Sentences with phrase «for irreversible changes»

Within this framework, the possibility for irreversible changes in the climate system exists.

The numerical evidence for irreversible change to a year - round ice - free state was first discussed in studies with simple diffusive climate models (e.g., North, 1984, 1990).

Not exact matches

«If left unchecked,» the United Nations warned this month, «climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

God is true and has touched me in an irreversible way that has changed my life for the better, forever.

Taking it for too long may cause irreversible changes to your milk supply.

«For the sake of future generations who could be harmed by irreversible climate change, I urge New Yorkers to reject this fear mongering and uphold science against ideology,» he said in a statement.

Morrisey said in an emailed statement that the comments to DEP «further demonstrate the need for an immediate stay of the illegal Power Plan, a plan already causing real and irreversible changes on the ground in the states.»

«At one level, it just reinforces a point that we already knew: that the effects of climate change and sea level rise are irreversible and going to be with us for thousands of years,» says Williams, who did not work on the study.

Many people have concerns about the possible use of genome editing in humans, for example, about the risks of unintended effects due to off target DNA alterations, and the implications of making irreversible changes that will be passed on to future generations.

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.

The consequences of such initiative were disastrous: Protected from hunting for 35 years, and devoid of natural predators, the beavers grew over 5,000 times their initial population, caused irreversible changes in the forest ecosystem, and started advancing over the continent.

If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

A new report from the IPCC says that climate change — if left unchecked — will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

Will they support the wellbeing of our own and other species or will they provide a context for further large - scale extinctions and irreversible climate change?»

Ecosystem - based approaches provide an important route to sustainable action and represent a vital insurance policy against irreversible damage from climate change, whereas failure to acknowledge the relationship between climate change and biodiversity and failure to act swiftly and in an integrated manner could undermine efforts for improvements in both areas.

Mentor of the Year recipient Donahue's research focuses on developing and applying new approaches to identify early changes in tissue function that may precede irreversible damage, and in turn can be used to triage patients for early, personalized therapies.

What are the critical threshold levels («tipping points») of ocean acidification for irreversible ecosystem changes?

«Ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation are essentially irreversible on centennial time scales,» found the Royal Society, a London - based group specializing in scientific research, in a 2011 paper, «[O] nce these changes have occurred, it will take centuries for the ocean to recover.

Eric Rignot was acknowledged for «drawing public attention to the irreversible effects of climate change.»

Thus, because ocean warming is persistent for centuries, there is a danger that large irreversible change could be initiated by excessive ocean warming.

For the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate chanFor the 45th year celebration of Earth Day, the Earthsavers has organized a convergence of performance and media arts for a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate chanfor a broadcast mass outreach of a climate change education paradigm in line with the Earth Day objectives to underscore the value of a grassroots call to action to rally world leaders to forge the global agreement to prevent the irreversible threshold of 2 ° Celsius signaling the catastrophic implications of climate change.

What's happening in Antarctica, how we measure irreversible climate change, and what it means for coastal cities that sea - levels all around the world will rise by 1.5 m.

In April, seventy - seven faith leaders signed a letter urging Anderson to halt One Newark for «producing irreversible changes and fomenting widespread outrage.»

What's happening in Antarctica, how we measure irreversible climate change, and what it means for coastal cities that sea - levels all around the wor...

But whether he or, for that matter, any superintendent in conflict with a strong teachers union, can create irreversible, systemic change in several years will be left for his successor and future school board members to determine.

'' Dog heart disease treatment is needed for various canine heart conditions such as failure, congestion, degeneration and irreversible pathological changes in cardiac features and functions.

There are no preventive measures for hyperthyroidism, but early detection helps so that potentially irreversible changes don't occur.

Beard's The Unnatural State, selected for PROJECT 2017, is a study of the decay and dilapidation of industrial and agricultural buildings, attempting to capture these irreversible changes before the structures» inevitable collapse.

The sentence I just quoted implies pretty strongly that, in the presence of efficient (or for that matter inefficient) large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon, carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future might not result in a commitment to climate change that is irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.

Initially drafted in 2003 with the support and input of NGOs, the bill had been changed so much by the time it first arrived in parliament in 2010 that 73 leading civil - society organizations said it would «open the door for irreversible destructions [of] the country's nature» by allowing land uses such as mining, urbanization, tourism facilities, dam construction, and other forms of energy development to have priority over protection.

But it's important to emphasize that if southwest North America moves into a dust bowl by mid-century or later (PNAS Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/01/28/0812721106.full.pdf+html), there will be suffering closer to home, even for people on other parts of the continent.

She said that the analysis she and co-authors did for a paper on «irreversible climate change» helped lead her, as a non-expert citizen when considering energy technology, to conclude that such research is vital, even as efforts are made to find successors to fossil fuels.

And I was curious: Knowing what you know about the pace of change — and how what we've already dumped in our atmosphere is going to have an irreversible impact for decades to come — what is your personal belief on the issue of what sort of lives we in the first world should live in the here and now?

As for irreversible, if an ice sheet starts flowing, or if an albedo change from sea ice gets locked in, I could imagine a climate change being essentially irreversible even if CO2 was brought back down, but it's just speculation, nothing more.

As to the bottom line, we are talking about changes to a fundamental part of the ocean carbon cycle, far outside the range of natural variability, that are irreversible and will last for thousands of years.

The commentary by Parry et al advises us to prepare to adapt to climate changes of at least 4 °C, even though they recognize that it may not be possible to buy our way out of most of the damage (to natural systems, for example, including the irreversible loss of many plant and animal species).

This irreversible exchange of species satisfies the first criteria for dating an epoch — long - term changes to Earth.

If the climate silence and inaction continues, it may well be the story of the millennium — see NOAA: Climate change «largely irreversible for 1000 years,» with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe.

World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with a membership of 121,200 scientists and «science supporters» globally, just released an 18 - page report confirming that the world is at growing risk of «abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes» due to climate change.

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

More recently, in 2014, he addressed the dire need for climate action: «The worst possible aspect of climate change is that it will be irreversible and irrevocable.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

Of the many heat - trapping gases, CO2 puts us at the greatest risk of irreversible changes if it continues to accumulate unabated in the atmosphere — as it is likely to do if the global economy remains dependent on fossil fuels for its energy needs.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science acknowledged this brilliantly earlier this year, releasing an 18 - page report consisting of «just the facts,» which confirmed that the world is at growing risk of «abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes» due to climate change.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (which, to be fair, advances the cause of global governance) has stated that if we don't cut carbon emissions there will be «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

Bill McKibben, a high - profile climate campaigner with 350.org, said: «For scientists, conservative by nature, to use «serious, pervasive, and irreversible» to describe the effects of climate falls just short of announcing that climate change will produce a zombie apocalypse plus random beheadings plus Ebola.»

Eric Rignot was acknowledged for «drawing public attention to the irreversible effects of climate change.»

Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter, on an analysis of: (1) key findings based on the latest scientific information relevant to global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Other compelling reasons to begin taking action include the potential for catastrophes that defy the assumption that climate change damages will be incremental and linear; the risk of irreversible environmental impacts; the need to learn about the pace at which society can begin a transition to a climate - stable economy; the likelihood of imposing unconscionable burdens and impossible tasks on future generations; the need to create incentives to accelerate technological development the address climate change; and the ready availability of «no regrets» policies that have very low or even no costs to the economy.