Artificial intelligence could reveal climate change's tipping points, act like early warning system

A number of experts believe the Earth is rapidly approaching its'tipping point' for reversing climate change, but researchers at Canada's University of Waterloo are creating artificial intelligence that could act as an'early warning system' against a runway threat to the planet. The deep learning algorithm was created to better predict the tipping points, while also understanding what happens after they have been reached, the study's co-author, Chris Bauch, a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo, said. 'Many of these tipping points are undesirable, and we'd like to prevent them if we can,' Bauch said in a statement. Canadian researchers are creating AI that could act as an'early warning system' against runway climate change. In May, scientists said there was a 40 percent chance that annual temperature rises would go beyond the the 1.5C (2.7F) set by the 2015 Paris Agreement.