Sentences with phrase «of irreversible change»

The choice of a stabilization level implies the balancing of the risks of climate change (risks of gradual change and of extreme events, risk of irreversible change of the climate, including risks for food security, ecosystems and sustainable development) against the risk of response measures that may threaten economic sustainability.

to motivate viewers to take action by showing how places they know and love are at risk of irreversible change.

Buenos Aires — based artist and designer Alexandra Kehayoglou uses hand - tufted wool rugs to draw into focus landscapes under threat of irreversible change.

Criteria (v): be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land - use, or seause which is representative of a culture or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change

«There are thresholds of irreversible change out there, we don't know where they are,» Stanford's Schneider notes.

Some of the irreversible changes in men include breast development or

Some of the irreversible changes in men include breast development or gynecomastia, and baldness.

Risks of irreversible changes increase with warming

Of the many heat - trapping gases, CO2 puts us at the greatest risk of irreversible changes if it continues to accumulate unabated in the atmosphere — as it is likely to do if the global economy remains dependent on fossil fuels for its energy needs.

How such a warming would impact the probability of irreversible changes to elements of the climate system (melting ice sheets, reversal or slowing of ocean currents, release of carbon in permafrost) is unknown.

It includes the likelihood of irreversible changes to societies and to nature, and even a small chance of catastrophe.

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So neither did they take the «danger» out, nor modify their view of irreversible changes.

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The permanent displacement of millions of Syrians is one way in which its war and others in the region are causing irreversible changes.

«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.»

The city council said it needs time to consider zoning laws and lighting regulations «before commercial cryptocurrency mining operations results in irreversible change to the character and direction of the city.»

«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.

This free church model, with its populist overtones, is being borne, Volf maintains, «by irreversible social changes of global proportions.»

The complexity of our problem, in short, arises from our situation in an historical process subject to time and change, irreversible in direction, in which the past is never wholly dead, but remains unalterably part of the situation we have to face in the present.

As 500 BCE marks the central point of the First Axial Period, so the 18th century Enlightenment marks the irreversible threshold of change by which the Second Axial Period brought us into the modern world.

The new language has spread horizontally to all parts of the world and is vertically sinking in the fabric of societies, operating irreversible cultural change.

But the change of scale is not enough in itself to explain the sudden and irreversible rise of the industrial phenomenon which we see taking place around us.

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«For the sake of future generations who could be harmed by irreversible climate change, I urge New Yorkers to reject this fear mongering and uphold science against ideology,» he said in a statement.

Deforestation of the Amazon is about to reach a threshold beyond which the region's tropical rainforest may undergo irreversible changes that transform the landscape into degraded savanna with sparse shrubby plant cover and low biodiversity.

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.

Judge Coffin says the nature, facts and drivers of climate change will be central to the case — including whether there is a threshold at which the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a tipping point locking in irreversible planetary damage.

Morrisey said in an emailed statement that the comments to DEP «further demonstrate the need for an immediate stay of the illegal Power Plan, a plan already causing real and irreversible changes on the ground in the states.»

«At one level, it just reinforces a point that we already knew: that the effects of climate change and sea level rise are irreversible and going to be with us for thousands of years,» says Williams, who did not work on the study.

A shift in geologic epoch signifies an irreversible change in this planet's history, whether the icy ages of the Pleistocene or the long summer of the Holocene.

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.

Many people have concerns about the possible use of genome editing in humans, for example, about the risks of unintended effects due to off target DNA alterations, and the implications of making irreversible changes that will be passed on to future generations.

Some of the most alarming experiments demonstrate that genetically engineered biological agents can provoke irreversible changes in the nervous system and the brain.

The consequences of such initiative were disastrous: Protected from hunting for 35 years, and devoid of natural predators, the beavers grew over 5,000 times their initial population, caused irreversible changes in the forest ecosystem, and started advancing over the continent.

The twin imperatives of technological advancement and counterterrorism have led to dramatic and possibly irreversible changes in what people can expect to remain of private life.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's assessment was expected to say that «global warming is irreversible without massive geoengineering of...

«Compared to the imminent risk of irreversible climate change impacts, the risks of mitigation are manageable» said Sokona.

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

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.

Anthracycline drugs, such as doxorubicin, are known to cause heart failure because they cause changes in the DNA structure of the heart muscle cells, leading to irreversible cardiac damage.

This sector of Antarctica has long been identified as the most vulnerable to changes in climate and, according to recent assessments, its glaciers may have passed a point of irreversible retreat.

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?»

Pesticides still abound, we're in the midst of a human - made mass extinction and decades of warnings about irreversible climate change appear to have fallen on deaf ears.

This light was no more than a flash because, along with the electrical excitation of the silicon skeleton, irreversible chemical changes take place: the internal surface of the pores is immediately covered in a layer of insulating silicon oxide, which stops further electrical excitation.

These irreversible changes have contributed to the demise and extinction of many populations and species of plants and animals.

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».

The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, a progressive, irreversible brain disease that results in impaired cognitive functioning and other behavioural changes.

The males - only guideline is intended to prevent the introduction of unwanted, irreversible genetic changes to the human species.

Mentor of the Year recipient Donahue's research focuses on developing and applying new approaches to identify early changes in tissue function that may precede irreversible damage, and in turn can be used to triage patients for early, personalized therapies.

However, further investigations are needed to clarify whether previous metabolic influences at the level of quiescent satellite cells in vivo can induce irreversible metabolic changes in cultured human myotubes.