Sentences with phrase «big tipping points»

Climate change is not yet dangerous, and two degrees of warming (2 °C) is the appropriate focus for policy - making, because 2 °C impacts are manageable and big tipping points are unlikely before 2 °C.

Received wisdom is that provided the books you've self - published are any good, and that they are in the same genre, you'll see a significant increase in sales when you publish your third, fifth and seventh book, and so on — although yesterday someone told me that the fourteenth is the biggest tipping point (no idea why!)

So that portfolio — when you did that cash out refinancing on half of them or so, was that a big tipping point for your investing, where you had a lot of free cash to then go buy some other stuff?

«The change of phase from snow and ice to water is the biggest tipping point in the Earth's system and so, although International Polar Year covers a huge range of science, for me the big issue is climate change and the impact that it's having here,» said Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, in a video message from Antarctica.

For them, this is a pretty big tipping point.

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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.

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.

Gladwell calls the big moment of change the «tipping point» and explains how companies can deliberately infect the market with a «virus.»

China focusing on domestic demand rather than exports for growth is worth watching closely: if wheels start falling off Chinese reform, that's the tipping point for a big hit to globalization.

Then, at some point, you will get a wrong tip and lose big, and your loss would become their gain.

In Part II of our series, we'll go into who the big institutional investors are, their policies and barriers, and our suggestions for how they can push this financial and innovation opportunity over the tipping point.

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Discounter Aldi is now Australia's most profitable supermarket retailer and is set to reach «tipping point», grabbing a bigger share of the main grocery shop and significantly disrupting the Coles and Woolworths duopoly.

-- Some big news happened before any games tipped - off, with Cal point guard Tyrone Wallace breaking his hand in practice Wednesday.

At more or less the same time that was happening, we also reached a few tipping points: Folksy's application servers were beginning to struggle with demand; the image service servers had reached their end - of - life support and needed upgrading and replacing; and the image service cache was no longer big enough to handle our needs and was starting to fall over.

So, those are the most common things; things that people don't think about the way do a lot of, once I point them out and they realize what it is the little door stops that the people have it in their homes so I tips on them, biggest choking hazards in your house.

There may come a tipping point when voters become suspicious of why the Tories keep targeting unemployment support, especially when bigger savings can be found from ending unnecessary benefits to wealthier pensioners such as free TV licences and winter fuel payments.»

(Mention of the Dipper suggests a great tip for finding Leo: the Big Dipper's two pointer stars traditionally guide us to the North Star, but if followed the wrong way — south — they point directly to the Lion.)

Professor Tim Lenton, from the University of Exeter and one of the authors of the study said: «Irreversible tipping points are one of the biggest risks we face if we carry on changing the climate.

To identify the tipping point where we go from recognizing a face to comparison - shopping for one, he has embarked on the biggest experiment of his career, testing nearly 1,600 people under 16 different conditions.

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.

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Possibly with the phenomenal growth of the internet and the aforementioned increase in cougar dating sites available to mature women in the UK, of late there seems to have been a «tipping point» in opinions about older women opting for cougar dating — and the general consensus now seems to have become: «If the lady and her beau are happy, so what; it's not a big issue.»

And with technology becoming a bigger selling point, the Editors» Choice Uconnect 8.4 AN infotainment system could tip help the scales for some buyers.

He is the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference (2000) and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005), both of which were number one New York Times bestsellers; as well as Outliers (2008), What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (2009) and, David and Goliath (2013).

He is the author of two books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference, (2000) and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005).

Despite the delaying tactics large publishers have been using to slow ebook growth, it's likely that in 2011 we'll see ebooks hit a tipping point where most big box bookstores will no longer be financially viable, and will close or move to smaller locations.

I think... This is a big thing and if people... If we're doing tips and everything, probably one of those tips is — at some point if you're struggling with moving from reading books on writing or listening to podcasts on writing or going to seminars on writing and not actually writing, then timed writing sessions are the secret to writing books.

As more and more consumers become savvy, the tipping point will be reached where big box retailers go the way of the local video rental store.»

Time now for Big Al's List: Every week, Big Al Clopine scours the media to find the best tips, do's and don'ts, mistakes, myths and advice to improve your overall financial picture — in handy bullet - point format.

The big advantage to training with a Canine Trade Group trainer like myself is that we can all lean on each other for advice or tips if we reach a sticking point (and inevitably, there are always sticking points!).

Hot Tip: If you need more points for those big redemptions, try to get sign - up bonuses or spend in bonus categories.

A big hat - tip to Travel With Grant for pointing this out.

We went down in a split point and saw black tip shark and around 10 big dogtooth tunas.

Save big when redeeming by earning transferable points One of the major tips I try to give is to diversify your points as much as possible.

But there's going to be a tipping point where technology is cheap enough and the audience is big enough and the location is right where we can foster something that's more Westworldy.

Like any Metal Gear Solid game worth its salts, an emphasis is placed on stealth, but this time you have a much more open environment with more options from getting from point A to point B. Big Boss can crawl, tip - toe and run around the environment while utilizing the game's terrain for stealth or even some buildings and vehicles.

Artist Charming Baker has guest edited the Art Special Edition of The Big Issue, under the theme Tipping Point.

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.

That big hump probably was the terminal moraine of the glacier for substantial periods, and could be a potential end to the tipping point of runaway grounding line retreat.

If, and this is THE big IF, we have finally passed one of the climate tipping points, then all past statistics are of no value in predicting the new dynamics of ice extent in the arctic.

«I think there was a big shock,» says Matt Price, co-ordinator of the Conservation Voters of B.C. «I think that Harper along with everyone else completely missed the fact that a tipping point was underway.»

The biggest fear is one of presumed «tipping points» that would accelerate and fundamentally alter earth systems into a new unknown state.

Another 200ppmv CO2 and we will cross the tipping point to the next big freeze.

The big difference compared to a tipping point scenario is the prolonged presence of winter sea ice.

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».

Today's theme at the AGU Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change is that big baddie of climatic tipping points, the shutdown (and rebooting) of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC.

Such phenomena have been described as «tipping points» following the popular notion that, at a particular moment in time, a small change can have large, long - term consequences for a system, i.e., «little things can make a big difference» (4).

In the microphone - amplifier - speaker correspondence the tipping point is the point when you turn the volume a little big up and then the positive feedbacks are stronger than the negative feedbacks and you get that horrible noise.

The point was tipped when Big Oil prevailed over science in the battle for the hearts and minds of policy makers in North America.