Sentences with phrase «tipping points or»

simon abingdon December 16, 2012 at 9:50 am asked: «Would that mean that we can rule out the idea of catastrophic tipping points or (for example) place a limit on the global temperature increase resulting from runaway GHG emissions?

Would that mean that we can rule out the idea of catastrophic tipping points or (for example) place a limit on the global temperature increase resulting from runaway GHG emissions?

It is my analysis that we have passed the carrying capacity of the Earth, that in several matters we have crossed different ecosystem tipping points or are near doing so.

Of course Ferdinand is right not to project catastrophism onto anthropogenic CO2 levels for as you likely know there is a inverse logarithmic relationship between changes in temperature and CO2 levels such that without the assumed positive feedback from water vapour there is no chance of runaway global warming, tipping points or whatever.

Some veteran climate scientists, while eager for cuts in heat - trapping emissions, warn that descriptions of climatic tipping points or thresholds could backfire in the absence of evidence, leading to less public support for action.

Why districts and schools should develop specific tipping points or early warning indicators.

I would also point out that there is a tipping point or the «straw - that - broke - the - camel's back.»

There remains a good deal of uncertainty, and there's always the possibility that we hit some type of tipping point or threshold effect.

Don't get me wrong, I don't buy into the AGW alarmist story that we are anywhere near a tipping point or even that human CO2 and land use activities are responsible for most of the warming we have experienced in the past 150 years.

That is Pekka's tipping point or a stochastic resonance.

The present paper presents a mathematical analysis of a tipping point or runaway feedback that can arise when the heat from microbial respiration is generated more rapidly than it can escape from the soil to the atmosphere.

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.

Not exact matches

The visible failure of the war on drugs, combined with a generational tipping point in attitudes, has poll after poll showing a majority of adults favouring the legalization or at least decriminalization of recreational cannabis use.

At one point in history the idea was to create tips and tricks and tools and technology to help us get our to - do list done faster so we'd have margin or space left over.

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

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Tipping the top or bottom of a market is never smart, especially at a time of volatile trading; but a series of recent events point to confidence growing in the start of a recovery in the Western Australian economy.

There are many so - called «overnight successes» that have actually been around for decades before finally reaching the tipping point and having mass appeal or nationwide / worldwide recognition.

We felt that we were past the tipping point in terms of video technology and comfort with it — most applicants would have used Skype or FaceTime.»

The formula has become familiar: take a catchy, easy - to - grasp concept — «the tipping point,» or «the 10,000 - hour rule» — and then use a series of expertly plucked and beautifully told anecdotes to advance that thesis.

Or it could be a tipping point signaling the end of Nike's basketball dominance.

Grandma Mira's death was a tipping point event that convinced me I needed to pursue the opportunity in front of me or I would regret it on my own deathbed.

For example, create a series of tips, articles and how - to points related to your product or industry to inform customers.

And this could be a tipping point moment where we the people tell our politicians and our leaders what we want to happen to our economy, rather than having to listen to their bullshit about shall we have a stimulus or shall we not, or shall we do this or shall we not.

«We seem to be at a tipping point with [privacy] issues, with the great acceptance that the price of digital communications is some intrusion on privacy being replaced by a more cynical, or at least aware, attitude toward what is actually happening.

«This is five or six years in the making, and we are now seeing the tipping point.»

Is the current obsession with artificial intelligence in all things financial just hype, or is the technology truly at a tipping point?

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I feel like we are at a tipping point in history where atheists will eventually overtake people of faith, and then set out to either intellectually or maybe even physically eradicate them.

When a tipping point has been reached among those who can embrace the new, deeper vision, the Churches will embrace the deeper vision or die.

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The U.S. system of governance is at a tipping point where we have to decide (and are about to) whether we believe in the free exercise of enterprise and good will of the people or whether we will subjegate our freedom for the care of a bureaucracy.

So what was the tipping point when people discovered and then agreed, that the world wasn't flat or the earth and sun weren't the center of the Universe?

Even on the most basic, day - to - day level, we were created with personal tipping points — an awareness that we're inching closer to becoming burned out at work, or hurt one too many times by a friend or family member.

This will be some sort of humanitarian crisis or a tipping point among world governments.

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.

There is NO «tipping point» between «greed» and «ambition», the first term universally regarded as «bad» and the second «good» in all but communist or socialist societies.

But at some point there is a tipping point when he takes it too far or his followers become disillusioned or hostile.

The first video here includes a bonus tip on what to do when your buttercream «breaks» or curdles into that horrific mess and most people throw it out in disgust at that point, but wait!

Also: find out what happened — was this a simple «save» performed by an ultra-competent server or was it the result of the unscientifically arrived - at, unpredictable tipping point that enough good marketing moments put together can create?

At this point, spoon it into a pasty bag fitted with a round tip or a plastic bag with a small hole cut into one corner.

Plant two feet or upwards in height, more erect and less branched than other varieties, and much stained with purple at the intersection of the branches and at the insertion of the leaf - stems; leaves of medium size, or small, long, and sharply pointed; leaf - stems long, deep - green; flowers white, tipped with purple, about three - fourths of an inch in diameter; flower - stems long, purple.

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Once you've gone all the way around, switch to a knife with a pointed tip (either a slicer or a chef's knife).

It's somewhat triangular which gives it three points or tips, thus tri tip:

Tip: If at any point the dough starts to stick (it tends to get warm from the heat of your hands) lightly oil or flour your fingertips, take a deep breath, and try working with it again.

I honestly can't tell if this is actually a tipping point, or if it's just one we've all invented because we're tired of talking about this.

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Olivier Giroud is another point in fact, he misses far more than he scores and while I am impressed with his hold up play he is NOT fast enough or sharp enough to deliver the good that a sole striker or main tip of the spear should do.