Sentences with phrase «large irreversible change»
Thus, because ocean warming is persistent for centuries, there is a danger that large irreversible change could be initiated by excessive ocean warming.
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Thus, because ocean warming is persistent for centuries, there is a danger that large irreversible change could be initiated by excessive ocean warming.
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«There is broad consensus that the further and the faster the Earth system is pushed towards warming, the greater the risk of unanticipated changes and impacts, some of which are potentially large and irreversible,» according to the report.
For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.
Will they support the wellbeing of our own and other species or will they provide a context for further large - scale extinctions and irreversible climate change?»
The draft report says it is «very likely» that the past three decades have all been warmer than any time in the past 800 years; that we could see almost 9 °C of warming by 2300; and that «a large fraction of climate change is largely irreversible on human timescales».
Unless a human «tipping point» is reached soon, with implementation of effective policy actions, large irreversible climate changes will become unavoidable.
The danger of uncontrollable and irreversible consequences necessarily raises the question of whether it is feasible to extract CO2 from the atmosphere on a large enough scale to affect climate change.
Specifically, they say: «The implication is that, in the absence of efficient, large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon (emphasis mine), carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future result in a commitment to climate change that will be irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.»
The sentence I just quoted implies pretty strongly that, in the presence of efficient (or for that matter inefficient) large - scale capture and storage of airborne carbon, carbon emissions that have already occurred or will occur in the near future might not result in a commitment to climate change that is irreversible on timescales of centuries to millennia and longer.
There are enough resources on this planet to allow everyone to live a good and healthy life without making large and irreversible changes to Earth's climate.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with a membership of 121,200 scientists and «science supporters» globally, just released an 18 - page report confirming that the world is at growing risk of «abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes» due to climate change.
Human - induced warming is likely to lead to large - scale and potentially irreversible changes in physical systems such as the oceans and the cryosphere (regions covered by snow or ice).
On the text on a large fraction of climate change being irreversible on a multi-century to millennial time scale, the Russian Federation observed that global warming was reversible as opposed to CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere that were not.
Large - scale singular events are abrupt or irreversible changes within the climate system.
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.
The danger of uncontrollable and irreversible consequences necessarily raises the question of whether it is feasible to extract CO2 from the atmosphere on a large enough scale to affect climate change.
CTPs are irreversible, uncertain events that can be triggered by climate - change - induced high temperatures and that cause large damages or disruptions to the climate system.
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.