The Climate Tipping Point and Timeline ... Accelerated

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The climate is fast approaching a dangerous tipping point, now a policy tipping point is urgently needed if we are to head off catastrophe

Discussions of our proximity to a "global tipping point" on climate have now become commonplace. Today the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is about 385 parts per million - more than...

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