Sentences with phrase «tipping points increases»

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.

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Given growing doctor shortages and increasing pressure for cost control, more medical care will be pushed downstream to nurse practitioners, mini-practices inside retailers» locations, and in mobile - van and in - home practices and via online, where diagnosis and issuance of prescriptions is an evolving business very near the tipping point of a boom.

It's more likely, in my view, that investors have simply been getting closer to their «tipping point,» and that small further increases from here may have disproportionately large effects.

Inflation compensation rose by 30 basis points to 1.87 percent while the real return, taken from the rate on the 10 - Year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (10 - Year TIPS), increased by 19 basis points to 0.46 percent.

Each of the tips is designed to increase the good will between partners — to prepare the soil for the really sticky points.

Real - world tip: Since there are no colors on these boards, there is very little point in having more than one writing tool out at a time; it only increases the odds of losing one.

For those families with multiple school aged children, what sounds like a small price increase can serve as a tipping point, driving them out of the school meal programs at the very moment that these programs are working to meet proposed standards for more whole grains, fresh produce and healthier entrees.

If there's anything history has taught us about a «healthy» British property market it's that house prices will increase quicker than average earnings, making this tipping point inevitable.

The authors conclude that there is a direct connection between neurogenesis and addiction, one that does not necessarily involve stress, and it could be the tipping point, increasing the vulnerability to addiction in one person rather than another.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

These changes, the report notes, will place increasing stress on water, health, energy and transportation systems and have, in several instances, already crossed tipping points to irreversible change.

He noted that the average global temperature compared with the early 1900s is now expected to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius within the next 15 to 35 years, which he called «a tipping point» toward aggressive climate change.

They may have crossed a tipping point due to increasing ocean acidification, raising the alarm that climate change impacts in the ocean are continuing to happen at a much quicker pace than scientists previously suspected.

A vaccine should tip the balance of this contest in favor of the immune system by increasing the numbers of CD4 + and CD8 + cells that are poised to swing into action if HIV gains entry to the body at some point in the future.

The Barbell Physio showed 5 Ways to Increase Strength Off The Floor some good tips and appropriate exercise selection for those whose sticking point in the deadlift is right off the floor.

Possibly with the phenomenal growth of the internet and the aforementioned increase in cougar dating sites available to mature women in the UK, of late there seems to have been a «tipping point» in opinions about older women opting for cougar dating — and the general consensus now seems to have become: «If the lady and her beau are happy, so what; it's not a big issue.»

Received wisdom is that provided the books you've self - published are any good, and that they are in the same genre, you'll see a significant increase in sales when you publish your third, fifth and seventh book, and so on — although yesterday someone told me that the fourteenth is the biggest tipping point (no idea why!)

How long did it take for you to gain blog readers and can you pin point any certain event that created a tipping point when readership increased noticeably?

Question is, did the additional 1.75 percent of increases serve to tip the housing market into decline, or was the collapse inevitable with or without the last seven quarter - point raises?

While Democrats lose support as income increases, there seems to be a tipping point where the ultra-wealthy begin leaning Democratic.

Is the increased bankcard delinquency rate a sign of a tipping point in the recovery in consumer credit that we have observed over the past 7 years?

Many shelters are suffering from decline in staff, decline in funding, and increased numbers of animals in their care — I think maybe we are hitting the tipping point.

Acupuncture can make pets with cancer more comfortable by stimulating points in the body that help with pain relief, or increase energy, the immune system and appetite, said Dr. Levy, who sat beside Harpo on a rug and inserted a red tipped needle into the top of the terrier's head.

Weaker targets for 2020 increase the risk of crossing tipping points and make the task of meeting 2050 targets more difficult.

At current rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 of about 3ppm / year, that would only be pushing the supposed tipping point out about 8 years.

There are other factors (changes in the natural sources of emissions in a warmed environment, changes in the function of traditional carbon sinks in a warmed environment, tipping points like increase forest fire activity in a warmed environment, etc.) that also play a significant role in the truly important number, which is accumulation of CO2 / e in the atmosphere and ocean acidification.

