliterated them.
By Joe Romm, Climate Progress
New studies in Science and Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) find that glaciers in the Amundsen Sea region of the great Antarctic ice sheet have begun the process of irreversible collapse.