BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:86@cumberland-geol-soc.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240207T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240207T193000 DTSTAMP:20240129T152658Z URL:https://www.cumberland-geol-soc.org.uk/events/tipping-positive-change- to-avoid-climate-tipping-points/ SUMMARY:Tipping positive change to avoid climate tipping points DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 7th February 2024. At 19.30 Meeting opens 10 minutes before.\nZoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88260221231?pwd=taLjj88UbbL dPmRLW77OkPkAuwR0nT.1 (Telephone options at the end of the event details)\ nProf. Tim Lenton\, Exeter University. \n\nTipping points in climate scien ce normally refer to small changes in the Earth system that unleash much b roader\, typically damaging impacts that accelerate climate change. Well-k nown examples are rising sea levels due to disintegration of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets\, or the release of methane from the thawin g permafrost. They help to underline the urgency of climate action. Today most people understand we must reduce emissions - and very quickly.\n\n\n\ nThis evening Tim will summarise recent evidence regarding climate tipping points\, which supports declarations that we are in a ‘climate emergenc y’. Then he will turn to identifying positive social tipping points that will need to be triggered to have any hope of limiting global warming to well below 2C.\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\nTim Lenton is Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at Exeter University. His 25 years of research i ncludes developing models to understand the Earth’s behaviour. He co-aut hored the “Planetary Boundaries” framework and is renowned for his wor k identifying climate tipping points. He won the European Geosciences Unio n Outstanding Young Scientist Award in\n\n\n\n2006 and subsequently many o ther prestigious awards. He is in the top 100 Reuters “Hot List” of th e worlds top climate scientists so is good at communicating his extensive knowledge.\n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 882 6022 1231 Passcode: 154012 Dial by your location • +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom • +44 203 481 5237 United K ingdom • +1 507 473 4847 US • +1 564 217 2000 US • +1 204 272 7920 C anada • +1 438 809 7799 Canada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR