Sentences with phrase «critical tipping point»

Surely a maximum safe level with a reasonable probability of safety in avoiding critical tipping points is not unreasonable, and indeed vital for policymakers?

Human societies must now change course and steer away from critical tipping points in the Earth system that might lead to rapid and irreversible change (3).

I think we've already passed critical tipping points, so the only way to keep temps below the two degree target will be with geoengineering.

«Brain cell simulations show critical tipping point for swelling.»

«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.

The challenge of preserving and conveying this unique institutional knowledge has been intensifying for several years and is now reaching a critical tipping point as more companies are transitioning to the freelance economy.

I think right now we can get away with not asking these hard questions because enough people on earth still live in relative poverty and are not creating the waste that we as a country create, but when that changes (and it will), or when we have created so much waste ourselves as to arrive at that critical tipping point, we will need to have difficult conversations about these things.

Since all type Ia supernovas are the result of a white dwarf breaching that critical tipping point, astronomers assumed they'd always produce an extremely similar blast.

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.

New mathematical models of this mechanism, developed by Koen Dijkstra of the University of Twente in The Netherlands, show a critical tipping point: at lower energy levels, there is no way back.

JB: This year we hit a critical tipping point in our schools nationwide.

Six of 10 ninth - graders fail to earn enough credits to advance to 10th grade, marking a «critical tipping point» for them, the application says.

Six of 10 ninth - graders fail to earn enough credits to advance to 10th grade, marking a «critical tipping point» for them, the application said.

In fact, we may have already passed a critical tipping point as evidenced by ice melt at the poles.

Finally, there's the «climate catastrophe» scenario where we find ourselves having passed some critical tipping point where climate change is accelerating out of control.

Dr. Nepstad suggests we are already approaching a critical tipping point.

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.

As ice sheets melt, deep water formation and ocean circulation are probably vulnerable to a critical tipping point as well.

«I wish I knew where this critical tipping point is, but that is unfortunately just what we don't know.