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The 34 pages that link to Tipping points in the climate system, each with the reason it gives.

• Climate change mitigationRelated: Deep emissions cuts reduce the risk of triggering potentially irreversible changes.

• PaleoclimateRelated: Abrupt transitions in paleoclimate records help identify possible thresholds and feedbacks.

• Climate sensitivityRelated: Large-scale thresholds could add warming beyond estimates based on gradual feedbacks alone.

• ClimateRelated: Tipping points raise questions about abrupt and potentially difficult-to-reverse climate changes.

• Greenhouse gasRelated: Continued greenhouse-gas forcing can push vulnerable systems toward abrupt, persistent change.

• Tropical climateRelated: Potential ecosystem transitions in tropical forests raise questions about abrupt climate feedbacks.

• Environmental economicsRelated: Abrupt, potentially irreversible changes challenge models built around gradual damages.

• Climate modelingRelated: Some abrupt changes are difficult to represent or constrain in standard simulations.

• Aquatic ecosystemRelated: Some aquatic changes may accelerate after thresholds in temperature, oxygen, or ice cover are crossed.

• Climate change and fisheriesRelated: Abrupt ecosystem shifts could make fisheries changes difficult to reverse or forecast.

• Social cost of carbonRelated: Potential threshold damages are difficult to represent in models and may raise estimated marginal harm.

• Climate resilienceRelated: Abrupt shifts can exceed the capacity of ecosystems and societies to adapt incrementally.

• Forest carbon cycleRelated: Researchers examine whether some forest systems could cross thresholds that sharply reduce carbon storage.

• Climate riskRelated: Crossing a tipping point can create abrupt hazards that reshape long-term risk.

• Climate scienceRelated: Research assesses whether warming could trigger abrupt or difficult-to-reverse changes.

• Nonlinear dynamicsRelated: Nonlinear feedback can make gradual forcing trigger abrupt climate transitions.

• Climate change in AustraliaRelated: Scientists assess whether warming could trigger abrupt or difficult-to-reverse changes in vulnerable systems.

• ClimatologyRelated: Research examines whether some changes could accelerate or become difficult to reverse.

• Climate change and forestsRelated: Researchers assess whether forest loss could become self-reinforcing in some regions.

• Abrupt climate changeRelated: Crossing a threshold can trigger change far faster than the original forcing.

• Climate systemRelated: Some system changes can trigger abrupt transitions that are difficult to reverse.

• Climate change in IndonesiaRelated: The stability of tropical forests and peatlands matters for Indonesia’s carbon stores and ecosystems.

• William NordhausRelated: Potential abrupt changes test models that represent climate damages as gradual and smooth.

• Climate change in CanadaRelated: Potential abrupt shifts could alter risks affecting Canada, especially in the North.

• Climate change in the Middle East and North AfricaRelated: Potential abrupt changes could compound risks to ecosystems and water supplies.

• Climate variability and changeRelated: Some potential changes could become self-reinforcing and difficult to reverse.

• Effects of climate changeRelated: Some impacts may accelerate if vulnerable parts of the climate system cross thresholds.

• History of climate change scienceRelated: Research asks whether some changes could accelerate or become difficult to reverse.

• Politics of climate changeRelated: Their uncertain timing challenges political systems built around gradual planning and incremental targets.