The TiPES Podcast - Tipping points change Earth and climate
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Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ocean currents will tip mid century
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Huge climate change coming up, if we continue business as usual. The ocean current system, the AMOC, keeps Europe in a relatively mild climate. But th...
Undoing climate tipping
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ice sheets, ocean current systems, and other slowly reacting climate subsystems can be saved after having crossed their tipping points. Paul Ritchie, ...
Will it tip? Large climate models tested on a past climate
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Large, complex climate models previously failed to simulate the frequent, abrupt climate changes of the latest glacial period. However, there is progr...
How soon will Arctic sea ice melt away every summer?
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Louise Sime from the British Antarctic Survey explains findings that have indicated the Arctic could be technically free of sea ice most summers withi...
Were abrupt climate changes during Ice Age controlled by CO?
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Extreme and sudden warmings during the latest ice age might have been controlled by certain amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere. Guido Vettoretti from th...
Early warnings for tipping of the West Central Greenland ice sheet and Atlantic ocean currents
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two studies this year involving Niklas Boers of the TiPES-project have found early warning signals for tipping of a large ocean current system in the ...
How the speed of change might tip the climate
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this TiPES-podcast, we try to reach an intuitive understanding of climate tipping - not least rate-induced tipping which is when the speed of clima...
New study: Tipping might be avoided
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A study in Science indicates that we should reconsider the idea of irreversible abrupt climate change, known as climate tipping. The climate system is...
Getting the IPCC to focus more on tipping
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is important to understand the risk of tipping points under the current climatic situation. To help increase scientific focus on this subject, Thom...
Ocean circulation is crucial to the prediction of climate change
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The accuracy of climate predictions depends crucially on how the ocean circulation of the North Atlantic is incorporated into climate models, a study ...
Ocean currents might tip before we expect it
22 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We know, that climate tipping could lead to abrupt climate changes. It now turns out, tipping might take place before we would expect it to - due to r...
How we risk losing the Amazon in the next decades
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deforestation and climate change drive the Amazon rainforest towards tipping points. Niklas Boers from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Change Impact ...
Droughts in the Amazon rainforest can now be predicted
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Severe droughts are becoming more frequent in the Amazon rainforest and not only damage the forest but also impact the lives of millions in the area n...
Confirmed: Sudden climate changes during ice ages influenced whole planet
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It has long been suspected that the repeated abrupt spikes of heating which took place during the ice ages (Dansgaard-Oeschger events) impacted most p...
On your own on an ice sheet
14 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015 Sune Olander Rasmussen from the Niels Bohr Institute was left with a small a few colleagues on the ice sheet of Renland in Eastern Greenland. ...
The urgency of understanding tipping points
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We know from the past, that elements in the climate system might pass tipping points after which they enter new states with no return in a foreseeable...
Tipping Sahara from desert to green and back
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sahara turned green at the end of the last ice age. Climate sciencists have struggled to model exactly how the transition took place. Professor Paul V...
We narrowly missed an ice age 100 years ago
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Earth was very close to entering an ice age only 100 years ago due to natural causes. Now we must wait at least 100.000 years for the next ice age. Th...
How much will a doubling of CO2 change Earth temperatures?
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How much will temperatures go up, if we double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere? That has turned out to be a tricky question to answer scientifical...
The climate system is noisy like an uncoordinated orchestra
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Understanding data from the climate system is like trying to find the melodies in the cacophonic noise of an uncoordinated orchestra- but this is what...
Future weather in your part of the world
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is abstract and hard to understand. Rain, drought, storms and flooding make much more sense to the human mind. That is why climate scie...