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Tipping points refer to abrupt, self-sustaining and hard-to-reverse changes that occur after a component of the climate system crosses a threshold through slow change, such as irreversible melting of the Greenland ice sheet, degradation of the Amazon rainforest into savanna, and weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
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