Tipping points - frequenlty mentioned, rarely understood

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ipping points are frequently mentioned during climate change discussions, but no one is able to accurately say “this is what will happen”.

The Saiga - dying in droves,
 climate change tipping
point or something else?

Will it be instantaneous; bringing massive changes to the world’s weather or will be it something subtle and seemingly unimportant in the greater scheme of things, having no noticeable impact on the world’s market system?

Should the latter be the case, then except for those immediately impacted, the event will pass largely unnoticed and the world community will continue on with its business as usual ways, unaware that a tipping point has been passed.

Half the world’s Saiga population has died in less than a month and so is that evidence of a climate change tipping point or is it something else?

These bizarre looking Ice Age antelopes once roamed Central Asia in the millions are now listed as critically endangered and although there is still uncertainty why they are dying at such an alarming rate, some believe it is because of differences in the Saiga’s living conditions brought upon by climate change.

Read the Mongabay.com story - “120,000 dead: half of the world's Saiga die in less than a month”.