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Climate tipping point interactions and cascades: a review
Nico Wunderling
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Earth System Analysis and Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Anna S. von der Heydt
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Department of Physics, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Centre for Complex Systems Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Yevgeny Aksenov
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Stephen Barker
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Robbin Bastiaansen
Department of Physics, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Victor Brovkin
Department of Climate Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Maura Brunetti
Group of Applied Physics and Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Victor Couplet
Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Thomas Kleinen
Department of Climate Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Caroline H. Lear
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Johannes Lohmann
Physics of Ice, Climate and Earth, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta
European Commission, Joint Research Center, Sustainable Resources, Forests and Bioeconomy Unit., Ispra, Italy
Sacha Sinet
Department of Physics, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Centre for Complex Systems Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Didier Swingedouw
Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, France
Ricarda Winkelmann
Earth System Analysis and Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Pallavi Anand
School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Jonathan Barichivich
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
Sebastian Bathiany
Earth System Analysis and Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
Earth System Modelling, School of Engineering and Design, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
Mara Baudena
Centre for Complex Systems Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), CNR, Torino, Italy
National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy
John T. Bruun
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Cristiano M. Chiessi
School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Helen K. Coxall
Department of Geological Science, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
The Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden
David Docquier
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Jonathan F. Donges
Earth System Analysis and Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Swinda K. J. Falkena
Department of Physics, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht (IMAU), Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Ann Kristin Klose
Earth System Analysis and Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
David Obura
CORDIO East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya
Juan Rocha
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Anthropocene Laboratory, The Swedish Royal Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden
Stefanie Rynders
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
Norman Julius Steinert
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway
Matteo Willeit
Earth System Analysis and Complexity Science, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
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This paper maps out the state-of-the-art literature on interactions between tipping elements relevant for current global warming pathways. We find indications that many of the interactions between tipping elements are destabilizing. This means that tipping cascades cannot be ruled out on centennial to millennial timescales at global warming levels between 1.5 and 2.0 °C or on shorter timescales if global warming surpasses 2.0 °C.
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