Sentences with phrase «of irreversible collapse»

Glaciologists identified massive sections of Antarctic land ice that had reached the point of irreversible collapse.

Still, the standard view of irreversible collapse works pretty well in practice.

Not exact matches

The report mentions that the explosion would have caused significant flooding in Kent, but that the nuclear option would be «100 per cent effective» at ensuring «totally irreversible total collapse, rupture [of] tunnel and seabed to cause total flooding and complete collapse of part of tunnel.»

When scientists talk about the «collapse» of an ice sheet, they mean irreversible, rapidly increased rates of recession.

The study may foreshadow the coming of a potential «irreversible collapse» of modern society.

Knowledge of these thresholds is key to the sustainable management of ecosystems and to anticipating irreversible changes and / or ecological collapse,» wrote Alfredo Huete, a researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia, in an accompanying commentary on the study in Nature.

Beard's The Unnatural State, selected for PROJECT 2017, is a study of the decay and dilapidation of industrial and agricultural buildings, attempting to capture these irreversible changes before the structures» inevitable collapse.

Many important questions of environmental policy, however, involve inescapably uncertain outcomes... How much global warming will it take to trigger the irreversible collapse and melting of the Greenland ice sheet?»

The most terrifying part of these studies is the irreversible nature of the collapse, and the inevitable rise in sea level.

And the result will be ever - escalating wars for control of dwindling oil supplies, ever - escalating destruction of ecosystems, and irreversible, runaway catastrophic global warming, until the whole house of cards that constitutes the present - day «American way of life» collapses, in a very painful and ugly fashion.

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.

2015 Researchers find collapse of West Antarctic ice sheet is irreversible, will bring meters of sea - level rise over future centuries.

For example, the weakening of the THC under 1 degree of warming, a risk of collapse for 3 degrees, risk of irreversible melting of the Greenland Ice sheet at 2 degrees warming, sea level changes of 5 — 12 meters over several centuries, — these eventualities are debatable, and should certainly be viewed as the «adverse tail» of possible impacts.

Their teams of marine scientists, economists, lawyers and advocates win specific and concrete policy changes to reduce pollution and to prevent the irreversible collapse of fish populations, marine mammals and other sea life.

Recently, the news about the climate crisis has included some hard things to read — like the announcement by scientists that the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet is now irreversible.