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Sep 9, 2022 30 tweets 9 min read
We’ve got a new paper out on climate #TippingPoints in @ScienceMagazine: “Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points”
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Explainer: climatetippingpoints.info/2022/09/09/cli…

🧵Thread on what it says, & the implications:

1/30 #ClimateChange Climate tipping points (CTPs) have become a major global concern since the first major CTP assessment in 2008, which provided a definition and identified nine parts of the climate system (named "tipping elements") with potential CTPs.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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