| ID | 138552 |
| Title Proper | Predicting tipping points |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Blaustein, Richard |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | At the time he attended the 2004 European Open Science Forum in Stockholm, German physicist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber had been speaking out publicly since the late 1990s about climate change impacting what he termed “the Achilles heels of the Earth system.” Using science-speak, he talked of “switch-and-choke points” and “large scale discontinuities” to describe the possibility that key natural systems whose stability we take for granted—like the Atlantic Ocean’s jet stream and a mechanism called the thermohaline circulation, which circulates warm water globally—could abruptly change under climate change stress. |
| `In' analytical Note | World Policy Journal Vol. 32, No.1; Spring 2015: p.32-42 |
| Journal Source | World Policy Journal 2015-03 32, 1 |
| Key Words | Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change ; IPCC ; Atlantic Ocean ; Predicting Tipping Points ; European Open Science Forum ; Earth System ; Climate Change Stress ; Predictive Science |