Sentences with phrase «as tipping points»

We also underestimated the potential importance of strong feedbacks, such as the thawing of the permafrost to release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as well as tipping points beyond which some changes in the climate may become effectively irreversible.»

A number of components or phenomena within the Earth system have been proposed as potentially possessing critical thresholds (sometimes referred to as tipping points, (Lenton et al., 2008)-RRB-, beyond which abrupt or non-linear transitions to a different state ensues.

On the other hand, we are entering the unknown if we allow warming to surpass 2 ℃, as tipping points in the Earth's climate system make accurate predictions difficult to make,» Dr King said.

Big sudden events that occur as tipping points during slow trends aren't in the models yet, although we can expect they must be in the details somewhere.

Big sudden events that occur as tipping points during slow trends aren't in the models yet, although we can expect they must be in the details somewhere.

The 2016 elections are widely seen as a tipping point opening a flood of new investment in the cannabis industry.

Taking away the SALT deductions will serve as a tipping point.

According to Rhoades, «if there is such a thing as a tipping point — this is it.»

They reported this as the tipping point for federal finances, as if the government had hit the proverbial «fiscal wall».

I'm a progressive Christian and liberal on 90 % of political issues including marriage equality and women's rights; however, I think that this should be seen as a tipping point for Christians everywhere.

Jenni Konner, executive producer of the HBO series Girls, told The New York Times last week: «I see this as a tipping point.

As Andre Leu, the current president of the International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) noted, «Dec. 1, 2015 will be seen as one of the most important days in history... as the tipping point when the world was saved from catastrophic climate change.»

For those families with multiple school aged children, what sounds like a small price increase can serve as a tipping point, driving them out of the school meal programs at the very moment that these programs are working to meet proposed standards for more whole grains, fresh produce and healthier entrees.

In the other result, the one small thing acts as a tipping point on adjacent activities, which then influence their adjacent activities.

State Sen. Elizabeth Little, R - Queensbury, pointed to a 2009 demographic report — the Adirondack Park Regional Assessment Project — as a tipping point in the Adirondack debate.

According to the so - called influentials hypothesis, made popular by books such as The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, a small number of highly influential people drive most of the spread.

With high - profile attendees like the World Health Organization (WHO) this conference served as a tipping point where Integrative Medicine took its place at the table for non-communicable disease.

As the tipping point for universal access to classroom display technologies approaches, this is an ideal time to consider an appropriate research agenda to identify and document best practices.

Rival Volvo made a similar announcement in July, though it's aiming for 2019 as the tipping point.

«We see this deal with Simon & Schuster as a tipping point for the access model for books,» Stromberg told Mashable.

This will eventually change as the tipping point is upon us and will peak in 2012.

His decision was widely reported as a tipping point for a struggling book business flummoxed by the thriving self - publishing movement.

I've been debating it for a while, and the new Kindle Unlimited served as the tipping point...

Further, does Amazon believe that Christmas Day 2009 will be seen as the tipping point?

Adam Conover names one specific event as the tipping point which changed how student loans function in American society.

On the scale between D through K (the usual range for engagement ring diamonds), H is commonly thought of as the tipping point between colorless diamonds and diamonds with a slightly noticeable yellow tint.

Think of these small repairs as the tipping point.

Battlefront II, which came out last November, will be remembered forever as the tipping point of a year full of controversy over companies charging extra dollars for features in $ 60 games.

Roger Hiorns, whose sculptures have housed bovine brain matter and fungus - like accretions of beguiling, decaying blue crystals, cites BSE as a tipping point of a public crisis of confidence in the ruling elite.

(Earthjustice attorney Deborah Goldberg also defended the rights of those communities in a precedent - setting legal victory, something state officials highlighted as a tipping point in their decision to ban fracking.)

The UN's climate science advisory board, the IPCC, has identified 450ppm as a tipping point for the earth's climate.

Going further into simple models like this one, the authors point out other tell - tale warnings, such as a slowdown in the response to perturbations as a tipping point is approached.

Every year since 1970 has been claimed as a tipping point by someone, often on better reasoning than yet another ENSO, regardless of what the IPCC has said or done.

Observed Warming to the year 2000 (as tipping point) + 2.)

It will take another decade to insure it can not be revived, but the avalanche of scientific studies and the cumulative impact of scientists who have publicly joined those who debunked the lies on which it has been based will be noted as the tipping point.

There are also some conditions where it can remain liquid far past the boiling point as the tipping point becomes critically close throughout the volume.

This makes me see Twitter as a tipping point agent, the catalyst to being the market leader in social media — a position that Facebook has, and Google wants badly.

Using the Sharpe ratio as a tipping point, we can determine what the best blend of crypto assets is for a preferred level of volatility.

Following similar announcements by Dwolla, Earthport and PayCommerce, the developments can be viewed as a tipping point that finds blockchain moving from innovation labs and into real - world implementations.

Although it may not be a perfect strategy, in certain situations it can be effective and serve as the tipping point in a decision to make you the job offer.

Meeting your clients when and how they prefer, with extra special touches, could serve as your tipping point.

Not exact matches

The challenge of preserving and conveying this unique institutional knowledge has been intensifying for several years and is now reaching a critical tipping point as more companies are transitioning to the freelance economy.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

In other situations, such as trying to extrapolate numbers on current trends or predicting the tipping point of technologies, things get a bit dicier.

Integrating these tips as you consider your outlook for the new year can be a defining point in your professional and personal success.

While «brick and mortar [retail] is a much bigger business... we have reached the tipping point» he said, as in - store purchases defy steep discounts and foot traffic falters.

Debaltseve is emerging as a major tipping point in the war in Ukraine.

We may well be standing at a similar technological tipping point as researchers develop the vision and technologies that could launch humanity into the solar system.

In The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell argues that for us to understand why some products succeed, we must think of each as part of an epidemic.

In a heated discussion on Reddit this week, social engineer Chris Hadnagy, who tests the network security of companies using tactics such as phishing and keylogging scams, shared his tips on cybersecurity from a hacker's point of view.