PERSPECTIVE Correction for “Tipping elements in the Earth System,” by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, which appeared in issue 49, December 8, 2009, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (106:20561–20563; first published December 7, 2009; 10.1073/pnas.0911106106).
Because of a printer error, an incorrect version of this article was published in the print issue; the online version appears correctly.