Sentences with phrase «passed point of no return»

Pass your point of no return.

And even though these coastal glaciers have passed the point of no return, the researchers predict it's unlikely they'll melt entirely until 2100 — when that happens it's estimated that it will raise global sea levels by around 3.8 cm (1.5 inches).

Which means researchers now know what to look for so that we don't also miss this vital ice sheet passing the point of no return.

There's a point with all fans where Wenger would have passed the point of no return.

The Brazilian combined extremely poor form with even worse decision - making off the field of play, to eventually pass the point of no return.

But you keep doing it, because by after so long you have passed the point of no return.

Logically, I knew that she was acting this way because she was so tired and had passed the point of no return, but still I felt my frustration growing inside me.

The research suggests that for a large portion of WAIS, this process «has passed the point of no return,» says Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine, the lead author of one of the studies.

«These glaciers will keep retreating for decades and even centuries to come and we can't stop it,» said lead study author Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «A large sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has passed the point of no return.»

The study found we may have already passed the point of no return for some cities and will do so in the next few decades for others, as greenhouse gases gradually change climate, glacier cover and sea level.

The accelerated loss of sea ice should come as no surprise given that another study presented at the AGU meeting found accelerated Arctic warming (see NSIDC: Arctic melt passes the point of no return, «We hate to say we told you so, but we did»):

Therefore, it's time to jump on the anti-aging train before I pass the point of no return, ya feel me?

As it stands now, America has passed the point of no return.

Normally this wouldn't be the most important of things with an MPV, but remember, this is BMW's first front - driver, and you'd want to know if it's worthy of the propeller badge, or if they've passed the point of no return.

In this secondary stage, the bone marrow and other tissue have become infected with FeLV and the condition has passed the point of no return.

ut while this particular «Oh, shit» moment is clearly unnerving for the Max Mara executives, who have passed the point of no return on this project, for Liu, it is in fact a necessary step in the creative process.

... Oh, I forgot to mention that the Great Cause is more urgent than ever, as we have passed the point of no return (or at least no economic returns to the grassroots populace).

Their abandonment of any pretense of scientific endeavor means that they long ago passed the point of no return.

Is this evidence that we will pass the point of no return?

Serreze said, «The sea ice cover is in a downward spiral and may have passed the point of no return.

Global climate change might well have passed the point of no return by now if it weren't for the good old MP (as we at EIA like to call it).

It would be foolish, however, for me or anyone to demand 100 % proof of huge forthcoming damage to the world if that outcome seemed at all possible and if prompt action had even a small chance of thwarting the danger... if there is only a 1 % chance the planet is heading toward a truly major disaster and delay means passing a point of no return, inaction now is foolhardy.

Climate Central has the graphic: Ice sheets may have already passed point of no return - environment - 25 June 2014 THE cracks are beginning to show.

* To avoid unacceptable risk of passing a point of no return beyond which explosive feedbacks (icecaps melting etc) are inevitable, we should aim to reduce CO2 concentrations to 350 ppm by 2100.

It has passed the point of no return.

About 40 years of observations indicate the glaciers in the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica «have passed the point of no return,» glaciologist and lead author Eric Rignot said in a news release.

Rignot's study looked at more than four decades of observations of the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica, which Rignot said has «passed the point of no return.»

«It has passed the point of no return,» the research team's leader, Eric Rignot of the University of California at Irvine, told reporters during a NASA teleconference on Monday.

We've overstretched our climate budget so far many fear we've passed the point of no return.

Once you pass the point of no return, there's little you can do but experience the nightmare.

It sounds like your wife has passed the point of no return and is not willing to look back.

Maybe you have passed the point of no return.

If you find the deal first and then look for investors, you won't have enough time to raise the money you need before you pass the point of no return.

Not exact matches

Greenland's coastal glaciers and ice caps have passed a pivotal tipping point — a new study concludes that they've melted so much that they're now past the point of no return, and it's unlikely in current conditions that they'll be able to regrow the ice they've lost.

After the momentum passes a certain point, there will be no return, even if many members of the Notre Dame community then see and regret what they have allowed to happen.

The world moved in cycles of various frequencies, returning to the points it had passed before.

But wenger's time and you all is passed and soon you will be kicked out of this great Football team before you destroyed it to the point of no return.

To return to point above, we have all these speedy, unskilled players in skill demanding positions that is set up for quick passing, counterattacking football, but the other problem is Arsenal plays perhaps the slowest brand of football around (NO WONDER WE CANT SCORE).

He also punted, kicked field goals and extra points, returned kicks and completed 14 of 19 passes, four for touchdowns.

And then Stephen Garcia completed 17 of 20 passes for three touchdowns and a 208.9 passer rating, and Alabama returned to Tuscaloosa with a 14 - point loss.

But 11 races passed before he returned to the points as Toro Rosso found themselves at the tail of a congested midfield.

He said the «point of no return» had already passed, adding that there would be «no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to re-join it by the back door and no second referendum».

Even if we could adequately explain past math research's impact relative to this counter-factual, who's to say we haven't already passed the point of diminishing returns to math research?

But mainstream Democrats pointed out that the return of Felder meant that an agreement could still pass over the IDC's resistance, and called on their erstwhile colleagues to join them in skipping session and denying the GOP the 38 - member quorum needed to pass any budget bills.

The Assembly should heed the call of the governor and return to Albany immediately to pass the nine vital points already adopted by the state Senate.

For Liberal Democrats, the uncomfortable truth may be that the point of no return has already passed.

Under the newly passed Revenue Administration Bill, 2016, there is a penalty for failing to file tax return; section 73 (1) stipulates that: «A person who fails to file a tax return as required by a tax law is liable to pay a penalty of five hundred currency points and a further penalty of ten currency points for each day that the failure continues.»

According to general relativity calculations, as one passes the event horizon (the point of no return) of a black hole, space and time switch roles.

This isn't a physical barrier but a point of no return: objects that pass beyond it can never escape the black hole (but see below to understand how quantum mechanics undermines that idea).

Slow feedbacks are important because they affect climate sensitivity and because their instigation is related to the danger of passing «points of no return», beyond which irreversible consequences become inevitable, out of humanity's control.