12 global "tipping point" places

Ian Sample reports in The Guardian about some crucial parts of the Earth where climate change may emerge in its most disruptive form. He uses only one named source, John Schellnhuber of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and some of his facts are shaky (the Tibetan Plateau is not an ice cap; the Larsen B ice shelf is not part of the West Antarctic ice sheet), but there's much good information to digest. Read it here.