The Economist

SCRI’s research on climate tipping points has been featured in The Economist.

The article, “Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points,” highlights the growing body of evidence on how close the planet is to critical thresholds, and includes SCRI’s work in this field.

An excerpt from the article can be found below:

“Laurie Laybourn, who leads the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative, a
British think-tank, agrees. “The mental model of the climate threat among key
people—particularly in senior parts of government—has yet to catch up with the
fact that the nature of the climate threat includes things like tipping points,” he
says. In his view, no government is considering scenarios like ice-sheet collapse
with the seriousness aforded to other high-impact risks, such as pandemics. In
fact, Mr Laybourn reckons, with the possible exception of the Nordic countries,
most governments have not really been thinking about them at all.”