Can someone ELI5 arctic tipping points or how close we are to runaway climate change?

cpriest
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:54:21 +0000

As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in CO2 emissions having no effect in the face of, say, runaway emissions of methane.

from this article: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as_arctic_ocean_ice_disappears_global_climate_impacts_intensify_wadhams

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