Scientists have listed 4 factors that will irrevocably change the climate on Earth

Climatologists from the University of Exeter in the UK heldExceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points / Science a meta-analysis of more than 200 studies, examining 16 climate tipping points, and choosing four key factors from them that will irreversibly affect the situation on Earth:

• the melting of the Greenland ice sheet;
• the disappearance of tropical coral reefs;
• the melting of permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere and the release of greenhouse gases found in frozen soil;
• destruction of the West Antarctic ice sheets.

According to scientists, these events can occur if the average temperature of the Earth's climate system rises by more than 1.5 ° C. But according to some forecasts by climatologists, the current environmental situation could lead to warming as much as 2.7 ° C compared to the pre-industrial period.

Nevertheless, the authors of the study hope that humanity still has the opportunity to avoid the irreparable consequences of global warming. Now people are completely unprepared for the worst-case scenario, when the whole world will have to adapt to new living conditions, the scientists added.

Despite the fact that the theory of climate tipping points has existed for more than a decade, so far the world has not conducted such global meta-analyses as presented by British scientists.