Pablo Ortega

Pablo Ortega

Pablo Ortega
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Co-leader of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's Climate Change and Prediction Group

Too much uncertainty to predict when climate tipping points will occur, warns study

Climate tipping points are thresholds at which elements of the Earth could reach a point of no return, accelerated by climate change and with consequences for the rest of the planet. These drastic changes could affect, for example, the Atlantic Meridional Circulation (AMOC), polar ice sheets or tropical rainforests. A study published in Science Advances concludes that there is too much uncertainty to extrapolate historical data and reliably estimate when these inflections will occur.
 

 

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