Researchers believe we could soon cross a threshold leading to boiling hot temperatures and towering seas in the centuries to come.

It may sound like the title of a low budget sci-fi movie, but for planetary scientists, "Hothouse Earth" is a deadly serious concept.

Even if countries succeed in meeting their CO2 targets, we could still lurch on to this "irreversible pathway".

BBC 6 August 2018

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