Most of us have enjoyed swings in childhood. Some have even tried to swing faster and make a full 360 degrees’ loop. Those who succeeded had a very strange feeling of not being able to predict whether, increasing the energy of the swing, the transition from normal oscillations and 360 loops would happen. Indeed, there is an energy threshold such that the swing goes from oscillations to full loops ...[Read More]
Abrupt Warming could bring our planet a “Hothouse Earth” with catastrophic consequences for our economy and society
Global map of potential tipping cascades. The individual tipping elements are color-coded according to estimated thresholds in global average surface temperature (Source: W. Steffen et al., Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (33), 8252-8259, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1810141115, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810141115 . License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .
