Sentences with phrase «irreversible effects on»

One year ago, the Sierra Club submitted comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative about a newly proposed trade deal with the European Union, warning that it could have irreversible effects on communities and the climate crisis we all face.

Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.»

This implies that the urban environment imposes a challenge to developing birds, with potentially irreversible effects on lifespan.

Last week Scottish politicians met with the defence secretary to put the case for saving existing commitments - warning dramatic cuts would have irreversible effects on Scottish employment.

If implemented without a comprehensive, properly resourced, long - term strategy to preserve legislative information, these budget cuts and policy directions will have an irreversible effect on our democracy for years to come.

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«And now we know more about the long - term, irreversible effects it can have on children's cognitive and behavioral development.

«The irreversible effects of cancer treatment on fertility will have long - term implications for men and women.

«At one level, it just reinforces a point that we already knew: that the effects of climate change and sea level rise are irreversible and going to be with us for thousands of years,» says Williams, who did not work on the study.

Many people have concerns about the possible use of genome editing in humans, for example, about the risks of unintended effects due to off target DNA alterations, and the implications of making irreversible changes that will be passed on to future generations.

A failure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly within the next decade will have large adverse effects on the climate that will be essentially irreversible on human time scales.

Things start out fine, but they didn't count on the side effects, namely that the serum is irreversible.

Using alcohol is sometimes considered a right of passage with teenagers but Steven Wright, representing Parents Empowered, says it has irreversible, adverse effects on children's brains.

Similarly several anti-tumor antibiotics have adverse effects on the gastrointestinal tract, causing vomiting, diarrhea & irreversible problems with the intestinal tissues.

For this reason, even a total cessation of anthropogenic emissions would result in almost no significant temperature reduction for centuries, which is why I used the term «irreversible on human timescales» to describe the effect.

Elizabeth Kolbert on yet another report which says that the future effects of anthropogenic climate change will be irreversible and catastrophic.

A 127 - page final draft of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report sent to governments Monday warned the effects of global warming already are felt across all the continents and oceans and further emissions will increase the likelihood of «severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.»

A failure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly within the next decade will have large adverse effects on the climate that will be essentially irreversible on human time scales.

While such «tipping points» (Kemp, 2005) are impossible to identify without substantial uncertainties, they may lead to irreversible effects such as biodiversity loss or, at the very least, impacts that have a slow recovery (e.g., on soils and corals).

Vibration will cause irreversible damage to the mechanical hard disk, so the HP Omen in the mechanical hard disk on both sides of the use of the shock effect is very good protective pad.