The Math of Climate Change Tipping Points | NYGazet

Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 million years into the past. Back then, some scientists... [2688 chars]