Sentences with phrase «tipping points of»

, I am obliged to confess admiration for his delightful pleonasm «runaway tipping points of no return» — I fully intend to plagiarize it.

James E. Hansen worded it a bit more cleverly and eloquently before US Congress in April 2007: «crystallizing scientific data and analysis reveal that the Earth is close to dangerous climate change, to tipping points of the system with the potential for irreversible deleterious effects.»

I attribute the following to Stephan Harrison who posted it on RealClimate: CRTPNR — «catastrophic runaway tipping points of no return».

Crystallizing scientific data and analysis reveal that the Earth is close to dangerous climate change, to tipping points of the system with the potential for irreversible deleterious effects.

Back in 2006, Gavin Schmidt, the NASA scientist and Realclimate.org blogger, critiqued thresholds in a piece with a great title, «Runaway Tipping Points of No Return»:

But what will be hard will be the harsh judgment of history on the President and Secretary of State that allows this pipeline - and the subsequent tipping points of climate change - to come to pass.

His post on «runaway tipping points of no return» is also essential reading.

Gavin Schmidt wrote a valuable Realclimate post back in 2006 noting a variety of issues with «runaway tipping points of no return.»

Early signs of scientific discomfort with some allusions to climate - related tipping points came in a 2006 blog post, «Runaway Tipping Points of No Return,» by Gavin Schmidt of Realclimate.org and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Drawing on history and culture, Barnaby Furnas creates restless, radiant paintings chronicling crescendos of excitement — religious, political, sexual — as they career towards tipping points of deliriously uncertain outcome.

It wasn't until 2017, though, that Bitcoin hit a tipping point of mainstream popularity.

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

«We are, with many other industries, at a tipping point of cybersecurity posture of products and connected services,» said Massimilla.

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.

In June, Mr. Schneider returned to the United States to host a symposium with a roomful of bankers and venture capitalists, a vivid demonstration that private space investment has reached a tipping point of credibility.

«Many retailers are at the tipping point of cutting too much labor,» said Craig Rowley, a senior partner in the retail division of Korn Ferry International, an executive search firm.

Investors are participating in crowdfunding campaigns at staggering rates, supporting projects well into the night pushing fund raising meters higher until they reach a tipping point of success.

I'm convinced of the critical role leadership must play if we are to be successful in scaling up to reach a tipping point of a powerful public witness.

«This could be the tipping point of other university systems moving in this direction, so that's why we are concerned,» InterVarsity president Alec Hill told CT earlier this summer.

One may hope that The Tipping Point is not likely to reach the tipping point of influencing many people in their thinking about the human condition.

«The tipping point of my decision to resign was the realization that countless officers here and throughout the military are guilty of blatantly violating the oaths they swore to defend the Constitution,» wrote Page, 24, in The Huffington Post.

Don't fall into CNN or Fox Network lies, they don't care about God or your eternal salvation, just posting something so Ungodly like this is so Bad, (listen... Get close to Christ the redeemer of mankind) don't get into foolish arguments like this, Hollywood and all media is just the tipping point of the iceberg of something more evil happening, and to believers: get your doctrine straight and don't defend the works of this man (Stephen King) he is not giving glory to God with his live and work, there's many men of God that need your support that really give glory to God.

Experts also have weighed in on the tipping point of the homework load, where it turns from beneficial to joy - sapping drudgery.

We could be well past the tipping point of climate change,» he said.

Many residents are getting to the tipping point of deciding whether staying in North Rockland will be affordable much longer.

Once the social tipping point of a campaign has passed, momentum can decay quickly.

This is because both awakening and light are the stimuli for this crucial tipping point of the day.

Morning awakening is a striking and important biological event — the tipping point of the day.

Carbon dioxide decrease, with a tipping point of 600 ppm, was the primary agent forcing Antarctic glaciation.

Lose just 1.5 % of the water in your body (the human body is usually about 60 % H2O), and you've reached the tipping point of mild dehydration.

With phones, drilling for applications and WAP favorites, passing photos to one another and downloading music is just on the other side of the tipping point of convenience.

And it's now at the tipping point of becoming mainstream practice in schools across the nation.

Smartphone integration in cars — specifically Android Auto and Apple CarPlay — is finally past the tipping point of revolutionizing our in - car experience.

I've also heard the advice to first focus primarily on releasing books and not worry about marketing until we've reached that tipping point of books released.

Could there be a tipping point of credibility?

According to the film, 2005 was a tipping point of sorts, as it was then when adolescents» use of the Internet for reading surpassed the use of traditional books.

Daren Blomquist, Senior Vice President of ATTOM Data Solutions warns that rising interest rates could be the tipping point of affordability:

Ernst Heinen, DVM, Ph.D., chief development officer at Leawood, Kan. - based Aratana Therapeutics, points to the launch of Rimadyl as the possible tipping point of a greater awareness of senior pets» special needs.

Battlefront II, which came out last November, will be remembered forever as the tipping point of a year full of controversy over companies charging extra dollars for features in $ 60 games.

The motive and haste behind this marriage is intended to be political, the world of Eos is on the tipping point of chaos, and these nuptials will mend the terse relationship between Noctis» kingdom of Lucis and the aggressive empire of Niflheim.

The slow and curious nature of the exploration, along with the anonymity of the hand, is a questioning of boundaries and the tipping point of transformation.

Roger Hiorns, whose sculptures have housed bovine brain matter and fungus - like accretions of beguiling, decaying blue crystals, cites BSE as a tipping point of a public crisis of confidence in the ruling elite.

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.

as a sculptor i've struggled with that tipping point of branding being selling out or killing the unpredictabillity of true art.

We're now long past the tipping point of when styles of perception in America expressed lived experience as the cultural properties of people of the Americas and Europe.

Now today, 2018 is critical and the next couple of years as well are far above «truly critical» tipping point of no return — that «battle / argument» has already been lost with the most likely outcome being inaction, denial and ongoing minimisation by those with the only institutional political power to engender change leaving nothing much more and a reliance on a forlorn unrealistic impractical hope» alone.

It looks to me that the denial of the need for enclosure of the world's remaining commons will extend past the tipping point of no return.

However nothing is fixed, and because renewable energy has fallen so much in price, and because of the recent record setting temperatures, the views of the public and politicians are likely near a major tipping point of change.

The reporter must also be skilled in asking the few important questions that define the tipping point of the argument.

The higher the CO2 goes, the more effects you'll see and the greater the chance that you'll hit an unanticipated tipping point of some sort.