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Tipping points in ocean and atmosphere circulations [PDF]
Continued anthropogenic pressures on the Earth system hold the potential to disrupt established circulation patterns in the ocean and atmosphere. In this narrative review, we investigate tipping points in these systems by assessing scientific evidence ...
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In a near and dystopian future in London, we are witnessing the desperate escape of a masked street-artist pursued by security forces. Despite his agility, he owes his salvation to a taxi driver who decides to act against the government controlling the media and technology and threatening citizens.
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Tipping points v. talk about tipping points
Stevan Harnad, Tripping on Tipping Points: Jubilatio Praecox, <em> Open Access Archivangelism </em> , September 21, 2007. Excerpt: <strong> Comment </strong> . Well-put. I made some of the same points in the September SOAN.
Peter Suber
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Global Tipping Points Report 2023: Ch1.2: Cryosphere tipping points. [PDF]
Drastic changes in our planet’s frozen landscapes have occurred over recent decades, from Arctic sea ice decline and thawing of permafrost soils to polar amplification, the retreat of glaciers and ice loss from the ice sheets.
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Polarization and tipping points. [PDF]
Significance Our study was motivated by a highly disturbing puzzle. Confronted with a deadly global pandemic that threatened not only massive loss of life but also the collapse of our medical system and economy, why were we unable to put partisan divisions aside and unite in a common cause, similar to the national mobilization in the ...
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Global Tipping Points 2023 Report: Ch1.4 – Tipping points in ocean and atmosphere circulations. [PDF]
This chapter assesses scientific evidence for tipping points across circulations in the ocean and atmosphere. The warming of oceans, modified wind patterns and increasing freshwater influx from melting ice hold the potential to disrupt established ...
Aksenov, Yevgeny +19 more
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Physical tipping points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the biosphere.
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Population ecosystems can display the tipping points at which extinctions of species happens. To predict the appearance of tipping points and to understand their evolution mechanism are of uttermost importance for ecological balance.
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Das empirisch bestätigte GeoSysKo-Kompetenzmodell zur geographischen Systemkompetenz orientiert sich primär an quantitativen Systemmerkmalen. Qualitative Eigenschaften, die aus systemtheoretischer Sicht wichtiger für das tiefgründige Verständnis ...
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