{"624847":{"#nid":"624847","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Will I be able to tell when we\u2019ve reached a climate tipping point?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat is the full list of climate tipping points for melting ice, permafrost, etc.? And what\u0026rsquo;s the best guess of when each becomes irreversible? ... \u0026ldquo;Is it too late for the coral reefs that died in 2016 due to ocean warming? Yes, it\u0026rsquo;s too late, they\u0026rsquo;re not coming back. It\u0026rsquo;s too late for a lot of Arctic melt, for the Greenland ice sheet that\u0026rsquo;s fallen into the ocean, it\u0026rsquo;s too late for quite a few important things,\u0026rdquo; said \u003Cstrong\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/strong\u003E, paleoclimatologist and director of the Global Change program at Georgia Tech. \u0026ldquo;But it\u0026rsquo;s not too late to avert the worst kind of ugly surprises that come from pushing the accelerator down on a geological system that we know has not responded steadily.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-08-20 18:07:53","changed_gmt":"2019-08-20 18:07:53","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"book review editor","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/grist.org\/article\/will-i-be-able-to-tell-when-weve-reached-a-climate-tipping-point\/","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"612888":{"id":"612888","type":"image","title":"Kim Cobb","body":null,"created":"1539793709","gmt_created":"2018-10-17 16:28:29","changed":"1539793709","gmt_changed":"2018-10-17 16:28:29","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233326","name":"Kim Cobb.sketch.sq250.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Kim%20Cobb.sketch.sq250.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Kim%20Cobb.sketch.sq250.png","mime":"image\/png","size":119757,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Kim%20Cobb.sketch.sq250.png?itok=kVK5skPb"}}},"media_ids":["612888"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}