Monday, 1 April 2024

#271: Tipping points

We are starting to see increasing evidence of what I always taught about when I first started teaching in the 1980s... tipping points being approached or reached where we change some aspect of a physical system into a new state which is irreversible.

This will have a dramatic impact on natural systems, and all life, as our food supply will also be impacted.

The one I always used to talk about was with respect to permafrost, which I used to teach about in the old Cambridge 'A' level, before all the hard physical stuff was taken out...

Visit the Global Tipping Points website to find out more about some of the tipping points.

And here's one on a recent full moon's name and why it may become irrelevant...


The soil is warming earlier... and worms are confused... 

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