»Die Erderwärmung hat den Punkt, an dem es kein Zurück mehr gibt, längst überschritten«
Studie im Fachjournal »Scientific Reports«, 12.11.2020 (engl. Originalfassung)
The risk of points-of-no-return, which, once surpassed lock the world into new dynamics, have been discussed for decades. Recently, there have been warnings that some of these tipping points are coming closer and are too dangerous to be disregarded. In this paper we report that in the ESCIMO climate model the world is already past a point-of-no-return for global warming. In ESCIMO we observe self-sustained melting of the permafrost for hundreds of years, even if global society stops all emissions of man-made GHGs immediately.