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ByBen Turner-Staff Writer1 day ago

Knock-on effects could transform the Amazon rainforest into savannah

Ice melt in Antarctica and Greenland drives changes to sea level and temperature, sparking off rapid changes to other climate systems..(Image credit: Shutterstock)

Asclimate changecontinues to heat the planet, ice sheets and ocean currents could destabilize each other, leading to a climate domino effect impacting 40% of the world’s population, according to new research.

And these effects could be seen at way lower temperatures than previously thought.

Scientists ran 3 million computer simulations of a climate model, finding that nearly one-third resulted in disastrous domino effects even when temperature increases were below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels, the upper limit set by the Paris agreement.

Climate tipping points are points of no return in the climate system. Once they are crossed, severe, accelerated changes to the climactic…