Sentences with phrase «critical climate tipping point»

I.e., we could have passed a critical climate tipping point 20 years ago that only smacks upside the head this year.

Not exact matches

As we approach — and perhaps careen past — a critical tipping point in climate disruption, our options for correcting the balance will become increasingly urgent, perhaps controversial.

«Climate macroscope: New software for finding tipping points and critical network structures.»

Mathematically, it turns out, the shift from a healthy state to a depressed state resembles other so - called tipping points — moments of critical mass where a system, such as changes to Earth's climate or a social trend — shift rapidly from one state to another.

The risk of transgressing critical thresholds («tipping points») increases strongly with ongoing climate change.

«The latest scientific assessments tell us the risks of crossing critical tipping points, capable of triggering runaway climate change, rise very significantly between 1.5 ˚C and 2 ˚C warming.

With some scientists saying that the tipping point for devastating sea - level rise and other abrupt climate change events is only ten years away, fast - action climate strategies like the 2007 Montreal Protocol adjustment are critical to buying world leaders more time to negotiate a long - term post-2012 climate treaty.

NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human - made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.

James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, today published a study showing that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.

The precise levels of climate change sufficient to trigger tipping points (critical thresholds) remain uncertain, but the likelihood of crossing tipping points in the earth system or interlinked human and natural systems decreases with reduced greenhouse gas emissions (medium confidence).

Early warning of climate tipping points from critical slowing down: comparing methods to improve robustness

The scientific literature and recent observations — along with our ongoing lack of climate action — have long passed the worrisome stage (see the post last month «Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Nearing Critical «Tipping Point» «and links below).

The risk of crossing critical thresholds or «tipping points» increases strongly with ongoing climate change.

As temperatures rise, the risks increase that vulnerable elements of the climate system — the polar ice sheets, the Amazon rainforest, West African monsoon, and others — will cross critical thresholds, or tipping points.