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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System

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🌍 Embracing uncertainty in the science of tipping points & their impacts 🌊 Polar ice sheets, Amazon rainforest, Atlantic Ocean Currents (AMOC) 🔬 Funded by the European Union No.101137601 👇 Follow for latest science, webinars & updates

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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📞☎️ Ocean currents, monsoons, rainforests, ice sheets – all talk to each other Anna von der Heydt @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social explains how #climatetippingelements interact using paleoclimate clues Today 6 Oct @ 2pm CEST Join us here bit.ly/climtip-webi... #ClimTip #ClimateScience #TippingPoints
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
⁉️ How do we study climate events we may've never observed before? Next #ClimTip webinar Freddy Bouchet @cnrs.fr @normalesup.bsky.social explores how new maths, rare-event simulations & machine learning can help understand climate extremes & tipping points. 👉 1 Sep | 2PM CEST bit.ly/climtip-webi...
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
❓What does an ice sheet have to do with a city block? We’re discussing the global & the local in one space! Join us for a collective thought experiment on urban adaptation & climate tipping points! Next Wed 26 August 19:00 Gans Woanders, Munich @tum.de @climtip.bsky.social @bayfor.org
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
What'd happen if we managed to limit global warming to around 2°C—but the AMOC still underwent a major weakening? Join us today bit.ly/climtip-webi... with @froeltho.bsky.social on impacts of #AMOC collapse under 2°C scenario! 📅 7 July, 2–3pm CEST #ClimateScience #ClimTip @unibe.ch #TippingPoints
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Polar ice – 100Ks years of climate history. Changed in a few human lifetimes? As we heat the planet, ice sheets are pushed to melt irreversibly. But it gets trickier @ricarda-winkelmann.bsky.social talks 3 types of tipping in #Greenland & #Antarctica Join 5 May 2-3PM CEST ‼️ bit.ly/climtip-webi...
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
❓When tipping causes tipping Ocean currents, monsoons, rainforests, ice sheets – all talk to each other Next week Anna von der Heydt @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social explains how such #climatetippingelements interact using paleoclimate clues🧩 Join us 3 Mar 2–3pm CET bit.ly/climtip-webi... #ClimTip
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🥵 2024 El Niño pushed us over 1.5°C, making it the hottest year on record: heatwaves floods hunger for +110 mln people $3.4 trn in costs Could such extremes trigger tipping points too? @aromanou.bsky.social #NASA explains in next #ClimTipWebinar Join 👉 3 Feb 2–3pm CET bit.ly/climtip-webi...
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
🪾Large parts of the #Amazon face savanna-like dry seasons if deforestations levels reach 25%. In the next #ClimTip webinar #JuliaPongratz @lmumuenchen.bsky.social talks about the state and future of the rainforest from the latest findings. 👉 Join on 2 Dec 2025 at 2–3pm CET bit.ly/climtip-webi...
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
⚖️ Most scientists agree #Greenland melt will likely tip the Atlantic currents, but can the #WestAntarcticIceSheet melt stabilize it? Sacha Sinet @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social shares his findings soon to appear in @science.org #AMOC Join #ClimTipWebinar 4 Nov 2-3pm CET 🔗 bit.ly/climtip-webi...
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
📈 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 · 01/10/2025
⚠️ 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 #ClimTip @tum.de @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
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 · 26/08/2025
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 · 26/08/2025
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 · 19/08/2025
🌊 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 🔗 bit.ly/climtip-webi...
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🌍 How do #ClimateTippingPoints fit into the #PlanetaryBoundaries framework? Dr. Levke Caesar from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social explains it all in the next ClimTip Webinar. 📅 Join us 3 June, 2025, 2–3PM CEST 🔗 bit.ly/climtip-webi... #ClimTip #TippingPoints #EarthSystemScience #AMOC
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
⚠️🐠 How would AMOC or Subpolar Gyre collapse reshape marine life? Join next #ClimTip webinar with Amber Boot @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social to learn how shifting ocean currents can impact marine life. 
📅 6 May 2–3 PM CEST 🔗 Join here bit.ly/climtip-webi... #ClimateTippingPoints #AMOC #ClimateChange
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
👋 Paris welcomes #ClimTip and #TipESM with a perfect April weather for the joint annual conference 2025 hosted at Institut Henri Poincaré! We look forward to lively exchanges between researchers working on #ClimateTippingPoints in the Earth system! @climtip.bsky.social @tipesm.bsky.social
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
💺 #ClimTip heads to Paris for a joint annual conference on #ClimateTippingPoints with our friends at @tipesm.bsky.social Greenland to the Amazon, Antarctica to the AMOC, we’ll be digging into the science that matters—& what it means for policy & action. 7–10 April, Paris More tinyurl.com/3fh2pvb9
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
⚠️ How close are we to climate tipping points? Thursday, Mar 27 at 7-9pm — join us at #BarrioOlgaBenario for a hands-on workshop! We’ll talk about: 🧠 What tipping points actually are 💬 How to communicate urgency without losing hope 🤝 A space to share, ask, connect! See more: tinyurl.com/22pducb3
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What happens if the Atlantic Ocean currents come to a halt? How certain are these projections? Join this @climtip.bsky.social webinar with Maya Ben-Yami from @tum.de on AMOC collapse – impacts and uncertainties. 📆 1 April, 20252:00–3:00 pm CET Webinar link: bit.ly/climtip-webi... #AMOC #ClimTip
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨 The Atlantic ocean currents may be closer to a tipping point than we thought. Next webinar Yechul Shin @seoulnatluniv.bsky.social talks about detecting what many climate models might be missing – the approaching tipping of the AMOC. 👉 Join bit.ly/climtip-webi... 📍 Tue, Mar 4, 2PM–3PM 📷 NASA
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
📚 Four PhD/postdoc positions open at LMU in Munich on climate modeling & forests/terrestrial ecosystems. • Research fellow (up to 6 yr) • Postdoctoral researcher • 2 x PhD positions See details: www.geo.lmu.de/geographie/e... More lnkd.in/grVkSAhF #ClimTip Photo by #DavidClode @unsplash.com
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
5/ Using a simplified climate tipping model, the study finds that polar ice sheets dominate the uncertainty in tipping point projections. At 1.5°C warming, without including ice sheets, models might miss up to half (‼️) of the tipping points that would otherwise be predicted.
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
❓Did you know that many climate models—the ones we rely on for future planning—have a serious blind spot and may be overconfident. A new study in @commsearth.bsky.social reveals why this is a problem. And it’s all about polar ice sheets and climate tipping points. 1/🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Image of a polar ice sheet. Photo credit: Povl Abrahamsen
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Melt rivers are running faster in Greenland. Join next #ClimTip webinar. #AlexanderRobinson from AWI-Potsdam will give the big picture on the stability of the #Greenland ice sheet. 📍 Tue, Feb 4, 2PM–3PM 👉 Follow the link: bit.ly/climtip-webi... #climatescience #tippingpoints #climatechange
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ClimTip | Climate Tipping Points in the Earth System @climtip.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We have a Postdoc Position at the University of Florence! 🌳 Climate-related tipping points in forest ecosystems (3 yr, extendable to 6) 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Jan 2025, 1pm CET 📌 Details (English at the end): tinyurl.com/yproject-call 📝 Apply: tinyurl.com/yproject-apply Spread the word! #ClimTip #hiring
Majestic male Orangutan sitting among in a forest floor grass, Borneo.

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