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Colloquium: Christopher K.R.T. Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Do We Need to Adapt to a Changing Climate, or to the Rate at Which it is Changing?
Colloquium: Christopher K.R.T. Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Do We Need to Adapt to a Changing Climate, or to the Rate at Which it is Changing?
The climate is changing due to the heat trapping caused by the rapid increase in greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. One way to state the issue is that we cannot, as a species, adapt to the new conditions quickly enough. This is an example of rate-induced tipping for which the mathematics has…