{"id":165,"date":"2022-08-24T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/?page_id=165"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T12:58:49","slug":"2-8-the-snowball-has-been-set-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/endnotes\/how-our-planet-is-changing\/2-8-the-snowball-has-been-set-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"2.8 The snowball has been set in motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"notes\">\n<p class=\"author\"><a href=\"\/contributors#greta-thunberg\" rel=\"author\">Greta Thunberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">All online sources accessed on <time datetime=\"2022-04-04\">4 April 2022<\/time><\/p>\n<ol start=\"72\">\n<li>\n<p><q>the tipping points \u2026 have already been passed<\/q> Berardelli, J., <cite>\u2018Climate tipping points may have been reached already, experts say\u2019<\/cite>, CBS News, 26 April 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/climate-change-tipping-points-amazon-rainforest-antarctic-ice-gulf-stream\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/climate-change-tipping-points-amazon-rainforest-antarctic-ice-gulf-stream\/<\/a>; Lhermitte, S., et al., <cite>\u2018Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen sea embayment\u2019<\/cite>, <span class=\"book\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/span>, 117 (40), 2020: 24735\u201341, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1912890117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.1912890117<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/sep\/08\/world-on-brink-five-climate-tipping-points-study-finds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/sep\/08\/world-on-brink-five-climate-tipping-points-study-finds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-020-0001-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-020-0001-2.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><q>Other reports say they are imminent<\/q> Boers, N., and Rypdal, M., <cite>\u2018Critical slowing down suggests that the western Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a tipping point\u2019<\/cite>, <span class=\"book\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/span>, 118 (21), 2021: Article e2024192118, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2024192118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2024192118<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2024192118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2024192118<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><q>one third of the ice mass will be lost<\/q> Wester, P., et al., eds., <cite><span class=\"book\">The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment: Mountains, Climate Change, Sustainability and People<\/span><\/cite>(Cham: Springer, 2019), <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-92288-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-319-92288-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Thunberg All online sources accessed on 4 April 2022 the tipping points \u2026 have already been passed Berardelli, J., \u2018Climate tipping points may have been reached already, experts say\u2019, CBS News, 26 April 2021, https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/climate-change-tipping-points-amazon-rainforest-antarctic-ice-gulf-stream\/; Lhermitte, S., et al., \u2018Damage accelerates ice shelf instability and mass loss in Amundsen sea embayment\u2019, Proceedings of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-essay.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theclimatebook.org\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}