Sentences with phrase «potentially irreversible»

while the public is becoming aware that climate change is increasing the likelihood of certain local disasters, many people do not yet understand that there is a small, but real chance of abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes with highly damaging impacts on people in the United States and around the world.

[ii] The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

But we consider it to be our responsibility as professionals to ensure, to the best of our ability, that people understand what we know: human - caused climate change is happening, we face risks of abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes, and responding now will lower the risk and cost of taking action.

We are at risk of pushing our climate system toward abrupt, unpredictable, and potentially irreversible changes with highly damaging impacts.

If, however, the carbon from these reserves were burned wantonly without the government applying any brakes, scientists predicted an intolerable rise in atmospheric temperatures, triggering potentially irreversible global damage to life on earth.»

The impacts could be potentially irreversible.

The presentation noted «potentially irreversible» impacts that could include «significant loss of life.»

The Guardian: The world is at growing risk of «abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes» because of a warming climate, America's premier scientific society warned on Tuesday.

even in the best case scenario, business as usual fossil fuel burning will almost certainly commit us to more than 2C (3.6 F) warming, an amount of warming that scientists who study climate change impacts tell us will lead to truly dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change.

The message of the latest IPCC report is clear: Climate change is real and caused by humans, and we will see far more dangerous and potentially irreversible impacts if we do not reduce global carbon emissions.

We call on all people and nations to recognize the serious and potentially irreversible impacts of global warming caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and by changes in forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other land uses.

It is based on when most of the globe will be exposed to potentially irreversible climate changes.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science acknowledged this brilliantly earlier this year, releasing an 18 - page report consisting of «just the facts,» which confirmed that the world is at growing risk of «abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes» due to climate change.

Human - induced warming is likely to lead to large - scale and potentially irreversible changes in physical systems such as the oceans and the cryosphere (regions covered by snow or ice).

In one of the original climate lawsuits, filed in 2008 on behalf of the Alaskan village of Kivalina, the plaintiffs made the same claims as New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco — including the specific citation of «potentially irreversible» impacts and a «significant loss of life» as a result of climate change.

The filings mention an «internal» presentation from 1996, in which the GCC allegedly claimed there were «potentially irreversible» impacts from climate change, which could include «significant loss of life.»

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with a membership of 121,200 scientists and «science supporters» globally, just released an 18 - page report confirming that the world is at growing risk of «abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes» due to climate change.

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.

The idea (quoted in the United Nations Environmental Programme report) that in order to be reasonably sure of avoiding dangerous and potentially irreversible climate change, a minimum of a 50 % cut in global emissions compared with 1990 levels is required by 2050, is based firmly on the IPCC - led consensus, contrary to the impression you appear to have.

Very small ingestions of two or three petals or leaves — or even pollen licked off a cat's coat — can result in severe, potentially irreversible kidney failure.

It is important to remember that it does not always work, and the prolongation of other treatment modalities should not be undertaken due to the severe and potentially irreversible nature of this disease.

There are no preventive measures for hyperthyroidism, but early detection helps so that potentially irreversible changes don't occur.

Small ingestions of two or three petals or leaves — even the pollen — can result in severe, potentially irreversible kidney failure.

Annual blood and urine tests are important in all cats over age six to detect hyperthyroidism before potentially irreversible damage occurs.

King recently wrote an informative article for on The Conscious Cat about one of the most common conditions affecting cats the U.S which has potentially irreversible health consequences: obesity.

King recently wrote an informative article for on The Conscious Cat about one of the most common conditions affecting cats the U.S which has potentially irreversible health consequences: -LSB-...]

Malnutrition, on the other hand, negatively affects brain growth (both in utero and during infancy) and can have potentially irreversible implications for intellectual development.21 Animal sources of vitamin A play a particularly crucial role in fetal development.

Tooth trauma or dental caries can lead to the inflammation of dental pulp tissue, the all too familiar pain of toothache, and potentially irreversible damage.

This implies that the urban environment imposes a challenge to developing birds, with potentially irreversible effects on lifespan.

«Such range shifts are potentially irreversible, with great impacts on ecosystems.»

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

But using it now as your daughter's only source of nourishment could lead to serious and potentially irreversible nutritional deficiencies», says Dr. Judy Hopkinson, a lactation physiologist with the USDA / ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine.

However, there is enough evidence to conclude there is a risk from arsenic, and given the fact that exposures are widespread, from a public health standpoint, waiting to act until additional studies are conducted will fail protect children from potentially irreversible harm.

Gene drive technology poses serious and potentially irreversible threats to biodiversity, as well as national sovereignty, peace, and food security.This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium on the controversial genetic extinction... more

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«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.

Liver cirrhosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, with complications such as HE resulting in recurrent emergency hospitalizations, irreversible brain injury, and a poor prognosis.2 - 5 There is some evidence that HE patients have a reduced relative abundance of certain beneficial gut microbiota (e.g. Lachnospiraceae and Ruminococcaceae) and an enrichment of potentially pathogenic Enterobacteriaceae ¬ - a microbial profile that has been linked to cognitive impairment and systemic inflammation in cirrhotic patients with HE.1 Faecal microbiota transplants have been used successfully to correct dysbiotic conditions such as recurrent Clostridium difficile and ulcerative colitis,6 - 8 and a preliminary report suggested that FMT may be promising in the management of HE.9

Matt's now facing twin challenges: the potentially lucrative sale of a prime parcel of land and the impending death of his wife, Elizabeth (Hastie), who lies in an irreversible coma after a boating accident.

The cat eats a bit of any part of the flower, petals, stems, or even just sniffs the pollen, and can suffer irreversible, potentially fatal, kidney damage as a result.

Even mild gingivitis can potentially lead to irreversible damage and the possibility of future extractions if left untreated.

Table 12.4: Components in the Earth system that have been proposed in the literature as potentially being susceptible to abrupt or irreversible change.

In this section we examine the main components or phenomena within the Earth system that have been proposed in the literature as potentially being susceptible to abrupt or irreversible change (see Table 12.4).

It concluded: «On planned policies, rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change».

Once someone with sufficient resources, influence and power manages to convince himself that something MUST be done and be done SOON, or the human race (complete with all those innocent grandchildren) is doomed, then the door is open to anyone susceptible enough to buy into that level of sheer panic and hysteria, and wealthy enough to act on those fears, to initiate some potentially destructive and irreversible scheme along the lines suggested by our well meaning but naive colleague, Mr. McDonald.

The result is thresholds of exposure to potentially harmful substances below which there is no irreversible damage.

As a result, harmful substances can begin to build up in your liver which can then «potentially» lead to irreversible scarring of the liver tissue (cirrhosis).

But the cryptocurrency has many other characteristics that potentially make it interesting to a much more mainstream user - base — such as the fact transactions are irreversible, something of potential interest to online retailers wanting to avoid the hassle of chargebacks.