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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System
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🌍 Embracing uncertainty in the science of tipping points & their impacts
🌊 Polar ice sheets, Amazon rainforest, Atlantic Ocean Currents (AMOC)
🔬 Funded by the European Union No.101137601
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⚖️ Most scientists agree #Greenland melt will likely tip the Atlantic currents, but can the #WestAntarcticIceSheet melt stabilize it?

Sacha Sinet @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social shares his findings soon to appear in @science.org #AMOC

Join #ClimTipWebinar 4 Nov 2-3pm CET
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"Opening the conference, @iiasa.ac.at director general Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber shared his personal view that '1.5C is dead, 2C is in agony and 3C is looming'."

www.carbonbrief.org/overshoot-ex...
Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’ - Carbon Brief
The first-ever international conference on the contentious topic of “overshoot” was held last week in...
www.carbonbrief.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
⚖️ Most scientists agree #Greenland melt will likely tip the Atlantic currents, but can the #WestAntarcticIceSheet melt stabilize it?

Sacha Sinet @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social shares his findings soon to appear in @science.org #AMOC

Join #ClimTipWebinar 4 Nov 2-3pm CET
🔗 bit.ly/climtip-webi...
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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6 EU-funded climate & Earth system modelling projects—@esm2025.bsky.social, @optimesm-eu.bsky.social, @tipesm.bsky.social, @climtip.bsky.social, @rescueclimate.bsky.social & NextGEMS—came together for a clustered science-to-policy meeting to present insights.💬🌐 ukesm.ac.uk/climate-rese...
Climate Research at the Heart of EU Policy: Six Projects Unite to Inform Decision-Making
Climate research provides the scientific foundation of the European Union’s climate policies, including the ambitious European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. Scienti…
ukesm.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵
October 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
📈 It matters not just much our planet heats up, but how fast that happens.

Join today's #ClimTip webinar with Jan Swierczek-Jereczek from @ucm.es on this process called rate-induced tipping and the stability of Antarctic Ice Sheet.

7 October, 2025
2:00–3:00 pm CEST
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October 7, 2025 at 9:53 AM
⚠️ New study in @nature.com shows convincing observational evidence that the Greenland Ice Sheet, Atlantic Ocean currents (AMOC), Amazon rainforest & South American monsoons – are all losing resilience.

Read more tinyurl.com/26heycew

#ClimTip @tum.de @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
1/ Headlines in 2023 warned the AMOC – the Atlantic “conveyor belt” that warms Europe – could collapse in 2025.

New research led by @jonbakerocean.bsky.social ‬in @nature.com challenges that: shutdown this century is unlikely.

But weakening is real, and risky. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes - Nature
Climate models suggest that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is unlikely to collapse this century, owing to stabilization from wind-driven upwelling in the Southern Ocean.
www.nature.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Hello everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, Despite a 26% drop in global burned area from 2002 to 2021, human exposure to wildland fires rose by 40%, especially in Africa. Population growth and expansion of the wildland-urban interface doubled exposure per burned area unit 🌎
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area
Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...
www.science.org
August 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🌊 The Atlantic “conveyor belt” (AMOC) is weakening under climate change. A new @nature.com study suggests collapse is unlikely this century, but the risks remain very serious.

Hear from lead author @jonbakerocean.bsky.social in our next webinar.

📅 2 Sep 2025, 2–3PM CEST
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August 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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❝ Evidence shows that many parts of the Earth system—from the Amazon rainforest, Atlantic currents to ice sheets—are losing resilience.❞ #ClimTip

💬 Read the full interview with #SebastianBathiany & @kuatabeshev.bsky.social for @maiaresilience.bsky.social

alterclimatechange.com/publication/...
Earth's vital systems nearing abrupt and irreversible collapse, warn scientists
An interview with the ClimTip project
alterclimatechange.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Last month's total #Arctic sea ice volume averaged the 5th lowest on record for the month of July. This was about 60% below 1979 levels and 41% below the 1979-2024 July average.

More at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... Data from PIOMAS 🥼❄️🌊
August 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
❝ Evidence shows that many parts of the Earth system—from the Amazon rainforest, Atlantic currents to ice sheets—are losing resilience.❞ #ClimTip

💬 Read the full interview with #SebastianBathiany & @kuatabeshev.bsky.social for @maiaresilience.bsky.social

alterclimatechange.com/publication/...
Earth's vital systems nearing abrupt and irreversible collapse, warn scientists
An interview with the ClimTip project
alterclimatechange.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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It’s been so smoky grey here I’m missing these sunsets 🌅 #sunset
July 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I am very happy to announce that "The Language of Climate Politics" has been shortlisted for the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability. 😊

I'm honored to be in the company of @akshatrathi.bsky.social, Rob Jackson, and Edward Humes!

#ClimateChange
June 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Which Earth system may tip at 1.5ºC warming—is it Arctic sea ice? The Amazon? Or permafrost?

Sjoerd Terpstra from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social shares latest findings in next #ClimTip Webinar.

📅 Join us 1 July, 2025, 2–3PM CEST
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#ClimateTippingPoints #ClimateScience
June 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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How to use AI-based tools to support and enhance communication efforts in climate research projects?

Join the #ClimateResearchNet for these
@maiaresilience.bsky.social
workshops on the use of AI for creating content for social media and visuals!
June 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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The report on our Clustering Event organised in collaboration with @climtip.bsky.social is now available in #OpenAccess 👏
🔗 zenodo.org/records/1531...

We've also compiled a list of all available resources from the event - check it out here: tipesm.eu/2025/05/05/r...
May 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
🌍 How do #ClimateTippingPoints fit into the #PlanetaryBoundaries framework?

Dr. Levke Caesar from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social explains it all in the next ClimTip Webinar.

📅 Join us 3 June, 2025, 2–3PM CEST
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#ClimTip #TippingPoints #EarthSystemScience #AMOC
May 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
⚠️🐠 How would AMOC or Subpolar Gyre collapse reshape marine life?

Join next #ClimTip webinar with Amber Boot @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social to learn how shifting ocean currents can impact marine life.

📅 6 May 2–3 PM CEST
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#ClimateTippingPoints #AMOC #ClimateChange
May 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Had a fantastic time at the TipESM and ClimTip Joint Annual Meeting in Paris. I really enjoyed the intense discussion on tipping point impacts and behaviour, as well as thought-provoking breakout groups and storyline sessions encouraging us to think outside the box and reconsider our assumptions.
👋 Paris welcomes #ClimTip and #TipESM with a perfect April weather for the joint annual conference 2025 hosted at Institut Henri Poincaré!

We look forward to lively exchanges between researchers working on #ClimateTippingPoints in the Earth system!

@climtip.bsky.social @tipesm.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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❓Did you know that many climate models—the ones we rely on for future planning—have a serious blind spot and may be overconfident.

A new study in @commsearth.bsky.social reveals why this is a problem. And it’s all about polar ice sheets and climate tipping points. 1/🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
February 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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👋 Paris welcomes #ClimTip and #TipESM with a perfect April weather for the joint annual conference 2025 hosted at Institut Henri Poincaré!

We look forward to lively exchanges between researchers working on #ClimateTippingPoints in the Earth system!

@climtip.bsky.social @tipesm.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
👋 Paris welcomes #ClimTip and #TipESM with a perfect April weather for the joint annual conference 2025 hosted at Institut Henri Poincaré!

We look forward to lively exchanges between researchers working on #ClimateTippingPoints in the Earth system!

@climtip.bsky.social @tipesm.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM