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Climate Tipping Cascades

Provided by: LabXchange |Published on: February 2, 2024
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  • This short video describes how a climate tipping cascade occurs when one system in the biosphere is pushed past its tipping point, which influences other systems, resulting in additional systems forced past their tipping points.
  • The narrator is a professor who gives an illustrative example of a melting Greenland ice sheet adding cool water to the Atlantic Ocean, thus slowing its currents and lowering the amount of rainfall in the Amazon Rainforest.
  • The narrator also references the concept of a positive feedback loop accelerating the Greenland ice sheet melting.
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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences
Authors: LabXchange
Region: Global
Languages: English

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