Sentences with phrase «danger threshold»
The phrase "danger threshold" refers to the point or level where a situation becomes risky or hazardous. It suggests that beyond this threshold, there is a potential for harm, and it is important to exercise caution and take measures to avoid any dangers. Full definition
When I was tested for arsenic, my level was 12 parts per billion, safely under the official danger threshold of 23 ppb.
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World leaders have already agreed that there is no longer any serious scientific argument about the fact that the Earth is heating up and − if no action is taken − will exceed the 2 °C danger threshold.
The new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published on Sunday in Berlin, Germany, says «widespread» use of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will probably be needed to stop the world warming by 2 °C, the politically agreed danger threshold.
Called the Newfoundland Offshore Burn Experiment, the joint Canadian and American project concluded that combustion consumed most of the more problematic compounds and the levels of harmful compounds in smoke were below danger thresholds outside 150 yards of so of the fire zone.
A doubling or tripling of existing efforts is necessary, he says, to avoid exceeding the 2 °C degree danger threshold on global temperature rise agreed by the world's government at last year's Paris climate conference.
Politicians still debate what a dangerous level might be, but Rockström's team, advised by James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, says we passed the danger threshold more than 20 years ago, when we exceeded 350 ppm.
Species loss has pushed ecosystems past a danger threshold across more than half of the terrestrial world
«Certain areas have already exceeded the danger threshold.»
Species loss has pushed ecosystems past a danger threshold across more than half of the terrestrial world