🌎 TIPPING POINT SEASON
What if climate change isn’t simply about a planet getting warmer?
What if we are entering a period when multiple climate tipping points begin activating, interacting, and amplifying one another?
That is the argument behind the paper, “Tipping Point Season.”
The first tipping point season emerged in 2023–2024, when global temperatures exceeded +1.5°C for an extended period and nine major tipping points became observable.
Now, in 2026, the climate system is showing something even more important: connections.
A Pacific El Niño can influence atmospheric circulation. Atmospheric circulation can alter the Atlantic. Ocean changes can modify moisture, convection, and storms. Feedbacks propagate across the planet.
The climate system is not a collection of isolated parts.
It is one interconnected system.
And that changes how we should think about the 1.5°C threshold.
1.5°C is not a magical temperature at which everything suddenly changes.
It is a tripwire—a point beyond which the probability of triggering major tipping points increases, while feedbacks can begin accelerating, compounding, and cascading through the system.
The critical question is no longer simply:
“What happens as the planet gets warmer?”
It is:
“What happens as we cross the tripwires?”
🔥 Tipping Point Season explores what happens when climate feedbacks stop behaving like isolated processes and begin behaving like a coupled planetary network.
One planet. One interconnected climate system. And potentially, a season of tipping points.