Wednesday · 18:00 - 20:00
Nørrebro, Copenhagen
Exact venue shared with ticket holders
How Close Are We to a Climate Tipping Point?
What Greenland's ice, ocean currents, and early-warning signals can tell us about abrupt climate change.
With Peter Ditlevsen Professor of climate physics at the Niels Bohr Institute
About the evening
The Gulf Stream helps keep Denmark mild. But the climate does not always change slowly: Greenland's ice shows that it has flipped in the past, sometimes within just a few decades.
Climate physicist Peter Ditlevsen asks whether the ocean currents that warm Northern Europe could switch off again, and how scientists would see it coming. He explains what tipping points are, why abrupt climate change matters, and what early-warning signals can and cannot tell us.
This evening is a clear, urgent introduction to one of climate science's most consequential questions: how close might we be to a major tipping point, and what would it mean if the Atlantic current system began to fail?
- Climate
- Tipping points
- Ocean currents
The speaker
Peter Ditlevsen
Professor of climate physics at the Niels Bohr Institute
Peter Ditlevsen is a professor of climate physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. He studies abrupt climate change and the early-warning signals that come before it. In 2023, he co-authored a widely discussed study warning that the Atlantic current system could collapse this century.
How the evening unfolds
- Doors open and the bar is ready
- Talk begins
- Short break
- Audience questions and conversation
- Evening ends