As Milankovic warming in the norther hemisphere is carried into the shallow return current, the Antarctic Ice margin retreats; a tipping point is reached where the Drake Passage flow restarts or increases above a threshold.

After a few years of this, it began to look very much like some sort of tipping point had been reached, in which the atmosphere began to respond rather dramatically to the increased carbon levels.

An increasing number of top scientists now believe we have passed the tipping point..

Alistair B McDonald: It seems that during last year's El Nino a tipping point was passed where the Antarctic sea ice extent, instead of slowly increasing year by year, changed to a mode where it is suddenly began to decrease.

To make sure I've understood your 2006 article correctly, Dr. Hansen's 10 years to a tipping point is an educated (very educated) estimate of how long we have to stop increasing CO2 ppm (to prevent it going over the dangerous 400ppm level) as opposed to the result of calculations from a computer model.

Charts from way back showed us the scary tipping points where temperature increases would consume us.

If an increase to, say 4X CO2 were enough to cause an inexorable transition from a Holocene climate to the Cretaceous type, I think any reasonable person would call that a tipping point.

On the one hand, continued melting from below — or increased melting from above (this isn't imminent, but will happen at some point in the next century or two)-- will eventually lead to a tipping point in time where rapid retreat begins, regardless of what ocean or air temperatures do from that point on.

Do you think that the fact that Malcolm Gladwell wrote a recent best - seller named» The Tipping Point» might account for the increased usage of the phrase?

The risk of transgressing critical thresholds («tipping points») increases strongly with ongoing climate change.

As the planet warms, it is easy to imagine an increasing number of «tipping points» being passed, each related to some different sub-system of the climate or biosphere.

via:: BBC News and:: Reuters Climate Change 60 % More Greenhouse Gases Trapped in Permafrost Than Previously Thought Melting Arctic Ice Increases Permafrost Thaw Farther Inland Than Previously Thought Arctic Climate Tipping Point Happening Now!

Once the Arctic temperatures do increase, then the melting ice = increased albedo and melting permafrost = release of methane theories of tipping points is played.

Imagine the permanence of such droughts, and increasing evidence of tipping points on the horizon, and a world in which ever more scientists take it upon themselves to deliver desperate warnings.

3 — Some consideration of low probability, large effect events, whether this be Hansen's «tipping points» where there is rapid run - away warming, or of «Day After Tomorrow» style cooling because of slowing of the North Atlantic Conveyor (would shelve the plans to invade Canada, but would necessitate increased protection of your northern border to protect from an influx of Quebecois; — RRB --RRB-.

The past record shows that tipping points have occurred (at least regionally) during rapid T increases and we can assume that if similar things happened today, they would be highly disruptive to human and biological systems.

Are you saying that there is a climate tipping point and global climate diruption, or are you saying that CO2 increases, all thing being equal, will warm things?

The risk of crossing thresholds in tipping points in the Earth system (e.g. West Antarctic ice sheet disintegration and Amazon dieback) increase

While the Earth seems to be managing the steady increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide relatively well so far (although the effects of this increase may not be felt for many decades to come), there are concerns that passing the 400 parts per million atmospheric carbon dioxide threshold will bring the Earth's atmosphere closer to a tipping point at which global warming accelerates rapidly with dire consequences for mankind and other creatures on Earth.

Even before this Hansen and his colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute argued that due to positive feedbacks and climatic tipping points global average temperature increases had to be kept to less than 1 °C below 2000 levels.

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.

The 2014 paper's author, Isabel Galiana, herself said that the «the paper does not explicitly undertake a benefit / cost analysis of keeping climate change to two degrees,» and also noted that if certain «tipping points» were passed, then climate - change induced damage could also increase.

Will an increase from 1.9 degrees to 2.1 degrees trigger a «tipping point»?

In contrast to the sophisticated climate model predictions of runaway («tipping point») global warming, in reality, real - world global warming, as measured by satellites, has disappeared for over 16 years despite the gargantuan increases in CO2 emissions... (Ramez Naam denies this)