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- Title
Climate change tipping points: origins, precursors, and debates.
- Authors
Russill, Chris
- Abstract
The article reviews the origins, precursors, and main proponents of climate change tipping points, and the debates that the tipping point concept has occasioned. The importance of dynamical systems theory, GAIA theory, and abrupt climate change to the main proponents of tipping point warning systems is noted and situated in historical context. The 'semantic confusion' that animates contemporary debates, it is suggested, results not simply from a narrow conception of tipping points, but from inattention to the way metaphor was used to reshape climate policy. A deeper understanding of dynamical systems theory and its origins (both mathematical and metaphorical) is recommended for addressing the value of tipping points in policy. WIREs Clim Change 2015, 6:427-434. doi: 10.1002/wcc.344 For further resources related to this article, please visit the . Conflict of interest: The author has declared no conflicts of interest for this article.
- Subjects
GAIA hypothesis; CLIMATE change; ECOPHILOSOPHY; CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICAL systems; LAW
- Publication
WIREs: Climate Change, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 4, p427
- ISSN
1757-7780
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wcc.344