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melting of ice sheets or the release are huge stores if methane below the oceans. The oth-
ers are societal tipping points when climate change has a major effect on a region or a par-
ticular country. For example a 200-mile (~322-km) shift northward of the South-East Asi-
an monsoonal rainfall belt in climatologically terms is a small shift and is not a funda-
mental climate tipping point. But for the countries where the rains no longer fall or those
where it does for the first time this is a major climate tipping point because their weather
may have been permanently altered.
