Geographies of Global Climate Tipping Points (CTPs) and Their Implications for the Planet Earth: A Bibliometric Review

Abstract

The burgeoning global phenomenon of climate change, coupled with the potential breach of critical climate tipping points (CTPs), has emerged as a paramount concern for the inhabitants of planet Earth. The deleterious impacts of global warming are increasingly manifesting across both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The cardinal objective of this scholarship is to investigate the geographies of CTPs and their implications for planet Earth. In this scholarly examination, a bibliometric review endeavors to elucidate the verifiable/ample evidence surrounding global warming and the hazardous state of CTPs. The methodology employed in this scholarship adheres to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) model, ensuring a systematic filtration and selection process for pertinent literature. Through a thorough sequence of identification, screening, and inclusion, materials such as manuscripts, news articles, and reports, all disseminated in the English language, were subjected to analysis. Stricter adherence to the study's predefined criteria led to the exclusion of inappropriate or tangentially related literature. The resultant dataset comprised 53 selected sources, distilled from an initial pool of 115 pieces. The outcomes of this comprehensive systematic literature review serve to underscore the incontrovertible evidence pertaining to the dangerous/risky status of CTPs. This examination bridges the gaps in the existing knowledge discourse of CTPs within the Sri Lankan context and its disaster risk reduction policy reforms (the author consider this as a pressing urgency), as an island country in the midst of the current global climate change crisis.