Forecasting 'tipping points' with AI climate simulation

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Researchers are using AI climate simulations to forecast tipping points, when a climate system may cross a threshold into rapid or irreversible change. The work concerns risks such as global warming and polar ice melt.

The writer Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term "tipping points" to refer to the moment when a trend or social behavior crosses a threshold and rapidly spreads everywhere. In physics, tipping points occur when systems—say, Earth's climate—reach an unstable point and topple over into a sea of change that is sometimes irreversible. Examples include global warming or the melting of polar ice caps.