Sentences with phrase «irreversible changes within»

Large - scale singular events are abrupt or irreversible changes within the climate system.

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The Planetary Boundaries framework proposes quantitative limits for human perturbation of critical Earth system processes, and a «safe operating space» within which human activity should attempt to stay in order to avert the risk of large - scale, possibly abrupt or irreversible environmental change.

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

In this section we examine the main components or phenomena within the Earth system that have been proposed in the literature as potentially being susceptible to abrupt or irreversible change (see Table 12.4).