Is this the climate tipping point?
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The Impacts of Climate Change on the Amazon Rainforest
Previous studies have suggested that we might see risks of runaway forest fires kind of taking away the majority of Amazon at about four degrees of warming. But scientists are now saying that if they take into account the compounding effects of deforestation of water stress and degradation of pollution of water sources from mining and other polluting industry industrial activities, then the breakdown of the Amazon becomes a lot faster comes much sooner than originally planned. And this is what scientists refer to as tipping points, places that we can't really come back from.
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