Status: 01/25/2023 09:30 a.m There are tipping points not only in the climate system, but also in climate protection. Scientists are researching whether street blockades or protests can be turning points in combating the climate crisis. By Yasmin Appelhans, NDR At some point, according to climate researcher Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter, he had enough of only delivering bad news. Because his actual field of research is and was the tipping elements of the climate. In other words,...
Around a quarter of the forest in the Amazon Basin has been severely degraded or cleared, and parts of the region may have already passed a tipping point. NGOs are now proposing radical countermeasures. Can this work?When a system reaches a tipping point, everything changes quite suddenly and nothing is the same. Researchers are now wondering whether the Amazon rainforest is also in the process of tipping over and could irrevocably transform itself into a savannah landscape. source site
Status: 11/13/2022 11:18 am Researchers have identified 16 tipping points in the climate system. In an interview, the polar researcher Winkelmann explains what these mechanisms are and why some of them could be triggered from a global warming of 1.5 degrees. tagesschau.de: The Paris climate agreement aims to ensure that our earth does not warm up to more than 2 and if possible not more than 1.5 degrees. You write in one Study shows that there is already a risk...
Status: 11/12/2022 03:56 am In the US, the stalemate over congressional control continues after the midterms. While the Senate race is still being counted in Nevada, it is clear in Georgia that there will be a runoff election in December. By Nina Barth, ARD Studio Washington "Lord, we trust in You to ensure our votes confirm Senator Warnock in office," prays a group of Democrats in Atlanta. Many black supporters of Democrat Raphael Warnock are concerned that Republican Herschel Walker...
Of Jan Diesteldorf and Max Hägler, Munich/FrankfurtPerhaps Andriy Melnyk is not the worst indicator to make the economic situation in Ukraine clear in this country. When you met the Ukrainian ex-ambassador in Berlin, he was usually surrounded by a small entourage, he wore his tie very correctly and kept an eye on his briefcase. These days, however, Andriy Melnyk is more likely to be seen in sportswear, as photos on his communication channel Twitter bear witness to: he now wears...
Status: 10/15/2022 09:02 a.m Up to a million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction in just a few decades. Experts are already warning of tipping points for the ecosystem. What dangers are there - and what can we do about them? What is a tipping point in species extinction? Tipping points are often mentioned in connection with the climate crisis. The melting of the ice sheets or the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest are described as such, for...
“Herds that come down from the summer pastures much earlier because there is nothing left to eat up there. Or hikers desperately looking for famous waterfalls reduced to a drip, or even a "place where the water still flows". This heartbreaking spectacle, Dirk Schmeller and Adeline Loyau, researchers of the Functional ecology and environment laboratory of Toulouse* (LEFE), attended this summer, during their traditional campaigns in the Pyrenees. Not particularly surprised.Co-sign our article "Scientists' warning of threats to mountains" and...
environment The first climate tipping points could be reached by 2030 A farmer from Brandenburg drives over his dry field. There was no rain for many weeks. photo © Patrick Pleul/dpa Melting ice sheets, dying coral reefs, thawing permafrost: at a certain point, climate damage is irreversible - and that could happen sooner than expected. Four tipping points for the global climate could be reached by 2030. This is the result of an analysis by an international group of climate...
Of Benjamin von BrackelIf you want to spread a bad mood, you only have to drop the term "tipping points". If the world warms above certain thresholds, this could trigger a self-reinforcing process in parts of the Earth system, leading to the system in question irreversibly tipping into a completely new state - with drastic consequences. Above a certain temperature, for example, the kilometer-thick Greenland ice sheet melts so much that its highest point is lower and lower and thus...
If you give a good tip after a princely meal in a restaurant, you can be sure that the waiter will thank you. But what about tipping in Germany? In March 2022, Jägermeister, in cooperation with the market research institute Kantar, surveyed around 1,500 people between the ages of 18 and 49 on the subject of tips. Most of them are consumers, but also individual professional groups such as bartenders, restaurateurs and taxi drivers. You can find out how much...
