Sentences with phrase «causing irreversible changes»

The silica dust accumulates in the lung causing irreversible changes.

The permanent displacement of millions of Syrians is one way in which its war and others in the region are causing irreversible changes.

Taking it for too long may cause irreversible changes to your milk supply.

The consequences of such initiative were disastrous: Protected from hunting for 35 years, and devoid of natural predators, the beavers grew over 5,000 times their initial population, caused irreversible changes in the forest ecosystem, and started advancing over the continent.

The British professor is worried that The Donald's rejection of this plan to combat global warming could cause irreversible changes which doom our planet to a grim fate.

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If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.»

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.

Morrisey said in an emailed statement that the comments to DEP «further demonstrate the need for an immediate stay of the illegal Power Plan, a plan already causing real and irreversible changes on the ground in the states.»

Over time, the lung is changed by secretions from the M2 cells, which cause the lung tissue to remodel itself, contributing to irreversible obstruction and poor lung function.

Anthracycline drugs, such as doxorubicin, are known to cause heart failure because they cause changes in the DNA structure of the heart muscle cells, leading to irreversible cardiac damage.

The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, a progressive, irreversible brain disease that results in impaired cognitive functioning and other behavioural changes.

A dog bite can change someone's life forever and cause irreversible damage, both cosmetic and mechanical.

It sometimes causes irreversible erosions and changes in linings of the nasal passages (naso - turbinate bones) that can be helped but never entirely cured.

Without such changes, agricultural expansion could cause substantial and irreversible environmental damage.

And if action is not taken soon, climate change will cause irreversible impacts on our planet.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which, to be fair, advances the cause of global governance) has stated that if we don't cut carbon emissions there will be «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

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

We call on all people and nations to recognize the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and by changes in forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other land uses.

The message of the latest IPCC report is clear: Climate change is real and caused by humans, and we will see far more dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts if we do not reduce global carbon emissions.

If we don't act now, the climate change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be irreversible.

The absorption of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide causes irreversible ocean acidification, which the scientists say will cause «massive corrosion of coral reefs and dramatic changes in the makeup of ocean biodiversity.»

We have formulated a much broader definition of a tipping element, because (i) we wish to include nonclimatic variables; (ii) there may be cases where the transition is slower than the anthropogenic forcing causing it; (iii) there may be no abruptness, but a slight change in control may have a qualitative impact in the future; and (iv) for several important phase changes, state - of - the - art models differ as to whether the transition is reversible or irreversible (in principle).

CTPs are irreversible, uncertain events that can be triggered by climate - change - induced high temperatures and that cause large damages or disruptions to the climate system.

Whether you (or Edim) personally want to worry about these things is up to you, my point is that there are plenty of potential effects of climate change which would not fall into the «abrupt and irreversible» category but could still cause big problems if they occur, so just because the particular outcomes the IPCC classifies as such may not happen this century it doesn't logically mean we won't suffer serious impacts in the shorter term.

Pauley and other marine biologists have shown that drastically reduced populations in marine fishes caused by overfishing may never recover because overfishing has created irreversible changes in ecosystem structure.

But we consider it to be our responsibility as professionals to ensure, to the best of our ability, that people understand what we know: human - caused climate change is happening, we face risks of abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes, and responding now will lower the risk and cost of taking action.

I'm not really buying in to the belief that mankind has the capability to cause significant, long term, and irreversible systemic change that many ascribe to.