Understanding climate change — key message 6

SOER 2010 Message (Deprecated) Published 28 Nov 2010

Recent research suggests that several key components of the climate system could undergo irreversible change at significantly lower levels of global temperature increase than previously assessed. The most important of these “tipping elements” for Europe are the Greenland ice sheet, Alpine glaciers, and Arctic sea ice.

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