Potential Tipping Points

Figure 34.24

This figure appears in chapter 34 of the Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment report.

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Stylized map of potential policy-relevant tipping elements in the Earth’s climate system overlain on population density. Question marks indicate systems whose status as tipping elements is particularly uncertain. (Figure source: adapted from Lenton et al. 200817)

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