Sentences with phrase «such tipping points»

While remediation might have to work much harder to push the system back over such tipping points, it would have a much better chance of working than mitigation.

The first report knew, and commented on, the possibilities of gradual climate change pushing ecosystems or economies over thresholds and triggering abrupt responses, but the new report focuses on such tipping points in our societies and environment.

As he has put it: «We must hedge against crossing such tipping points by making the transition this century, as quickly as we can, from the Greenhouse - Gas - Emission Age to the Post-Greenhouse-Gas-Emission Age.

With incarceration, the researchers suspected one such tipping point might be the longer sentences typically given to black offenders.

The consequent melting of the Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Shield could lead to one such tipping point scenario, possibly a sea level rise of up to 0.5 meters by 2050.

Such a tipping point, for example, would be an ice free Arctic, which could happen within two decades or less (some scientists believe as early as 2013).

By using conceptual arguments, we review the recent findings that such a tipping point probably does not exist for the loss of Arctic summer sea ice.

Not exact matches

In other situations, such as trying to extrapolate numbers on current trends or predicting the tipping point of technologies, things get a bit dicier.

In a heated discussion on Reddit this week, social engineer Chris Hadnagy, who tests the network security of companies using tactics such as phishing and keylogging scams, shared his tips on cybersecurity from a hacker's point of view.

But there is definitely such a thing as too much of a good thing and I think we're getting pretty close to the tipping point.

According to Rhoades, «if there is such a thing as a tipping point — this is it.»

Heck, maybe Bill has been reading my blog, because some of the points he makes I have made on this blog (Such as this point about a Pastor Leaving no Tip).

But in a region where no dish goes without a spicy condiment, Indonesians are reluctant to turn their backs on such an ingrained culinary staple, making the cost of chile peppers a possible tipping point in the future of Southeast Asia's economic and social stability.

Super Tip for Cooking Fresh Pumpkin: As pumpkins have such thick skins they can be difficult to cut through, so I actually just put the pumpkin whole in the oven and let it cook for half an hour, after which point it is easy to cut through and scoop out the flesh.

Industries such as restaurants, nail salons and car washes face a tipping point with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to examine changing the state's rules for compensating their workers.

There may come a tipping point when voters become suspicious of why the Tories keep targeting unemployment support, especially when bigger savings can be found from ending unnecessary benefits to wealthier pensioners such as free TV licences and winter fuel payments.»

We can identify many other such dangerous «tipping points ``.

Furthermore, the model suggests that passing some tipping points increases the likelihood of other tipping points occurring to such an extent that the social cost of carbon would further increase abruptly.

Slight variations of this problem appear in many other areas of research, such as DNA sequencing, moving an automated soldering tip to many soldering points, or routing packets of data through processing nodes.

According to the so - called influentials hypothesis, made popular by books such as The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, a small number of highly influential people drive most of the spread.

Mathematically, it turns out, the shift from a healthy state to a depressed state resembles other so - called tipping points — moments of critical mass where a system, such as changes to Earth's climate or a social trend — shift rapidly from one state to another.

«Our next goal is to acquire detailed information about such climate tipping points on human timescales, decades to a century,» van der Bilt says.

Taken together, such compelling evidence points to SLC38A9 as an amino acid sensor, tipping off the Rags to the availability of nutrients.

This is essentially a tipping point event or a GAIA revenge event you might say but in scientific terms it is a + ve feedback event of which there appears to be many such possibilities including the following:

If there were a bad design flaw in a thermostat, such that temperatures over 100 F turned the furnace on, that room's climate would have a tipping point ~ 100 F and the room would get hard to cool whenever temperatures rose over that («positive feedback,» at least for awhile.)

With further sea level rise, nuisance flooding could reach a tipping point, defined by NOAA scientists as the point when there are 30 days of such floods a year.

Logical debaters would point out the hopelessness of the endeavor and suggest that a different, proven approach, such as using a diamond - tipped drill to drill a hole through the beam would be necessary to accomplish the task.

They can include not only a genetic predisposition, but also food sensitivities (gluten and dairy being the most common offenders), environmental chemicals (such as those found in plastics), leaky gut, viral or bacterial infections, brain injury or degeneration, and, when a woman's immune system is already likely at the tipping point, pregnancy.

Bonus tip: You can actually use higher reps with triceps exercises, such as 20 - 25 reps.. This is because they involve such a small range of motion that you might need more reps fatigue your muscles to the point you need them to show, Thomas says.

The pointed tip on this full - coverage twist - up conceals discoloration around hard - to - reach areas such as the nose and under eyes.

Such a chic print on print outfit and especially like the stylish pointed tip design of the wrap skirt!

Ah such great tips, I'm so obsessed with your blog lately such amazing content and your images are on point!

I hadn't thought of the tipping over factor, but that's such a great point!

We also feel that user education is important, and display safety tips at key points on our site, such as the mail system, while also maintaining an extensive web guide to safe online dating.

The series of Power Point lessons, includes learning objectives such as vocal, physical exercises, line learning tips, creating different video game characters, as well as a role on the wall template and «Character worksheet».

I don't agree with all their points — like answering all email messages within an hour — but they do provide some valuable tips such as, «Answer all questions, and pre-empt further questions.»

Here are some tips on writing narrative essays: narrative essay is written about personal emotions and memories in the form of a story; narrative essay is a story from the author's point of view, therefore all elements of telling (such as setting, plot, character, climax and ending) should be Continue reading

Once the product reaches a certain tipping point, it goes viral, such as the case of Locke.

Should the Kindle be filling Christmas stockings come December, it could be the tipping point for the ebook market, which has yet to take off in Britain despite the availability of other readers, such as the Sony Reader PRS - 505 review and Interead Cool - er.

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Shapes with pointed tips, such as pear and marquise, will trap color at the tips.

The company offers retailers point - of - purchase displays such as the Sherpa Shipper, which provides a space efficient way to merchandise a range of carriers, tips and information, and one carrier out of the box for customers to touch and feel.

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Visitors to Boracay tend to refer to the «boat stations» along White Beach as geographical reference points, even as the new jetty at Boracay's eastern tip has made such stations obsolete.

Be sure to check out our other Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery guides for more tips and tricks, such as how to get more energy and how to earn House Points.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as «SoundSpill,» Zabludowicz Collection, New York (2013), «With the Tip of a Hat,» the Artist's Institute, New York (2012), «Novel,» a screening for Time Again hosted by the Sculpture Center, New York (2011), «Outrageous Fortune: artists remake the Tarot,» Hayward Touring / Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2011), and «The Great White Way Goes Black,» Vilma Gold, London (2011).

In such «dialectical laboratories» the visitor is recruited as the «meridian» at the tipping point of reciprocities and inversions, situated within a «Kippfigur» at the hinge between figures and grounds.

# 5 Martin Pierard, I wouldn't think of a single global tipping point as such, what's important in this respect are the different climate subsystems.