Sentences with phrase «irreversible changes if»

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.

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.

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.

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?