Sentences with phrase «becomes irreversible»

Say we need 20 years to get our sh*t together and reduce emissions, but we only have 10 before the tipping point (where ice melting becomes irreversible, for example), maybe it's worthwhile to pump out massive amounts of harmful junk, paint roofs white, whatever is possible, to avoid that tipping point.

«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»

specifically, I'd like to know if there a date or year when the build up of carbon becomes irreversible?

Can we reach the political tipping point that will enable us to cut carbon emissions before we reach the point where the melting of the Himalayan glaciers becomes irreversible?

The procedure should be performed before symptoms become severe and damage to the eye becomes irreversible.

Specialist Veterinary attention must be found immediately, otherwise the damage to the optic nerve becomes irreversible.

At some point, the bladder tissue damage becomes irreversible.

Mitotic progression becomes irreversible in prometaphase and collapses when Wee1 and Cdc25 are inhibited.

Once the pressure has surpassed a certain threshold, the amorphization process becomes irreversible and the material can no longer return to a crystalline configuration,» said Caetano Rodrigues Miranda, a professor at the University of São Paulo's Physics Institute (IF - USP) and lead author of the article.

«Once the site transitions from net snowfall to net melt, it's only a matter of time before the wastes melt out; it becomes irreversible.»

«The risk to Cuomo in waiting too long is that momentum that Paterson has built over the last couple of months becomes irreversible,» says a Democratic lawmaker.

Over time this process becomes irreversible, leading to partial blindness in the weaker eye.

Keep watch for these encroaching hazards, and take immediate actions to thwart them before they become irreversible.

The destruction this time is global and in danger of becoming irreversible.

What is it that makes developing countries so vulnerable to the invasion of concepts, values and norms that transform their cultures from within and neo-colonise them, in ways that could become irreversible?

It is in this context that I have said before and I say again that globalization has become irreversible.

Teams and managers evolve with time, we are seeing a devolution at Arsenal, slowly becoming irreversible.

However, the data points to early intervention (day 7 and day 21) as generally being more effective than later intervention (day 48) in relation to structural degeneration, as changes may have become irreversible by such a late time point.

With continued administration of steroids, some of these effects become irreversible.

Over time, such damage may become irreversible and lead to disease.

Over time, such damage may become irreversible and lead to disease including cancer.

However, by the time the deficiency is recognized (serum level below 200 pg / ml), just as in the case of the dementia, the neuropathy may well have become irreversible.

The goal, say the governors, is to prevent what could become an irreversible erosion of public education and other government services.

Once the dog's temperature reaches 106 °, damage to the body's organs may become irreversible.

In some cases, unfortunately, an animal's failing vision or blindness may have become irreversible by the time veterinary care is pursued.

A dental cleaning and at home dental may help this from becoming irreversible.

This is not the case, though, as liver failure is developing, and can become irreversible if it isn't caught and aggressively treated.

The international integration of mobile games has become an irreversible trend.

Won't they suffer — belatedly to be sure — at the hands of Governments trying to reset the planet's climate system, even if it is too late to stop what had, by then, become an irreversible trend?

Dating back to Hammurabi (who reportedly instituted the death penalty for cutting cedars when the impact of deforestation had become irreversible), societies have been slamming shut barn doors long after the cows have fled.

In the report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world's top scientists warned that global warming is unequivocally man - made and will become irreversible if we do not act now to reduce the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.

What is the prediction as to when anthropologically caused global warming will become irreversible?

«We became the Earth's infection a long and uncertain time ago, but it was not until about 200 years ago that the Industrial Revolution began: then the infection of the Earth became irreversible,» he says.

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

So scientists are keen to know at what temperature melting of the ice sheet is likely to become irreversible.

The question is no longer whether the climate is changing, but how long we have to act before those changes become irreversible.

Once these ice sheets start to melt, the changes become irreversible,» Dutton said.

Not exact matches

«If we want Los Angeles to become the next San Francisco, this is a surefire and irreversible way to accelerate the process.»

Even if he decides to try to become more restrained in his job as NEC director, he's already done some irreversible damage with the way he's conducted himself in the White House so far.

An irreversible rise towards the personal: unless it satisfies some Whole comprising these two conjoined attributes, the Universe (psycho - analytically dosed, if I may put it that way) can only become stifling for all reflective activity, that is to say, radically unsuited to any rebound of Evolution.

The new culture is not limited to the adoption of a new conceptual framework: the new concepts became dynamic action principles, which have already led to concrete and irreversible transformations in all sectors of social and political life.

We are going to have some more global warming but how much more and when this will become dangerous and irreversible is where we try to set a boundary.

Over time, bacteria in the lungs can become resistant to antibiotics making it increasingly difficult to treat lung infections and leading to irreversible damage to the lungs.

«We'll look back and say this is the year where people rallied together to start down the irreversible path of becoming less dependent on oil,» says Samir Kaul, a partner in venture capital firm Khosla Ventures in Menlo Park, California, which invests in energy and other tech startups.

He must race to find the answers he needs before he becomes the next victim of the irreversible suicide gene.

Once it starts, this process is usually irreversible — much as embryonic stem cells have no alternative but to become part of a kidney or cartilage once the biological «switch» is thrown.

Criteria (v): be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land - use, or seause which is representative of a culture or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change

I founded a prolific brain bank and after analyzing this vast collection, it became clear to me that by the time the first symptoms of AD manifest, the brain has already suffered considerable and irreversible damage.

Unless a human «tipping point» is reached soon, with implementation of effective policy actions, large irreversible climate changes will become unavoidable.

Non-selective and irreversible MAOI have become as third or fourth - line strategy for the management of treatment - resistant depression.