Climate tipping points: retreating from the brink and accelerating positive change

Photo courtesy: Shutterstock / noer-cungkring. Article by James Dacey. Physics World – November 8, 2022.

Climate change is no longer a distant threat but is already making us face perilous “tipping points” that could alter our daily lives forever. James Dacey finds out how new research into human-climate systems could help us to avert disaster

“Flood warnings as heavy rain and thunderstorms hit”
“Torrential downpours trigger travel chaos”
“People stranded as flooding cuts off communities”

Stories about floods are a staple diet in the media. It’s hardly surprising given that heavy rain can have a huge impact on local communities – damaging homes, knocking out power lines and blocking roads. But imagine if an unfortunate combination of intense local flooding in one part of a country unleashed travel chaos across an entire nation. […]

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