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Irreversible 'hothouse' state causing drought and wildfires, says study It found the earth was heading for a tipping point, known as a "hothouse" climate, which could lead to average temperatures up to 5C higher than pre-industrial temperatures and rises in sea level of between 10 and 60 metres. This could all happen in a few decades.

"Hothouse Earth is likely to be uncontrollable and risky to many", stated the article.

The report says that if the "threshold" - a theoretical point-of-no-return - is crossed, this "would lead to a much higher global average temperature than any interglacial in the past 1.2 million years and to sea levels significantly higher than at any time in the Holocene", referring to the geological age which began at the end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago.

Scientists believe if global temperatures exceed that level, climate change will become "dangerous", threatening to existence of some nations with rising sea levels.

Essentially, parts of the earth would become uninhabitable, sea levels would rise dramatically and a whole host of other problems would emerge in a domino effect. According to the researchers, keeping global warming to within 1.5-2 degrees Celsius may be more hard than previously assessed.

The report notes that a 2 C temperature gain for the Earth could activate "important tipping elements" that would raise the temperature of the planet even higher creating a domino effect that could take the Earth to even higher temperatures.

Phenomena such as wildfires are equally worrisome to experts.

During the Cretaceous period, the era of the dinosaurs some 100 million years ago, Carbon dioxide levels were even higher at 1,000 ppm, largely due to volcanic activity. Currently, Earth is at 400 ppm. Some admit that while the new work is "rather selective" the results of the study aren't "outlandish". This threshold might be enough to trigger other processes that, in turn, will keep driving up temperatures even in the absence of new emissions, the authors report.

Land and coastal conservation alongside soil management with improved farming practices were also among the suggestions.



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