Several vulnerable elements in the climate system, such as continental ice sheets, Amazon rainforest, West African monsoon, and others, could be pushed towards abrupt or
irreversible change if warming continues in a business - as - usual way throughout this century.
«We found that several vulnerable elements in Earth's climate system — like the Amazon and other big rain forests, like the great ice sheets that have so much sea level locked up in their ice — could be pushed toward abrupt or
irreversible change if we go on toward 2100 with our business - as - usual increase in emissions of greenhouse gases,» he said.
Amazon rainforest, West African monsoon and others) could be pushed towards abrupt or
irreversible change if warming continues in a business - as - usual way throughout this century.
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.
Not exact matches
If we don't act now, the climate
change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be
irreversible.»
«
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.»
Here she talks about the
irreversible changes that will happen to your breasts
if you breastfeed.
The collaborative study suggests that multiple interacting climate tipping points could be triggered this century
if climate
change isn't tackled — leading to
irreversible economic damages worldwide.
Professor Tim Lenton, from the University of Exeter and one of the authors of the study said: «
Irreversible tipping points are one of the biggest risks we face
if we carry on
changing the climate.
It could be
if you wait too long, the
changes in your heart are
irreversible.»
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.
If you don't make a
change soon, there may be
irreversible damage to your emotional relationship with social media.
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.
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.
In the report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, the world's top scientists warned that global warming is unequivocally man - made and will become
irreversible if we do not act now to reduce the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere.
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.
And
if action is not taken soon, climate
change will cause
irreversible impacts on our planet.
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.»
First, there is broad agreement that
if we keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius, it is «likely» that we'll avoid
irreversible, runaway climate
change.
In a sentence, here's what they found: On our current path, climate
change could pose an
irreversible, existential risk to civilization as we know it — but we can still fix it
if we decide to work together.
The spewing of 110 million tonnes a day of heat - trapping pollution into the atmosphere — as
if the atmosphere were an open sewer — is «increasing the likelihood,» says a warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, «of severe, pervasive and
irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems».
If you have a system that is complex, with a number of
irreversible reactions that give rise to sinks, modeling is impossible; i.e. light flux
changes during the course of the day, as does temperature, pressure at each elevation.
This movement of heat is
irreversible —
changes of state in the gas that increase the entropy of the Universe are
irreversible changes by consistent definition, something you can easily enough understand
if you really try.
World headed for
irreversible climate
change in five years, IEA warns
If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly
changed, the world will «lose for ever» the chance to avoid dangerous climate
change The world is likely to build so many fossil - fuelled power stations, energy - guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate
change will be «lost for ever», according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure.
The message of the latest IPCC report is clear: Climate
change is real and caused by humans, and we will see far more dangerous and potentially
irreversible impacts
if we do not reduce global carbon emissions.
And
if the climate is producing accelerating, abrupt, unequivocal,
irreversible, rapid, dangerous, indisputable, irrefutable and incontrovertible global warming (i.e. «planet burning») then the 6 - month
change chart on the right would be reality.
If we don't act now, the climate
change damage caused to our Great Barrier Reef by 2030 will be
irreversible.
If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and
irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet... Please allow us, the United States of America, to serve in modeling the
change necessary to protect humanity and our planet.»
Even
if we were to stop emitting carbon - dioxide tomorrow, atmospheric concentrations would remain elevated for centuries — so, on any reasonable time scale, the
changes that we're making to the Earth's climate system are
irreversible.
If you're interested in detailed results, read the paper (it's pretty short), but the takeaway from the modeling is this: The
changes we are setting in motion are
irreversible.
Such a
change is
irreversible if the recovery time scale due to natural processes is significantly longer than the time it took to reach the new state.
It's what Joe Romm at Climate Progress calls «a declaration of dependence on fossil fuels, a figurative declaration of war on a livable climate and the health and well - being of countless future generations» and my colleague Elias Isquith describes as an effort to «design a right - wing machine to dominate American politics in the near - and medium - term future» — which,
if successful, will be more than enough time to set Earth on an
irreversible path to catastrophic climate
change.
Whether you (or Edim) personally want to worry about these things is up to you, my point is that there are plenty of potential effects of climate
change which would not fall into the «abrupt and
irreversible» category but could still cause big problems
if they occur, so just because the particular outcomes the IPCC classifies as such may not happen this century it doesn't logically mean we won't suffer serious impacts in the shorter term.
If we relied solely on renewables and we found that they by themselves could not supply enough power to meet our «needs» and we fell back onto (or were never weaned off) the fossil fuel economy then we would have
irreversible global climate
change.
Results of a recent long - term and large - scale simulation of the collapse of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) show that the destabilization of the entire ice sheet would be
irreversible if current conditions don't
change by 2075.
Abrupt
change comes — «
if», from sea sediments,
irreversible thaw from the peat bog.
Even
if the world cuts emissions drastically and stays below 2 °C of warming, the IPCC notes, we've already locked in some amount of «
irreversible» climate
change, whose effects will «continue for centuries.»
If, as an example, it is obvious that the fundamental
change made by the employer is final and
irreversible, how long can the employee realistically continue to reject the
change?