Sentences with phrase «irreversible as the areas»

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It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

Jeremy Firestone, director of the Center for Carbon - free Power Integration at the University of Delaware, said the Obama administration's strategy has been to make offshore wind areas already leased to developers irreversible by the Trump administration as long as the projects have state support.

At that level, the world risked initiating feedbacks in the climate system, such as the melting of ice sheet area, that could trigger irreversible warming out of humanity's control.

* At higher projected rates of warming, areas such as the tundra and the Amazon rainforest face a high risk of «abrupt and irreversible» changes in their ecosystems.