"You take a million, billion tonnes of flaming inferno and turn it into 'twinkle, twinkle little star' ..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2009

With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, by Fred Pearce

I bought With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists fear Tipping Points in Climate Change to investigate the concept of tipping points in climate change: how real are they, and what ones might exist. A lot of points are labelled 'tipping points', such as the melting of the Arctic; but, if we successfully reduced CO2 to pre-industrial levels, would they revert, or would we have passed a point of no return?

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