Tipping point

  Tipping point is the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place.
   
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 The most straightforward way to better integrate tipping points into IAMs would be to increase the steepness of the demage function.


The consequences for a stock like caterpillar are just a lot more severe than most when investors sense that tipping point.