Sentences with phrase «without reaching the tipping point»

However, one can cause significant damage to the environment even without reaching a tipping point, so the threshold at which climate change becomes subjectively dangerous may well be below this.

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The point is that every team might have already reached its tipping point without knowing it, and that it's silly to worry too much about the future of a win - now team.

there has been 15 to 25 times more CO2 than current concentrations; the claim that this time we will reach a tipping point is alarmist, ludicrous, and totally without foundation,» declared atmospheric scientist Robert W. Endlich on July 12, 2009.

And since no one really knows when we'll reach the real tipping points (no matter how you define them), then contrarians would argue that it's best to continue business as usual, without any concern.

If we reach a «tipping point» of feedback between warming and greenhouse emissions, where the Earth lurches into a state without Arctic ice, then the next ice age might be delayed far longer.

Without the US, China, and India making serious cuts soon, we will reach the tipping points that James Hansen and so many others are pointing out, such as those in the «State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World», and nothing will be able to stop catastrophic climate change.