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Failure to Slow Warming Will Set Off Climate ‘Tipping Points,’ Scientists Say

Henry Fountain writes: Failure to limit global warming to the targets set by international accords will most likely set off several climate “tipping points,” a team of scientists said on Thursday, with irreversible effects including the collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, abrupt thawing of Arctic permafrost and the death of coral reefs.

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