Sentences with phrase «be a tipping point beyond»

Although I also note that a lot of indie names appear in the top 1000 and seem firmly ensconced there, so perhaps there is a tipping point beyond which the popularity lists don't really impact your sales.

If these limits did not exist and there really could be a tipping point beyond which these green technologies would mercilessly sweep aside fossil fuels for good, I'd be all for it.

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America is well beyond the tipping point when it comes to cohabitation.

«We'd be very close to the threshold but with a safety margin so that deforestation alone doesn't take the biome beyond the tipping point.»

But, you know, the idea of pulling this altogether, of wait there may be boundaries beyond which we do not want the environment to go, either because they go in to a tipping [point] and fundamentally change or because you -LSB-'ve caused][a] near - irreversible amount of damage.

Some say that we are heading rapidly for a global tipping point — a threshold beyond which the entire biosphere will shift into a new and mostly undesired state.

«We're beyond a tipping point» in number of faculty who believe a research - based curriculum is preferable to one based on only lectures and canned labs, says Elizabeth Ambos, executive officer of the Council on Undergraduate Research in Washington, D.C..

The fear is that progressive logging itself will lead to a tipping point beyond which the forest is no longer dense and large enough to recycle enough rain to survive.

Event after degrading event took place in short order, but it wasn't the constant onslaught of jokes about my body that pushed me beyond my tipping point.

An unfazed tough guy walking away from an massive explosion in slow motion, it's a tipping point reached long ago — this sequence has become a well - worn cliché in the visual vocabulary of pop culture even beyond cinema.

Is there some tipping point beyond which private schools will surely eschew the program?

August was the tipping point month with each of these leading sellers going beyond the sales of their midsize and compact cars.

Beyond that, I think that The Tipping Point is a way of making sense of the world, because I'm not sure that the world always makes as much sense to us as we would hope.

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Just beyond Kaibo at the very tip of Cayman Kai is Starfish Point.

Just as Struktur (2) offers glimpses of a world obscured beyond, so the Berlin Wall at this historic tipping point was to capitulate to the political and social change dawning across its border.

If this passes tipping points in large enough volumes, there could be additional collapses in marine life beyond what we directly produce with overfishing and pollution.

The issue today is whether we will trigger tipping points that cause climate change to accelerate beyond our control.

«Climate change and green energy have moved beyond politics; it's past the tipping point.

The time for action is limited — we are approaching a tipping point beyond which the opportunity to reverse the damage of CO2 emissions will disappear.

Models suggest there is a tipping point of 30 - 50 % of the Amazon and Congo rainforests, beyond which additional tree loss would significantly alter ecosystems.

In order to not exceed the much - feared two - degree tipping point beyond which (in layman's terms) uncontrollable climate hell breaks loose, we're going to need a 40 - 70 percent global emissions reduction by 2050, and to bring emissions to zero by the end of this century.

A possible «tipping point» in Central Africa and the Amazon could be between 30 percent and 50 percent deforestation, Lawrence said, beyond which disaster could lurk.

In the end of the article they do put forth the possibilty of protection by CO2; I think there reasoning was that it could push forward some tipping point, beyond which albedo would be «eternally» self - reinforcing.

We need to realize there is a «tipping point» beyond which the changes caused by higher temperatures become irreversible.

Even at 2.0 °C, and certainly above it, it is thought that the Earth would cross certain tipping points, beyond which the operation of the Earth System is changed in an irreversible way, at least over timescales of hundreds of thousands of years.

«But our research shows that if you protect certain areas of the Amazon, as the Brazilian government is currently doing, the forest will not reach a tipping point, which means we can maintain the climate with levels of deforestation beyond which was originally thought.»

As is apparent from Figure 1, the climate system would cross several tipping points and trigger various feedback effects that would render the climate system beyond human control.

... Earth's climate is nearing, but has not passed, a tipping point, beyond which it will be impossible to avoid climate change with far ranging undesirable consequences.

«Stephen Hawking says Donald Trump could turn Earth into planet like Venus with 250C and sulphuric acid rain... We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible... I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our natural planet»

They're going beyond all kinds of tipping points in the search for some crazy energy grail nobody has seen or knows what looks like.

When the clock starts ticking, we could be beyond our climate's tipping point, the point of no return.

This leads most to believe that most model runs for the likely scenarios predicted by the IPCC (2 X CO2, etc.) will predict the results to 2100 and beyond fairly accurately (barring any tipping points occurring, which is increasingly likely).

The bigger issue, according to Bhushan, is that, despite repeated IPCC reports calling for urgent action to stem global warming beyond the tipping point, «global action on climate change is not going anywhere».

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.

But that's only the start, we know that there are tipping points which, if triggered would push the temperature way beyond that.

The cost is nil, and I think it may finally do the trick of pushing the world's populace to the tipping point of working to end GW, before we reach the tipping point of «GW is now beyond our ability (thru our GHG reductions) to halt or reverse.»

As is apparent from Figure 3, the climate system would cross several tipping points and trigger various feedback effects that would render the climate system largely beyond human control.

Today's buzz in the blawgosphere and beyond is that Bush's nomination of his White House Counsel, Miers, has reached «the tipping point,» as The Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr posts here, here and here.

Talking points Here are tips for better conversation, from Debra Fine, author of «Beyond Texting: The Fine Art of Face - to - Face Communication for Teenagers.»