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Is it too late to reverse climate change?

No, it is not too late to take meaningful action that can halt further warming, limit the severity of impacts, and even gradually reverse some aspects of climate change—though fully returning to a pre-industrial climate on human timescales is not feasible, and some changes are already locked in.

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