Sentences with phrase «irreversible if»

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.

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.

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.

This is not the case, though, as liver failure is developing, and can become irreversible if it isn't caught and aggressively treated.

Because brain fog can lead to early brain degeneration that may be irreversible if caught too late.

Not exact matches

Because such a transaction would be irreversible and difficult, if not impossible, to trace, observers quickly recognized the hallmark of a scam in which the senders would likely be diverting their funds to the criminals, never to see them again.

If that threshold is exceeded, climate scientists believe subsequent severe weather events will be irreversible.

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.»

Consumers needed to be told clearly about risks in the virtual currency, such as the fact that transactions are generally irreversible, and that they could lose their money if they hold onto bitcoins for an extended period.

«If we want Los Angeles to become the next San Francisco, this is a surefire and irreversible way to accelerate the process.»

Even if he decides to try to become more restrained in his job as NEC director, he's already done some irreversible damage with the way he's conducted himself in the White House so far.

In court, doctors testified that Jahi's total brain failure was irreversible, and that even if her body were medically sustained, it would soon deteriorate.

(He should shield them, if possible, from mistakes which have disastrous or irreversible consequences.)

The Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act provides that unless a physician can establish that he «reasonably believes» an unborn child is younger than 24 weeks, or, if the child is older, he can establish that continuing the pregnancy will result in either the death of the mother or «the substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function,» the physician can not perform a late - term abortion.

Yet, of course, even if we agreed that irreversible loss of whole brain function established that the person was dead, we would be reluctant to bury a corpse until its heart had ceased to beat.

For if it be true that the tide of evolutionary totalization sweeping us along requires, for its viability, not only that we must progress towards some form of irreversible unity, but also that this progress must be in the personal sphere, is not this a positive reason for believing that sooner or later something must happen in the world whereby certain basic conditions of the human phenomenon will undergo modification?

An irreversible rise towards the personal: unless it satisfies some Whole comprising these two conjoined attributes, the Universe (psycho - analytically dosed, if I may put it that way) can only become stifling for all reflective activity, that is to say, radically unsuited to any rebound of Evolution.

If it is true that, bound by the collective interaction of its liberties, the human social group can not escape from certain irreversible laws of evolution, does this mean that, observed along its axis of «greatest complexity» (i.e. increasing liberty) the World is coiling upon itself with as much sureness as it is in other respects radiating outwards and explosively expanding?

Apparently, after the events of Esther 8:1 - 2, Mordecai and Esther waited for a period of about two months to see if the King would figure out some way to reverse an irreversible law.

The problem with jaundice is that if you let bilirubin levels get too high without managing them, the baby can get severe, irreversible brain damage from a condition known as kernicterus.

Here she talks about the irreversible changes that will happen to your breasts if you breastfeed.

If you wait until there are major problems to seek out support, irreversible damage to the breastfeeding relationship may have already occurred.

If untreated, they can cause phlebitis, or irreversible skin damage.

Even if you plan to rush to a hospital, those minutes could mean brain cell death for your child, which is irreversible and you have been prevented had the mom been in the hospital.

But if she did have one of the forms of galactosemia, continuing to nurse could cause irreversible damage.

Even if these unknown guarantees were to be accepted, however, restoration is but a euphemism in this case given the fact that the environmental damage caused to the Rosia Montana region would be irreversible.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

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 we remain timid and hold back the engine of ingenuity, we could experience unimaginable and irreversible consequences.

If left unchecked, climate change will increase the likelihood of severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.

Once the pressure has surpassed a certain threshold, the amorphization process becomes irreversible and the material can no longer return to a crystalline configuration,» said Caetano Rodrigues Miranda, a professor at the University of São Paulo's Physics Institute (IF - USP) and lead author of the article.

«We don't know for certain if the damage is irreversible, but I expect so, because the cells that hold the internal structure in place have been infected and destroyed,» said Diamond, who is also a professor of pathology and immunology, and of molecular microbiology.

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.

The other major shortcoming of many ionic EAPs (especially the ionomeric polymer - metal composites) is that «as long as the electricity is on, the material will keep moving,» Bar - Cohen notes, adding: «If the voltage is above a certain level, electrolysis takes place, which causes irreversible damage to the material.»

If the world's population grows as predicted and human activity stays unchanged, science and technology may be powerless to prevent widespread poverty and irreversible damage to the environment.

«Washington State will need to respond vigorously to ocean acidification if we are going to avoid significant and possibly irreversible losses,» concluded the report from the Blue Ribbon Panel, which was co-chaired by former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief William Ruckelshaus.

THE MOTIVE If a gene mutation hinders brain development, the resulting mental retardation is usually considered irreversible.

If the grounding line retreat is irreversible, how did the grounding line advance as far as it did in the first place?

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.

If ice sheet disintegration reaches a point such that the dynamics and momentum of the process take over, at that point reducing greenhouse gases may be unable to prevent major ice sheet mass loss, sea level rise of many meters, and worldwide loss of coastal cities — a consequence that is irreversible for practical purposes.

Twelve percent of the subjects, all of whom were vegans, had stage IV B12 deficiency.29 Even though the average length of time the subjects had followed the raw food diet was only 3.6 years, over half the vegans were developing pernicious anemia; if many of them were eating folate - rich diets, the proportion of vegans developing irreversible nervous system degeneration might have been even higher than the proportion the study suggested were suffering from severe deficiency.

As I mentioned earlier, if you have not yet entered an irreversible pathologic state, there is still much hope for treating functional blood sugar disorders.

Although there was no improvement in nerve function seen in this study, researchers speculate that treatment with ALA might help improve nerve function if it's started when people first have symptoms of nerve pain, before they develop irreversible nerve damage.

Now if I can just get my knees moving too, but I do have irreversible damage there.

Researchers think alpha lipoic acid might prevent nerve damage if you start taking it early, before you have irreversible nerve damage.

If a woman doesn't consume enough iodine in the early stages of pregnancy, causing her to have hypothyroidism, this will cause irreversible brain damage to her baby.

We know with confidence that long - term ketosis poses substantial risk for health complications because thousands of children have followed ketogenic diets over the years as a means of suppressing intractable grand mal seizures unresponsive to drugs and procedures, seizures that can lead to irreversible brain damage if not stopped.