Sentences with phrase «near the tipping point»

Given growing doctor shortages and increasing pressure for cost control, more medical care will be pushed downstream to nurse practitioners, mini-practices inside retailers» locations, and in mobile - van and in - home practices and via online, where diagnosis and issuance of prescriptions is an evolving business very near the tipping point of a boom.

«The combined finances in the federal and provincial spheres are very near the tipping point,» argued the Canadian Federation of Independent Business in a recent report.

The head of the Bank of Canada gently urged businesses to ease open the purse strings and start spending Wednesday as he said the economy was nearing a tipping point toward normal growth following the global recession.

Though the philosophical underpinnings and physical manifestations of this concept continue to be debated and refined, the world is at or near the tipping point for the total cultural adoption of ubiquitous computing.

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Because we pay less and less interest each month, we're near the tipping point.

But I'm getting near the tipping point.

Does Dr. Hurley's conversion signal that we are near the tipping point — that moment in the history of our movement when the traction and influence we have been gaining tip the balance of power and momentum in favor of No Kill, away from death and toward ever greater lifesaving?

«In light of these factors, the PlayStation 3 probably is already at or near the tipping point for profitability,» said Andrew Rassweiler, director and principal analyst for iSuppli.

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My take is that 1.95 C would not be very different from 2.0 C, unless that happens to be right near some tipping point.

Our home planet is dangerously near a tipping point at which human - made greenhouse gases reach a level where major climate changes can proceed mostly under their own momentum.

The earth is near a tipping point where human emissions will certainly result in runaway catastrophic warming, mass extinctions and dangerous unprecedented weather events.

Don't get me wrong, I don't buy into the AGW alarmist story that we are anywhere near a tipping point or even that human CO2 and land use activities are responsible for most of the warming we have experienced in the past 150 years.

«The climate is nearing tipping points,» the NASA climate scientist James E. Hansen wrote in The Observer newspaper of London.

That in turn might be set up by the albedo or whatever else amplifies the 1,500 - year cycle, thus poising the climate near the tipping point, setting things up for a quick slide.

But the idea that the planet is nearing tipping points — thresholds at which change suddenly becomes unstoppable — has driven a wedge between scientists who otherwise share deep concerns about the implications of a human - warmed climate...

So the question is — are we near a tipping point?

Tipping points are in the news these days because some of the well - known scientists who are concerned about global warming keep telling us that the Earth — the Earth's global environment, that is — is nearing a tipping point.

That we are rapidly nearing the tipping point and that unless we take painful action immediately, temperatures will run away from us.

Going Off Grid Nears Tipping Point, Morgan Stanley Reports was originally published on CleanTechnica.

That we are or near tipping points is on its way to be established.

Though it is nearing the tipping point for a rate hike, the central bank is unlikely to raise at the end of the month, for fear of endangering jobs

How do you know if we are near a tipping point?

«Earth near tipping point, climatologist warns», a Toronto Star article, says James Hansen is back to warn that the Earth is nearing a tipping point, to call for a national carbon tax and to say that CEO's of energy companies may be guilty of crimes against humanity and nature.

«After experiencing incremental improvements over the past few years, the U.S. labor market is nearing a tipping point,» says Matt Ferguson, CEO of CareerBuilder and co-author of «The Talent Equation.»

«We are near a tipping point with Ban the Box and employers should adjust to these new laws and move forward.»

Lest we lose heart, the data suggest that the United States may be nearing a tipping point for the institution of marriage.

Our economy is near a tipping point but the cycle of fear that grips our housing markets can be broken with passage of this modest tax break for home buyers.

But several panelists agreed that the data supporting such assertions is nearing a tipping point.

Just as Orlando's housing market had neared the tipping point of becoming a buyers» market, low interest rates helped boost sales and cut into what had been a mounting inventory of listings, a new report shows.Median sales prices rose from $ 165,000 in...

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Yet, despite the many bulls claiming low volatility is historically normal, and therefore not a warning sign, evidence is beginning to mount that U.S. equity markets may be near a volatility - driven tipping point.

The young left - back is being hotly - tipped to seal a move to the Reds at some point in the near future, as Jurgen Klopp continues to fine - tune his squad ahead of next season.

Following the tip off, Policemen at a check point at Hwiremoase near Obuasi junction arrested and detained the three young men who offered to pay the Police over Ghc 1000 as bribe but the policemen declined.

But, you know, the idea of pulling this altogether, of wait there may be boundaries beyond which we do not want the environment to go, either because they go in to a tipping [point] and fundamentally change or because you -LSB-'ve caused][a] near - irreversible amount of damage.

Standing on the banks of the Beaverkill River near her fabled fishing school in New York's Catskill Mountains, she raises and points the tip of an 8 1/2 - foot rod just over her shoulder, gives a sudden backward snap of the wrist and sends 40 feet of line sailing straight back behind her.

All the shells are perforated with a single hole, and the team's microscopic studies — as well as experiments with shells of the same species collected near the site — have suggested that they were punctured with a finely tipped bone point.

I'm nowhere near the girls who have 100k or so followers, but I believe that many of us can't relate with those profiles to start with, so from my humble but real point of view, I'd like to share some Instagram tips and pointers with you.

For more experienced paddlers, the waters around the tip of Ocean Point or near the Cuckold's Lighthouse provide amazing opportunities for adventure.

Dorsal fin nearly triangular to distinctly falcate, usually black with lighter grayish region of varying size near middle, tip pointed.

The route began at a turnaround next to the Old Point Loma Lighthouse in the Cabrillo National Monument, near the southern tip of Point Loma.

The Southern breaks near Cabuya and Tambor only got the energy that was able to wrap around the Cabo Blanco point at the tip of the Nicoya peninsula.

Tip: Don't forget that Manado is the nearest airport to Lembeh Strait and Bunaken, so if you want to dive there as well it makes a great stop off point.

They can signal coming extreme events (somewhere), indicate where the average is actually «heading» in near future, and signals system step changes aka tipping points dead ahead.

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.

And climate is nearing dangerous tipping points.

Reducing emissions of the short - lived climate forcers black carbon and tropospheric ozone — soot and smog — has been identified by scientists as the most effective strategy to slow Arctic warming and melting in the near term, forestalling potentially irreversible tipping points such as the melting, while the world works to reduce emissions of GHGs.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

No one who believes in science and cares about humanity can possibly believe it is rational or moral to come anywhere near 1,000 ppm or the tipping points in the carbon cycle.

I did show longer time scales on the temperature data and proxies not so much to discredit the deceiving hockey stick, but to address the overwhelming belief by the public and policy makers that the current warming is «unprecedented», «dangerous» and nearing a «tipping point».