Risk of climate tipping points escalates at 1.5C warming: study
Failing to achieve the Paris agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C could trigger multiple dangerous "tipping points" where changes to climate systems become self-sustaining, according to a major new study published in Science.. These points are defined as a reinforcing feedback in a climate system that is so strong it becomes self-propelling at a certain threshold -- meaning even if warming stopped, an ice sheet, ocean or rainforest would keep changing to a new state.
