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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 1d

📈 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
👉 bit.ly/climtip-webi...

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 7d

⚠️ 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

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Image of the Earth precariously balancing on a jenga tower with text that reads: "Out of Balance". Image credit: "Out of Balance" (Digital collage from Ai generated art with typography) by Kuat Abeshev.

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

10/ To refine these projections, we need better observations of the Southern Ocean and Indo-Pacific to check these stabilising processes.

🔀 If models are biased here, the picture could change.
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

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

9/ Collapse this century looks unlikely, but weakening is almost certain and carries serious risks⚠️

“This is no excuse for complacency. A “big freeze” in Europe may not be imminent, but the urgency to act has never been greater. The AMOC’s future depends on our actions today," says the author

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

8/ 🪾A weaker AMOC could shift rainfall belts, bringing drought to parts of the tropics.
❄️ Europe may face stormier winters and drier summers, ⬆️ the US east coast faster sea-level rise,
🌾 while ecosystems and food security worldwide could be disrupted.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate impacts of a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a warming climate

The global and regional impacts of the AMOC slowdown on climate change in the 21st century are isolated and quantified.

www.science.org

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

7/ Together, these processes explain why models show slowdown rather than collapse.

⚠️ Climate projections suggest the AMOC will weaken by ~25–40% by 2100, depending on emissions.

And that weakening matters.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Overturning Pathways Control AMOC Weakening in CMIP6 Models

The magnitude of 21st century Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakening in CMIP6 models is highly correlated with an AMOC pathway into the Indo-Pacific Ocean The real-world “In...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

6/ 2️⃣ Pacific circulation is too weak. In extreme cases, a Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation (PMOC) forms – a reversed version of Pacific circulation today.

🌊 If strong enough, it could replace Atlantic sinking and trigger collapse.

But under realistic warming, it stays weak or absent.

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

5/ 1️⃣ 🌬️ Southern Ocean winds act like a pump, hauling deep water to the surface.

⚖️ That upwelling must be balanced by sinking elsewhere. Unless the Pacific fully takes over, some sinking will always remain in the Atlantic.

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

4/ To see AMOC’s response, authors used 34 climate models under two extreme scenarios:
1) quadrupling CO₂; 2) adding huge freshwater from Greenland.

In both cases the AMOC weakened, but didn’t completely shut down.

‼️ The explanation comes down to two stabilising factors:
tinyurl.com/264rmmrt

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.

tinyurl.com

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

3/ Global warming and Greenland’s meltwater entering the North Atlantic weaken this circulation, raising fears it could fail.

Yet most climate models don’t show collapse (i.e., weakening below 6 Sv) this century.

Until now, the reason for that stability wasn’t clear.

tinyurl.com/mrx5fza4

Assessing the stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation of the past, present, and future - Journal of Meteorological Research

This paper is a review of the recent development of researches on the stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). In particular, we will review recent studies that attempt to ...

tinyurl.com

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

2/ The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) transports huge amounts of heat & salt north from the tropics & returns cold water south at depth – the Atlantic heat engine.

It shapes climate & rainfall patterns across Europe, Africa, the Americas & global ecosystems
tinyurl.com/2xu6x2ja

Observations, inferences, and mechanisms of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: A review

Intra-annual AMOC variability is large and forced by the wind Decadal AMOC variability is associated with density variations on the ocean boundaries The subtropical-subpolar transition zone is a pa...

tinyurl.com

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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Ade Martin @ademartindc.bsky.social · Aug 23

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

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 19

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 19

🌊 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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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 11

❝ 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

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 10

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 🥼❄️🌊

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Aug 11

❝ 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

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CC🇨🇦🍁 @collycee.bsky.social · Jul 17

It’s been so smoky grey here I’m missing these sunsets 🌅 #sunset

Pink orange clouds at sunset over a silhouetted treed landscape

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Jun 3

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

Penn Libraries Book
Prize in Sustainability This annual award acknowledges outstanding contributions to the global discourse on environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on books that have a substantial impact on the public's understanding of these
crucial issues.

Announcing the 2025 Shortlist
The following books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Penn Libraries Book
Prize in Sustainability.

Climate Capitalism, Akshat Rathi
Into the Clear Blue Sky, Rob Jackson
The Language of Climate Politics, Genevieve Guenther
Total Garbage, Edward Humes

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Jun 18

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Jun 18

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · Jun 18

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
👉 bit.ly/climtip-webi...

#ClimateTippingPoints #ClimateScience

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