Editor's Summary
15 June 2006
What's the point?
The idea that passing a hidden threshold could drastically worsen man-made climate change has been current in the scientific literature for many years. Now it has a new name, a 'tipping point', and suddenly the news magazines and other media have picked up on it. Gabrielle Walker gets back to the science to ask whether the Arctic climate is really on the brink.
Editorial: Reaching a tipping point
A popular new paradigm for the nature of change pertains more to the social and political worlds than it does to the physical one.
doi:10.1038/441785a
News Feature: Climate change: The tipping point of the iceberg
Could climate change run away with itself? Gabrielle Walker looks at the balance of evidence.
doi:10.1038/441802a