How Close is the Point of No Return?

Will our climate suddenly tip if we continue with business as usual? If so, how soon could it come? How fast would it happen? And what would the consequences be? Niklas Boers, Professor of Earth System Modeling at TUM, is working with his team to find answers, applying mathematical methods to describe how the Earth’s climate works. The researchers use past climate data to test their models and try to produce forecasts. For his part, TUM mathematician Prof. Christian Kuehn makes sure that the entire project is on a sound theoretical footing.     «

Will our climate suddenly tip if we continue with business as usual? If so, how soon could it come? How fast would it happen? And what would the consequences be? Niklas Boers, Professor of Earth System Modeling at TUM, is working with his team to find answers, applying mathematical methods to describe how the Earth’s climate works. The researchers use past climate data to test their models and try to produce forecasts. For his part, TUM mathematician Prof. Christian Kuehn makes sure that the ent...     »