Global Tipping Points: What is a Tipping Point?
Professor Lenton, Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter, describes the amplifiers of global change also known as 'tipping points'.
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- Production Year 2023
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Synopsis
00:00:09 - 00:05:00 A tipping point is where a small change makes a big difference to a system\n00:05:02 - 00:10:10 because it triggers some processes within that system that amplify change\n00:10:12 - 00:12:06 turning it into something much bigger\n00:12:06 - 00:15:03 often more abrupt and really hard to reverse\n00:15:03 - 00:18:17 So one way to think about a tipping point is to lean back on a chair\n00:18:17 - 00:22:01 like the one I'm sat on and find that balance point\n00:22:01 - 00:25:00 where a tiny nudge one way or the other will make the difference\n00:00:25:00 - 00:27:00 between whether you are sprawled on your back on the floor\n00:27:00 - 00:28:23 or sat back upright again\n00:28:23 - 00:32:06 and at the tipping point, that becomes exponential\n00:32:06 - 00:34:02 it becomes self-propelling\n00:34:02 - 00:38:16 the change carries on by itself without us needing to keep pushing\n00:38:18 - 00:42:13 and that's a very powerful force of transformation that usually means the\n00:42:13 - 00:48:14 change is fast, accelerating all the time and ultimately very hard to reverse
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