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a critical threshold that when crossed leads to large, accelerating, and often irreversible changes in climate system
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amazon rainforest
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arctic sea ice
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at its weakest
more storms to UK
intense winters europe
increase heatwave&drought
raise sea on altantic of us coast
atlantic circulation
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boreal forest
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bleaching causes loss to algae so coral cant recover
high temp spreads disease
coral reefs
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greenland ice sheet
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contains co2
melting - release co2 into envir
permafrost
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west atlantic ice sheet
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wilkes basin
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