Sentences with phrase «critical tipping points in»

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.

It is now well understood that there is a critical tipping point in the system.

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I'm convinced of the critical role leadership must play if we are to be successful in scaling up to reach a tipping point of a powerful public witness.

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.

For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

It attempts to define the earth system processes that humanity needs to be active stewards of in order to avoid deleterious or even catastrophic tipping points in critical Earth systems.

Critical transitions across states and tipping points lay at the heart of most complex problems in modern biology, including reversible physiological adaptation to environmental change, evolution of interactions in the microbial loop, development of an adult body plan from an embryo, differentiation of a stem cell, and transition from health to disease.

A new modeling study published today warns that the dry - season irrigated rice in West Africa's Sahel region has reached the critical threshold of 37 degrees Celcius — the tipping point.

We've got five tips for getting you pointed in the right direction and tomorrow we'll have six more details that are critical to picking the best self - publisher.

He became interested in the subject of tipping points and critical mass after having witnessed the sudden drop in crime rates in New York in the 1990s.

Crossing the critical «tipping points» the planet is now approaching may mean abrupt and possibly irreversible shifts in the workings of the Arctic, Amazon, and other parts of the globe.

Falling costs may reach critical «tipping points» in this regard.

The Arctic sea - ice has long passed its tipping point, and so also have the other critical features in the polar north.

In discussions of global change, the term tipping point has been used to describe a variety of phenomena, including the appearance of a positive feedback, reversible phase transitions, phase transitions with hysteresis effects, and bifurcations where the transition is smooth but the future path of the system depends on the noise at a critical point.

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.

Last year Prof Duarte was lead author of a paper in the Royal Swedish Academy of Science's journal AMBIO warning that the Arctic was at risk of passing critical «tipping points» that could lead to a cascading «domino effect once the summer sea ice is lost.»

In many cases, such areas would be difficult to defend by dikes and dams, and such a large sea level rise would require responses ranging from potentially large and expensive engineering projects to partial or nearcomplete abandonment of now - valuable areas as critical infrastructure such as sewer systems, gas lines, and roads are disrupted, perhaps crossing tipping points for adaptation (Kwadijk et al., 2010).

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).

So we have passed a de facto tipping point, «the critical point in an evolving situation that leads to a new and irreversible development.»

But the warmists would rather sell you a tipping point with catastrophic thermal runaway, when in fact CO2 is already so close to its maximum effectiveness (critical mass if you like) that increasing it will have negligible further effect.

Monica Bay: This was in August of 2011, so little over five years ago, and I remember telling them this is going to happen, just like eDiscovery happened this has to happen because we're hitting a tipping point where you just can't keep track of all of this and it's the case - critical information that you have to know so well.

Chip & Dan Heath have a lot more tips for changing behaviours in the book, such as scripting the critical moves, shrink the change to make it seem less scary, build core habits, and break the change down into specific steps while still pointing to the exciting new world that we'll be part of.

By getting in with developers early, Digital Ocean has set itself up to take advantage of the tipping point of the Internet of Everything — when not only all major services but customer adoption for them reaches critical mass worldwide — likely well within the next 5 years.

The «tipping point» is the critical point in an evolving situation that leads to a new and irreversible development that is often considered to be a turning point.

There's no point in setting the right rent price if you have tenants who don't pay on time, which is why the next tip is critical.