We Are Entering an Unstable Period - Tim Lenton

📺This channel is 100% independent. Please consider helping us here: https://fr.tipeee.com/circular-metabolism-podcast There is an essential and yet poorly understood concept in climate science: tipping points. Several climate tipping points (such as the ice loss in Greenland and Antarctica or the slowdown of the Atlantic circulation) are dangerously close and run the risk of triggering a "tipping cascade". To understand these risks and know how to keep us in a safe space through positive tipping points, we are talking with Professor Tim Lenton. Tim Lenton is Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter. 🔷 CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 05:33 The Earth system 11:18 Vital signs of the system 15:28 Tipping points 29:00 Irreversibility 32:34 Civilizational tipping points 35:08 Early warning signals 38:31 Socio-ecological tipping points 44:19 Positive tipping points 🔷 REFERENCES Recommended books: • Gaia, a new look at life on earth (1979) James Lovelock • The Ages of Gaia (1988), James Lovelock Scientific articles: • Lenton's tipping points article (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0 • Planetary boundaries: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html • Social tipping points (the "25% rule"): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29880688/ 🔷 MAIN TAKEAWAYS • Map of the tipping elements (HD): https://i.ibb.co/DbKqshq/elements.png 2 main views: • Object (thing) perspective: seeing the system's elements as static and well defined (better spatial accuracy, worse temporal fidelity) • Process perspective: seeing the system's elements as changing and interconnected (better temporal fidelity, worse spatial accuracy) Types of feedback loops: • Damping feedback (provides stability) • Amplifying feedback (creates possible instability) Types of cycles: • Real cycles made of material flows • Causal cycles made of causal chains between events Tipping point: • Threshold of an amplifying feedback loop beyond which change becomes self-propelling • Happen when the damping feedbacks get weaker than the amplifying feedbacks (variability increases) 🎤 Interview: Aristide Athanassiadis 🎞️ Editing: https://codexprod.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🔷 LINKS 👀 Youtube: https://youtu.be/_ZrErfqDwTA 💌 Newsletter: https://www.circularmetabolism.com/ 👂 iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/circular-metabolism-podcast/id1455115320 👂 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/13qH9Oj4b0yF0dBidGAdFR 🙏 Tipeee: https://fr.tipeee.com/circular-metabolism-podcast