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“This is civilisation changing stuff”: Is AMOC the hardest climate story to tell?

Outrage + Optimism by Persephonica

Apr 30, 202645:47News & Politics

Europe plunged into a deep freeze. Life as we know it upended. The 2004 film ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ gave a generation of terrified journalists an impossible task: how do you communicate the counter intuitive threat of...

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