Sentences with phrase «irreversible changes in the climate system»
Within this framework, the possibility for irreversible changes in the climate system exists.
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«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.
How such a warming would impact the probability of irreversible changes to elements of the climate system (melting ice sheets, reversal or slowing of ocean currents, release of carbon in permafrost) is unknown.
James E. Hansen worded it a bit more cleverly and eloquently before US Congress in April 2007: «crystallizing scientific data and analysis reveal that the Earth is close to dangerous climate change, to tipping points of the system with the potential for irreversible deleterious effects.»
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.
There is growing concern that climate change and feedbacks could reinforce each other, triggering rapid and irreversible shifts in Earth's vital systems.