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What Will Earth Look Like When These 6 Tipping Points Hit?
Season 3 Episode 5 | 13m 28s
| Video has closed captioning.
A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically. This can be a chair falling backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing. The IPCC recently identified 15 potential climate-related tipping points that scientists have grown increasingly worried we are getting close to crossing.
