Risk of multiple tipping points should be triggering urgent global action on climate change

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http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_502484_en.html

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Risk of multiple tipping points should be triggering urgent global action on climate change[/font]

[font size=4]To avoid multiple climate tipping points, policy makers need to act now to stop global CO₂ emissions by 2050 and meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, a new study has said.[/font]

[font size=3]Pioneering new research, carried out by the Universities of Exeter, Zurich, Stanford and Chicago, shows that existing studies have massively under-valued the risk that ongoing carbon dioxide emissions pose of triggering damaging tipping points.

The collaborative study suggests that multiple interacting climate tipping points could be triggered this century if climate change isn’t tackled – leading to irreversible economic damages worldwide.

Using a state-of-the-art model, the researchers studied the effects of five interacting tipping points on the global economy – including a collapse of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a shift to a more persistent El Niño regime, and a dieback of the Amazon rainforest.

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Date: 21 March 2016[/font][/font]

[Nihil]

1. Key word: "should".

Given the so-called "leadership" of countries around the world, the only response
will be "Blah, blah, economy, blah, growth, blah, beyond 2050, blah ..."