Alarmist Climate 'Scientists' Inadvertently Reveal the Likely Source of their Inspiration - Alcohol
Rockstrom and Lenton are well known for pushing the climate ‘tipping points'/tipping elements’ scam to promote action on an alleged ‘climate crisis’.
Here is what the climate fanatical Graun says about their latest ‘study’:
World on brink of five ‘disastrous’ climate tipping points, study finds
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping points, according to a major study.
It shows five dangerous tipping points may already have been passed due to the 1.1C of global heating caused by humanity to date.
These include the collapse of Greenland’s ice cap, eventually producing a huge sea level rise, the collapse of a key current in the north Atlantic, disrupting rain upon which billions of people depend for food, and an abrupt melting of carbon-rich permafrost.
At 1.5C of heating, the minimum rise now expected, four of the five tipping points move from being possible to likely, the analysis said. Also at 1.5C, an additional five tipping points become possible, including changes to vast northern forests and the loss of almost all mountain glaciers.
“This sets Earth on course to cross multiple dangerous tipping points that will be disastrous for people across the world. To maintain liveable conditions on Earth and enable stable societies, we must do everything possible to prevent crossing tipping points.”
Dr David Armstrong McKay at the University of Exeter, a lead author of the study, said: “It’s really worrying. There are grounds for grief, but there are also still grounds for hope.
“The study really underpins why the Paris agreement goal of 1.5C is so important and must be fought for.
“We’re not saying that, because we’re probably going to hit some tipping points, everything is lost and it’s game over. Every fraction of a degree that we stop beyond 1.5C reduces the likelihood of hitting more tipping points.”
OMG! Here we go again. Episode Zillion and One of the long running climate disaster series funded by billionaire Great Resetters. Note the blatant political posturing by the authors. They don’t even pretend to be doing unbiased scientific investigations anymore. They’ve been paid to push an agenda via ‘scientific research’ and they are going to push it. The rest is just so nauseatingly familiar, it’s hardly worth repeating. Masochists can read the whole article if they want.
Here’s a flavour of the ‘science’ on offer in their latest paper published in the not so prestigious Science journal:
Climate tipping points (CTPs) are a source of growing scientific, policy, and public concern. They occur when change in large parts of the climate system—known as tipping elements—become self-perpetuating beyond a warming threshold. Triggering CTPs leads to significant, policy-relevant impacts, including substantial sea level rise from collapsing ice sheets, dieback of biodiverse biomes such as the Amazon rainforest or warm-water corals, and carbon release from thawing permafrost. Nine policy-relevant tipping elements and their CTPs were originally identified by Lenton et al. (2008). We carry out the first comprehensive reassessment of all suggested tipping elements, their CTPs, and the timescales and impacts of tipping. We also highlight steps to further improve understanding of CTPs, including an expert elicitation, a model intercomparison project, and early warning systems leveraging deep learning and remotely sensed data.
Since the original identification of tipping elements there have been substantial advances in scientific understanding from paleoclimate, observational, and model-based studies. Additional tipping elements have been proposed (e.g., parts of the East Antarctic ice sheet) and the status of others (e.g., Arctic summer sea ice) has been questioned. Observations have revealed that parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet may have already passed a tipping point. Potential early warning signals of the Greenland ice sheet, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and Amazon rainforest destabilization have been detected. Multiple abrupt shifts have been found in climate models. Recent work has suggested that up to 15 tipping elements are now active (Lenton et al., 2019). Hence it is timely to synthesize this new knowledge to provide a revised shortlist of potential tipping elements and their CTP thresholds.
Just waffle mainly but note the reliance upon modelling (again!) and the ‘may’, ‘potential’ and ‘suggested’ buzzwords.
Our assessment provides strong scientific evidence for urgent action to mitigate climate change.
No, it doesn’t. It’s the usual pseudoscientific claptrap based on modelling and second-guesses informed only by the unscientific application of the Precautionary principle in order to push a policy agenda. That is all. But not quite all. I suggest the opening paragraph above reveals that the source of their scientific inspiration is probably to be found at the bottom of a whisky or wine glass!
Thanks for speaking up about this!