Sentences with phrase «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.

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

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.

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

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»:

Kerry will make «the compelling and undeniable scientific case of this growing challenge that is pushing the planet towards a tipping point of no return», the State Department official said, asking not to be named.

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

Related to the runaway tipping point of no return is the magic number of 2 degrees.

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

I sincerely hope that the full phrase «runaway tipping point of no return» will never be used again.

There's been talk of solutions — all the more needed if we are headed toward a runaway tipping point of no return — including geo - engineering.

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Greenland's coastal glaciers and ice caps have passed a pivotal tipping point — a new study concludes that they've melted so much that they're now past the point of no return, and it's unlikely in current conditions that they'll be able to regrow the ice they've lost.

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.

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However, there seems to be a tipping point when six of the nine building blocks are in place, with diminishing returns after that.

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Climate facts to warm to Christopher Pearson March 22, 2008 TheAustralianNews.com «CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return...»

Are «tipping points» the same as the «points of no return» oft used in the media?

Talk of a tipping point, a point - of - no - return, etc. is only too likely to encourage this fallacy.

But given your description of tipping points and points of no return, a conservative approach seems to be in order.

«Urgent action is required before the world reaches a point of no - return because it has passed a tipping point.

According to Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, UK, speaking at the Copenhagen session on tipping points, that makes the process pretty much irreversible once it's started in earnest - you'd need a very substantial cooling for the ice sheet to return.

Tipping Points: Things gradually reach the point of no return.

When the clock starts ticking, we could be beyond our climate's tipping point, the point of no return.

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.

Kopp et al. (2016b) suggest that a «tipping point» implies immediate abrupt change, whereas some mechanisms are better described as «critical thresholds,» points of no return whose consequences could take centuries to develop.BACK

Every time there is a «hottest» day, a «warmest - than - ever» month, or an extended period of quickly rising global temps, there are many who instantly claim that the world has reached a runaway climate change condition, or a global warming tipping point, or a soon to be doomsday, a no - return cascade turning Earth into the next Venus.

When the scientific community states that we are already locked into climate change in the near future because of the pollution we have already emitted, it is a logical conclusion to the idea of a «point of no return» or «tipping point».

Where there's life, there's hope, and we should never give up efforts to reduce our GHGs, regardless of whatever tipping point or point of no return we reach, or how far away or close those tipping points are, until we reach our own personal tipping point of death.