Sentences with phrase «largely irreversible»

This paper shows that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop.

«The impact of human activities on the Yangtze water ecology is largely irreversible,» says Yang Guishan, a researcher of the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The 2008 paper, Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions, by Solomon et al., says that the climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration is largely irreversible for 1,000 years after emissions stop, due to the thermal inertia of the oceans.

The change in sea ice is largely irreversible, and substantial cooling is required to reestablish the original sea ice cover.

The core panel conclusion, of course, is that rich and developing nations are way behind on what would need to be done to avoid substantial and largely irreversible (on meaningful time scales) warming of the climate.

If the climate silence and inaction continues, it may well be the story of the millennium — see NOAA: Climate change «largely irreversible for 1000 years,» with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe.

Between the poles of real - time catastrophe and nonevent lies the prevailing scientific view: Without big changes in emissions rates, global warming from the buildup of greenhouse gases is likely to lead to substantial, and largely irreversible, transformations of climate, ecosystems and coastlines later this century.

Another is that some of the underlying problems related to humanity's impact on the environment are largely irreversible.

The Great Depression of the 1930s did largely irreversible damage to the colony, and unemployment was only exacerbated by a 1931 hurricane that leveled towns and killed over 1,000 people.

It is largely irreversible; once women as a culture stop having children, they don't start having more when benefits are offered or penalties are lowered.

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».

An exit from the euro is largely irreversible,» he said.

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For instance, the pain of losing a loved one consists largely of the irreversible separation from that person; the broken relationship is the essential meaning of death.

These environmental costs have been largely neglected in the drive to meet the nation's growing energy needs, the researchers say, and might lock China on an irreversible and unsustainable path for decades to come.

If we allow sustained global average temperature increases of more than 1 degree Celsius, we will suffer irreversible climate destabilization and a planet largely inhospitable to human civilization.