June 2023 was – from a global perspective – the warmest ever recorded and could go down in history as the start of a permanent change in the global climate. Researchers fear that the heat — exacerbated by the El Niño weather phenomenon — could be a sign that climate systems are transitioning to and persisting in a new state. The first tipping points seem to have been reached.
These are threshold values that lead to abrupt and irreversible changes in the climate and increase global warming. Consequences include the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, the extinction of the Amazon rainforest, the thawing of the Siberian permafrost and the collapse of the Gulf Stream. Reaching the tipping points would have catastrophic consequences: rising sea levels, extreme weather conditions due to changing precipitation patterns, forest fires and heat islands. And they seem to be happening already.
Source: Krone
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