Sentences with phrase «major tipping point»

There are also additional risks that climate change could lead to the breaching of major tipping points, such as the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet or rapid loss of the Greenland ice sheet, leading to extreme sea level rises.

(The evidence indicates that 6 degrees of warming is likely to set in motion several major tipping points — not only slower ones such as the aforementioned breakdown of the West Antarctic ice sheet, but possibly more abrupt ones, like massive releases of methane from Arctic permafrost.)

Debaltseve is emerging as a major tipping point in the war in Ukraine.

This would allow us to begin to understand how we could prevent some of the major tipping point problems that we can already foresee coming, even for 1.5 C warming, and to try and understand what it would take to protect and sustain important natural ecosystems such as coral reefs, or to prevent ice sheet disintegration.

It's your first date and you are anxious, as might be expected because this is a major tipping point in your attempts at getting yourself a new partner.

However nothing is fixed, and because renewable energy has fallen so much in price, and because of the recent record setting temperatures, the views of the public and politicians are likely near a major tipping point of change.

To begin to understand how we prevent some of the major tipping point problems that we can already foresee coming even for 1.5 C of warming.

In just a few short years, we have seen a major tipping point occur in the legal industry.