Tipping points: News links for February 2019

Brakes gone: The Great Acceleration

Anthropocene What would happen if we stopped building fossil fuel infrastructure—immediately?

CNN Climate change: The more we know, the worse it seems

EcoWatch DiCaprio-Funded Study: Staying Below 1.5ºC is Totally Possible

Forbes 2018: A Tipping Point for Climate Change

Guardian David Attenborough tells Davos: ‘The Garden of Eden is no more’

Guardian Doomsday clock stays at two minutes to midnight as crisis now 'new abnormal'

New York Times The Story of 2018 Was Climate Change

Sydney Morning Herald An ocean of evidence on warming is our cue to take action - now

The Guardian 'I want you to panic': 16-year-old issues climate warning at Davos – video

The Washington Post Why I’m (slightly) less pessimistic about global warming

Washington Post Extreme weather in 2018 was a raging, howling signal of climate change

Arctic Carbon:

Boom means bust

Geophysical Research Letters Warming effects of spring rainfall increase methane emissions from thawing permafrost

Inside Climate Change Permafrost Is Warming Around the Globe, Study Shows. That's a Problem for Climate Change.

Nature Greenland melt drives continuous export of methane from the ice-sheet bed

Nature Permafrost is warming at a global scale

Scientific American Greenland Has Yet Another Methane Leak

Wiley Ecosystem carbon response of an Arctic peatland to simulated permafrost thaw

Yale Polar melting: 'Methane time bomb' isn't actually a 'bomb'

Particulate Pollution:

Bandaid™ in the sky

ACP [Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics] Anthropogenic fine particulate matter pollution

Atlantic Pollution in India Could Reshape Monsoons:

Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future The role of anthropogenic aerosol forcing in inter‐decadal variations of summertime upper‐tropospheric temperature over East Asia

Hothouse Earth: Domino Effect

BBC News 'Tipping point' risk for Arctic hotspot

Mongabay Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis

Scientific American Extreme Weather Events Could Worsen Climate Change

Scientific American The Next Climate Frontier: Predicting a Complex Domino Effect

The Conversation How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse

Wiley/AGU100/Geophysical Research Letters The effect of Arctic sea‐ice loss on the Hadley circulation

Photo Attributions

Banner picture: Photo by: Daria Devyatkina

Hothouse earth: Photo by: Bernard Spragg. NZ

Arctic carbon: Photo by: Daxis

Brakes gone: Photo by: Marcus Pink

Particulate Pollution: Photo by: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

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Anthropocene What would happen if we stopped building fossil fuel infrastructure—immediately?

CNN Climate change: The more we know, the worse it seems

EcoWatch DiCaprio-Funded Study: Staying Below 1.5ºC is Totally Possible

Forbes 2018: A Tipping Point for Climate Change

Guardian David Attenborough tells Davos: ‘The Garden of Eden is no more’

Guardian Doomsday clock stays at two minutes to midnight as crisis now 'new abnormal'

New York Times The Story of 2018 Was Climate Change

Sydney Morning Herald An ocean of evidence on warming is our cue to take action - now

The Guardian 'I want you to panic': 16-year-old issues climate warning at Davos – video

The Washington Post Why I’m (slightly) less pessimistic about global warming

Geophysical Research Letters Warming effects of spring rainfall increase methane emissions from thawing permafrost

Inside Climate Change Permafrost Is Warming Around the Globe, Study Shows. That's a Problem for Climate Change.

Nature Greenland melt drives continuous export of methane from the ice-sheet bed

Nature Permafrost is warming at a global scale

Scientific American Greenland Has Yet Another Methane Leak

Wiley Ecosystem carbon response of an Arctic peatland to simulated permafrost thaw

Yale Polar melting: 'Methane time bomb' isn't actually a 'bomb'

ACP [Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics] Anthropogenic fine particulate matter pollution

Atlantic Pollution in India Could Reshape Monsoons:

Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future The role of anthropogenic aerosol forcing in inter‐decadal variations of summertime upper‐tropospheric temperature over East Asia

BBC News 'Tipping point' risk for Arctic hotspot

Mongabay Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis

Scientific American Extreme Weather Events Could Worsen Climate Change

Scientific American The Next Climate Frontier: Predicting a Complex Domino Effect

Wiley/AGU100/Geophysical Research Letters The effect of Arctic sea‐ice loss on the Hadley circulation

Anthropocene What would happen if we stopped building fossil fuel infrastructure—immediately?

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CNN Climate change: The more we know, the worse it seems

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EcoWatch DiCaprio-Funded Study: Staying Below 1.5ºC is Totally Possible

​

Forbes 2018: A Tipping Point for Climate Change

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Guardian David Attenborough tells Davos: ‘The Garden of Eden is no more’

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Guardian Doomsday clock stays at two minutes to midnight as crisis now 'new abnormal'

​

New York Times The Story of 2018 Was Climate Change

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Sydney Morning Herald An ocean of evidence on warming is our cue to take action - now

​

The Guardian 'I want you to panic': 16-year-old issues climate warning at Davos – video

​

The Washington Post Why I’m (slightly) less pessimistic about global warming

​

Geophysical Research Letters Warming effects of spring rainfall increase methane emissions from thawing permafrost

​

Inside Climate Change Permafrost Is Warming Around the Globe, Study Shows. That's a Problem for Climate Change.

​

Nature Greenland melt drives continuous export of methane from the ice-sheet bed

​

Nature Permafrost is warming at a global scale

​

Scientific American Greenland Has Yet Another Methane Leak

​

Wiley Ecosystem carbon response of an Arctic peatland to simulated permafrost thaw

​

Yale Polar melting: 'Methane time bomb' isn't actually a 'bomb'

ACP [Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics] Anthropogenic fine particulate matter pollution

​

Atlantic Pollution in India Could Reshape Monsoons:

​

Wiley/AGU100/Earth’s Future The role of anthropogenic aerosol forcing in inter‐decadal variations of summertime upper‐tropospheric temperature over East Asia

BBC News 'Tipping point' risk for Arctic hotspot

​

Mongabay Worst mass extinction event in Earth’s history was caused by global warming analogous to current climate crisis

​

Scientific American Extreme Weather Events Could Worsen Climate Change

​

Scientific American The Next Climate Frontier: Predicting a Complex Domino Effect

​

Wiley/AGU100/Geophysical Research Letters The effect of Arctic sea‐ice loss on the Hadley circulation