Climate tipping points, illustration

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Climate tipping points, illustration. A tipping point is a threshold beyond which there are self-perpetuating irreversible changes to the Earth's climate system. These tipping points including melting of ice sheets, glaciers and permafrosts, the destruction of rainforests, forests and coral reefs and the collapse of oceanic and atmospheric currents. For an unlabelled version of this image see C057/3975.

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Photo credit: © KARSTEN SCHNEIDER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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