Sensitivity of collective action to uncertainty about climate tipping points

Scott Barrett () and Astrid Dannenberg
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Scott Barrett: Earth Institute and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Astrid Dannenberg: Earth Institute, Columbia University

Nature Climate Change, 2014, vol. 4, issue 1, 36-39

Abstract: Studies about early warning signals of a climate tipping point suggest that collective action to avoid a catastrophe will only take place if uncertainty about the threshold for dangerous climate change is reduced. An experiment now finds that behaviour changes dramatically either side of a dividing line for this threshold uncertainty—when uncertainty is only slightly larger, catastrophe is not averted.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2059

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