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A study from the University of Hamburg's CLICCS suggests that the risk of climate tipping points, such as permafrost thaw and Amazon rainforest destruction triggering chain reactions, is lower than ...

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Current climate policy is insufficient. Learn how human emissions drive climate change and the consequences of inaction.