tipping element

Meaning

Noun

• Large-scale components of the Earth climate system that may pass a tipping point.

Origin

• Introduced in a 2008 paper.{{cite-journal
• |lang=en
• |title=Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
• |author=Timothy M. Lenton
• |author2=Hermann Held
• |author3= Elmar Kriegler
• |author4=Jim W. Hall
• |author5=Wolfgang Lucht
• |author6=Stefan Rahmstorf
• |author7=Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
• |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
• |doi=10.1073/pnas.0705414105
• |date=2008-02-07