Sentences with phrase «climate reached the tipping point»

In the wake of a fall storm «Xavier» that struck Germany and claimed 7 lives, one of Germany's most popular TV Talkshows, Maischberger 1 on ARD German public television, recently featured climate change in discussion round bearing the title: «Xavier and the weather extremes: has our climate reached the tipping point?»

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Judge Coffin says the nature, facts and drivers of climate change will be central to the case — including whether there is a threshold at which the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a tipping point locking in irreversible planetary damage.

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

«Live Earth will help us reach a tipping point that's needed to move corporations and governments to take decisive action to solve the climate crisis.»

They are fascinated by the science, asking questions about the climate history of the Tibetan plateau and the chances of reaching environmental tipping points, as well as questions about western environmental thought and policy.

That said, he's optimistic we're reaching a positive tipping point on climate politics.

This bought - off, pig - headed, chicken - hawk, war mongering administration's legacy could be as the most detrimental bunch of A holes that has ever lived if they have foot - dragged long enough that the climate has reached the tipping points that climatologists fear.

When a tipping point is reached, positive feedbacks will overwhelm the negative feedbacks that are keeping the present climate stable.

Arctic scientist Julienne Stroeve observed that the shrinking Arctic sea ice may have reached «a tipping point that could trigger a cascade of climate change reaching into Earth's temperate regions.»

[More research needed] We may eventually reach a tipping point primarily caused by CO 2 and enter a non - linear climate response.

It is possible that Earth warms so much that it reaches what is called a «tipping point,» where the global climate system is seriously and permanently disrupted — like when a glass of water has been tipped over and the water can not realistically be put back into the glass.

If we reach this tipping point we will have triggered yet another climate feedback, taken another step that could help seal our fate as a civilization.

Our home planet is dangerously near a tipping point at which human - made greenhouse gases reach a level where major climate changes can proceed mostly under their own momentum.

Any rise or fall in absolute sea level will be a minor side effect of climate change if the chemical balance of the oceans reaches a tipping point.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

We have now reached a tipping point where the cumulative burden of UK climate change policy will make it uncompetitive for some sectors to invest and create jobs in the UK,» EEF director of Policy, Steve Radley, said... According to Government figures, climate policies could add up to 52 per cent to electricity prices paid by energy intensive industry by 2020... http://www.greenwisebusiness.co.uk/news/carbon-price-floor-to-cost-manufacturing-12bn-says-eef-2509.aspx

Its report on the potential for «abrupt climate change» was an update of an earlier report a decade ago, about the potential for the Earth's climate system to shift abruptly in a relatively short period of time if certain breaking points are reached or tipping points are crossed.

The likelihood of the complete loss of Arctic summer sea ice by 2030, faster melting of the vast Greenland ice sheets, and the rapid and quickening thaw of permafrost regions indicate that the window for arresting climate change before tipping points are reached is rapidly closing.

«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.»

The HFC phase - down will help slow climate change and sea level rise, as well as prevent the world from reaching irreversible climatic «tipping points.»

«The investment landscape has reached a tipping point, where it's become clear that managing climate exposure — by both minimizing climate risk and pursuing climate opportunities — is not only good for the climate, it's also good for bottom line,» said Buchner.

A process involving «positive feedback» causes the warming to fuel itself, until it reaches a point that finally tips the climate pattern over.

But the science is at best equivocal, and more accurately nearly non-existent, for the second proposition that the climate is dominated by positive feedbacks and will run away once it reaches some tipping point.

Accordingly, those riding the climate change bandwagon have had to illustrate their narratives with claims about when climate change will reach its «tipping point», when we can expect disaster to arrive, and at what point we will pass the deadline for creating the comprehensive legal and institutional response to climate change.

Meanwhile, earth has reached what scientists deem the climate tipping point - and evidence suggests the carbon concentrations in our atmosphere may be permanent.

Tipping points can occur during climate change when the climate reaches a state such that strong amplifying feedbacks are activated by only moderate additional warming.

I would say that it would not be unreasonable to be concerned that some tipping point had been reached and the climate would lurch into ultra-hot territory.

With concerted effort, the United States and China can work with the 111 countries already committed to a phase - down under the Montreal Protocol, to slow climate change and sea level rise, as well as prevent the world from reaching irreversible climatic «tipping points.»

It is now becoming clear we've reached a tipping point where fossil fuels will enter terminal decline, independently of climate policy action.

Every time there is a «hottest» day, a «warmest - than - ever» month, or an extended period of quickly rising global temps, there are many who instantly claim that the world has reached a runaway climate change condition, or a global warming tipping point, or a soon to be doomsday, a no - return cascade turning Earth into the next Venus.

However, one can cause significant damage to the environment even without reaching a tipping point, so the threshold at which climate change becomes subjectively dangerous may well be below this.

RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase in the release of methane could happen within the next 50 years.At what point in the Earth's temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what point would huge amounts of extra methane start melting, i.e at what temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane melt, or at what point in the rise of co2 concentrations in the atmosphere would the methane melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp melting point exists.Of course, once that tipping point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around in the air it can cause other tipping points, i.e. permafrost melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping points, such as the melting permafrost, if indeed a huge increase in the melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge, changes occured in the Earth's climate in the past.See other relevent posts in the past from Realclimate.Climate often does not change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick, changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick change.Why should the danger from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?

Combating climate change has reached a tipping point and is embedded in the collective consciousness.

The BBC, which promised better coverage on climate change, failed to deliver this time — as can be seen in its story, «Arctic «tipping point» may not be reached.»

Without the US, China, and India making serious cuts soon, we will reach the tipping points that James Hansen and so many others are pointing out, such as those in the «State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World», and nothing will be able to stop catastrophic climate change.

According to Simms, «in just 100 months» time, if we are lucky, and based on a quite conservative estimate, we could reach a tipping point for the beginnings of runaway climate change.

As we reach a tipping point on global climate action, increased disclosure of environmental data, along with access to States and Regions Climate Action Tracker will help sub-national governments to understand their environmental impact and the risks and opportunities of climate climate action, increased disclosure of environmental data, along with access to States and Regions Climate Action Tracker will help sub-national governments to understand their environmental impact and the risks and opportunities of climate Climate Action Tracker will help sub-national governments to understand their environmental impact and the risks and opportunities of climate climate change.