Wide Angle: Climate Tipping Points
The trouble with climate change is that it's hard to see by just looking out your window and impossible to see if you refuse to do even that. But this might change if Earth crosses some climate tipping points, which could tip the climate apple cart and rapidly dump us into a more hostile and angry version of planet Earth. Is there time to still time to avert catastrophe? Have we already tipped the cart? Find out in this wide angle...
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Dangerous Thinking
Why are people apathetic about climate change? It's a dangerous mind set for all of us, says John Clague, because time is running out to act.
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Climate Tipping Points
Tour of the most likely things that could tip Earth into a rapid and irreversible climate change.
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Climate 'Tipping Points' Weighed for Likelihood
The risk of Earth's climate hitting a dangerous inflection point in the next two centuries is about as likely as a coin flipping on heads.
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