Sentences with phrase «reach irreversible tipping points»

At some point, we reach irreversible tipping points that wipe humanity (and maybe all other species) off the planet.

Charging businesses and individuals a rising and transparent price for carbon dioxide emissions is essential to reduce U.S. emissions quickly and steeply enough to prevent atmospheric concentrations of CO2 from reaching an irreversible tipping point.

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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.

For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

Unless a human «tipping point» is reached soon, with implementation of effective policy actions, large irreversible climate changes will become unavoidable.

Can we reach the political tipping point that will enable us to cut carbon emissions before we reach the point where the melting of the Himalayan glaciers becomes irreversible?

The HFC phase - down will help slow climate change and sea level rise, as well as prevent the world from reaching irreversible climatic «tipping points.»

Greenland's ice melt is a key concern: If we reach a tipping point there, with a certain degree of warming, that could cause sea levels to rise and have irreversible impacts for the next millennium.

With concerted effort, the United States and China can work with the 111 countries already committed to a phase - down under the Montreal Protocol, to slow climate change and sea level rise, as well as prevent the world from reaching irreversible climatic «tipping points.»

Hey, guys, let's cobble together a «globally and annually averaged hand - picked land and sea surface temperature» construct, so we can figure out when we'll reach our «irreversible tipping point»..

Since not all screening firms belong to the NAPBS, the overall industry rate is less than 10 percent, but that number is certainly an indication that accreditation has reached a tipping point where the trend seems irreversible.