Sentences with phrase «suggest the tipping point»

But in a second run, in which greenhouse gas levels stopped rising after 2020, the sea ice shrank until 2020 then recovered, suggesting no tipping point had been passed.

«He's suggesting a tipping point.

Nevertheless, the results suggest the tipping point is drawing closer.

An announcement two weeks ago that venture capital firm CSC Upshot raised $ 400 million to invest in startups on AngelList suggests a tipping point in crowdfunding, as it will allow small investors to mingle with angel investors, or those who back small startups or entrepreneurs, she said.

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In his book The Demon - Haunted World, the renowned astrophysicist helpfully suggested questions to ask to detect baloney, science writer Michael Shermer points out in the extremely useful video below (hat tip to Jason Kottke for the pointer).

In the post, Schranz lays out the lessons he thinks the film offers for developers and product managers (hat tip to Om Malik for leading the way to Schranz's observations and pointing out that «these learnings actually are applicable across the board at startups»), suggesting five takeaways for those pursuing excellence in entrepreneurship.

Lately, there has been more than our fair share of news suggesting that the retail industry is at a tipping point.

It's hard to suggest that his retirement is bittersweet, considering he clearly wasn't a major - league talent anymore, but maybe we should have mourned that unquantifiable tipping point at the time.

A new poll suggests Democrats in 12 Senate battleground states have made significant gains with their messaging to key demographics, putting the races at a «tipping point» where the opinion of women — specifically unmarried women — may provide the path for Democrats to maintain their hold on the Senate this November.

And «critical transitions» or «tipping points» as suggested by the planetary boundaries concept may not exist for many of the cases because those shifts, if they exist, have already happened.

(Mention of the Dipper suggests a great tip for finding Leo: the Big Dipper's two pointer stars traditionally guide us to the North Star, but if followed the wrong way — south — they point directly to the Lion.)

The collaborative study suggests that multiple interacting climate tipping points could be triggered this century if climate change isn't tackled — leading to irreversible economic damages worldwide.

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.

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.

The stone points are the right shape and size for the job, and some have fractured tips that suggest they were used as weapons.

All the shells are perforated with a single hole, and the team's microscopic studies — as well as experiments with shells of the same species collected near the site — have suggested that they were punctured with a finely tipped bone point.

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That means so - called open - access publishing has reached a «tipping point» and will now accelerate, suggests Éric Archambault, the lead author of the study and president of Science - Metrix Inc. in Montreal, Canada.

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.

It is like most other dating safety lists with tips about talking on the phone first before meeting in person and, as point 7 suggests, your first date should always be in daylight and take place around other people.

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.

The resource: - bullet points the key things students need to do in each question - suggests timings - suggests acronyms to help students structure a response - provides tips on how to access the papers

Annotations include: - planning tips - suggested timings - How to structure the response - using the bullet points SAMS2 is the paper I have used for this - the paper that uses the Brighton Rock source.

Author Elissa Nadworny notes, «The latest national numbers suggest that more than 6 million students are «chronically absent,»» and emphasizes comments made by Phyllis Jordan, who authored a recent FutureEd report on the subject, that, «Research tells us that kids shouldn't miss 10 percent or more of the school year, that's the tipping point for kids, but there isn't really research that tells us how many chronically absent kids are too many for a school.»

If I can reveal the answer to a point of confusion or suggest a tip to a writer that's just starting out, maybe I can save him or her valuable time and even possible rejection.

MacDonald says his survey of historical data suggests five - year growth in the private - debt - to - GDP ratio of 17 percent is a «tipping point.»

Calgary - based Pedro Villamar follows Elliott's travel hacking tips via her website, deploying the Amex card she suggested to rack - up thousands of extra points.

As the name suggests, at Shark Point you will see black - tip reef sharks, as well as whale sharks if you're diving in December and May.

If you look around on the internet for tips on how to use your Marriott Rewards balance you'll be hard pushed to find a site that doesn't suggest you should use your points for a Marriott Rewards Travel package... or a «Flight & Hotel Package» as Marriott calls them.

maybe even 2.6 (the upper end of the Padilla claim, and he suggested 475 ppmv CO2 would be the tipping point into danger, I suppose for his mean or median, which should be lower than 2.3).

• Such unprecedented rising temperatures — combined with anticipated rapid industrialization of the developing world — suggests we run a great risk of pushing the climate past a «tipping point» within a lifetime.

I realize Hansen is talking about the head long plunge of human and climate commitment, rather than the transition itself, but are there new results since the TAR to suggest that a tipping point might come earlier than previously expected?

Some prominent individuals have suggested that the disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is part of an overall climate «tipping point.»

-LSB-[Some prominent individuals have suggested that the disintegration of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is part of an overall climate «tipping point.»

Other studies of the Amazon climate tipping point The existence of an Amazonian climate tipping point is confirmed by other model studies, including the above - mentioned Climatic Change publication from 2008 — that suggests a large - scale die - back (70 percent) from about 3 degrees onwards, starting in the South of the basin.

In this Hadley Centre model study Forest cover decreases most rapidly from +1 to +3 degrees Celsius of global average warming, suggesting the Amazon tipping point slides along the temperature scale following an S - shaped curve.

The public's «sustained backlash» against the Conservative Clean Air Act suggests that Canadians have passed the tipping point when it comes to climate change, said Price.

However, if you share my belief that Climate Change poses an existential threat to civilization, and we are right at the verge of tipping points which will render it unstoppable, then I suggest the analogy of waking up in a smoke filled house.

Models suggest there is a tipping point of 30 - 50 % of the Amazon and Congo rainforests, beyond which additional tree loss would significantly alter ecosystems.

Recent modelling suggests that the mutually reinforcing effects of increasing temperatures and aridity, forest fires and deforestation could bring the rainforest far closer than previously thought to «tipping points» at which it becomes ecologically unviable.

In climatology, abrupt changes traced in records of the Earth's past suggest the planet has regularly gone through tipping points, such as the sudden warm - ups that change glacial periods into deglaciations.

Further, the Holocene itself was a degree warmer, and previous interglacial higher still — empiricial evidence would clearly suggest we are far from even a hypothetical tipping point.

This suggests that a so ‐ called tipping point, which would describe the sudden irreversible loss of Arctic summer sea ice during warming conditions, is unlikely to exist.»

Evidence emerging in the past five years or so suggests the presence of many previously unknown tipping points that could trigger dangerous climate change.

Neither of the paper I cited suggested that enough is known to predict a coming tipping point.

«As we approach 2 degrees, many models suggest that tipping points will be reached with respect to summer sea ice and these large masses of glacial ice,» McCarthy told The Yale Forum in an e-mail interview.

The most troubling data suggests that since the 1950s, the human enterprise has led to an explosive acceleration that will reach criticality within the next few decades as different systems reach a point - of - no - return tipping point.

Meanwhile, earth has reached what scientists deem the climate tipping point - and evidence suggests the carbon concentrations in our atmosphere may be permanent.

A rigorous study of potential tipping elements in human socioeconomic systems would also be welcome, especially to address whether and how a rapid societal transition toward sustainability could be triggered, given that some models suggest there exists a tipping point for the transition to a low - carbon - energy system (111).

Chief Hydrologist suggests that we are in danger of triggering a tipping point into the next Ice Age by adding CO2.