What Happens Next?

The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director in New York, Gavin Schmidt, is worried. The 2023 temperature anomaly (the fact that the planet has heated up much more quickly than scientists had expected) concerns him. Schmidt suggests, in a paper in the journal Nature, that global heating is now moving beyond the ability of experts to predict what happens next (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/15/we-should-have-better-answers-by-now-climate-scientists-baffled-by-unexpected-pace-of-heating). Perhaps we have already reached one of these famous 'tipping points'? 'Tipping points' are when changes become self-reinforcing and very difficult (impossible?) to reverse.