{"id":58428,"date":"2021-06-29T06:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T11:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58428"},"modified":"2021-06-29T06:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T11:59:14","slug":"earth-tipping-points-could-destabilize-each-other-in-domino-effect-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58428","title":{"rendered":"Earth tipping points could destabilize each other in domino effect: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"headline\">\n<div class=\"article-headline\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/2021\/06\/earth-tipping-points-could-destabilize-each-other-in-domino-effect-study\/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Facebook&amp;fbclid=IwAR0Xw-kxjJBHH8fy9CYKUxdbYWxNzYZHi8ycU_73LBEDUyvjtDUgrrnwwa8#Echobox=1624723664-1\">Earth tipping points could destabilize each other in domino effect: Study<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"col-lg-8 single\">\n<article id=\"post-244013\" class=\"post-244013 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized serial-covering-the-commons serial-planetary-boundaries topic-climate topic-climate-change topic-climate-change-and-conservation topic-climate-modeling topic-climate-science topic-conservation topic-ecosystems topic-environment topic-glaciers topic-global-warming topic-science topic-tipping-points byline-elizabeth-claire-alberts\">\n<div class=\"bulletpoints\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>A new risk analysis has found that the tipping points of five of Earth\u2019s subsystems \u2014 the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the El Nin\u0303o\u2013Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Amazon rainforest \u2014 could interact with each other in a destabilizing manner.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>It suggests that these changes could occur even before temperatures reach 2\u00b0C (3.6\u00b0F) above pre-industrial levels, which is the upper limit of the Paris Agreement.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The interactions between the different tipping elements could also lower critical temperature thresholds, essentially allowing tipping cascades to occur earlier than expected, according to the research.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Experts not involved in the study say the findings are a significant contribution to the field, but do not adequately address the timescales over which these changes could occur.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>When the first tile in a line of dominoes tips forward, it affects everything in front of it. One after another, lined-up dominoes knock into each other and topple. This is essentially what could happen to ice sheets, ocean currents and even the Amazon biome if critical tipping points are crossed, according to a new risk analysis. The destabilization of one element could impact the others, creating a domino effect of drastic changes that could move the Earth into an unfamiliar state \u2014 one potentially dangerous to the future of humanity and nature as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published this month in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esd.copernicus.org\/articles\/12\/601\/2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><em>Earth System Dynamics<\/em><\/a>, examines the interactions between five subsystems that are known to have vital thresholds,\u00a0or tipping points, that could trigger irreversible changes. They include the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the El Nin\u0303o\u2013Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Amazon Rainforest.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth tipping points could destabilize each other in domino effect: Study A new risk analysis has found that the tipping points of five of Earth\u2019s subsystems \u2014 the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the El Nin\u0303o\u2013Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Amazon rainforest \u2014 could interact with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[141,150,2418,31390,690,9740],"class_list":["post-58428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-earth","tag-elizabeth-claire-alberts","tag-risk","tag-tipping-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58429,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58428\/revisions\/58429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}