Sentences with phrase «practical point of no return»

And yet, as climate blogger Joe Romm explained after the Nature study came out, we may have reached a practical point of no return.

Not exact matches

He's developing an argument about the significance of the doctrine of the resurrection by discussing the logical consequence of denying it (verses 12 - 19), going on a very typical Pauline digression almost as if he's overcome by joy at the positive truth and has to triumphantly proclaim it (verses 20 - 28) then finally returning to drive home the practical point again (verses 29 - 35).

This point, combined with the previous one, means that he can talk about the causal influence, for example, of molecules within the cell upon the cell's series of living occasions, which can for practical purposes be regarded as the «cell as a whole,» and he can speak about the returned causal influence of the living occasions upon the molecular constituents.

Some practical points: Try to engage in the comment section of your blog as much as possible, and try to create a safe and constructive atmosphere there so that people will return.

She pointed to the results of the OECD's 2015 PISA survey, which foundthat practical science experiments are negatively associated with pupil attainment — forcing authorities to return to test scores as the main means of judging what types of lessons are worthwhile.

An auctioned cap or a tax with 100 % return of the proceeds to the people is the most practical policy for several reasons: (a) it would begin real carbon reductions quickly; (b) it would be an honest and transparent way of treating the American people; (c) it would attract the broadest attainable political coalition across party lines; (d) it would be administratively simple for both the government and the private sector (with the tax or auctioned permits collected at the first point of sale or import of the carbon - containing fuel); (e) it would be a non-regressive way of introducing the carbon price into the economy; and (f) it would avoid a fiasco such as the special interest feeding frenzy that surrounded the recently failed Boxer - Lieberman - Warner bill in Congress.