Sentences with phrase «runaway feedback»

If an adaptive system is getting pushed hard enough, its defense systems can switch from negative to positive runaway feedback.

These are not runaway feedbacks, but together they strongly amplify the impacts in polar regions of a positive (warming) climate forcing... Augmentation of peak Holocene temperature by even 1C would be sufficient to trigger powerful amplifying polar feedbacks, leading to a planet at least as warm as in the Eemian and Holsteinian periods, making ice sheet disintegration and large sea level rise inevitable.»

So that the median lines are the shared pathway of the EMF that is controllably shunted out of the chemical reaction to allow the flexible shifts in efficiency needed to prevent uncontrolled runaway feedback or disease processes that cause death.

In fact, if we are really seeing runaway feedbacks triggered after the less than one degree of warming we have had over the last century, it boggles the mind how the Earth has staggered through the last 5 billion years without a climate runaway.

The calcium atoms activate enzymes that destroy the gates that slow the flow of sodium through the channels, so now even more sodium rushes in — and then more calcium, in a runaway feedback loop.

Both nations will have to get more aggressive and specific if there is any hope of keeping global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, the point at which climate change will likely become a runaway feedback loop.

The present paper presents a mathematical analysis of a tipping point or runaway feedback that can arise when the heat from microbial respiration is generated more rapidly than it can escape from the soil to the atmosphere.