Sentences with phrase «year irreversible tipping point»
One by an obscure Professor Emeritus extolls the politicians to act now citing a ten year irreversible tipping point and that it will take a natural disaster on the scale of Hurricane Katrina for them to act.
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According to IGSD this has delayed the onset of irreversible climate change by 12 years, topping off the worst and so far preventing important climate tipping - points.
Even at 2.0 °C, and certainly above it, it is thought that the Earth would cross certain tipping points, beyond which the operation of the Earth System is changed in an irreversible way, at least over timescales of hundreds of thousands of years.
«Stephen Hawking says Donald Trump could turn Earth into planet like Venus with 250C and sulphuric acid rain... We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible... I don't think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our natural planet»
In recent years Hansen has drawn attention to the danger of passing climate tipping points, producing irreversible climate impacts that would yield a different planet from the one on which civilization developed.»
Say we need 20 years to get our sh*t together and reduce emissions, but we only have 10 before the tipping point (where ice melting becomes irreversible, for example), maybe it's worthwhile to pump out massive amounts of harmful junk, paint roofs white, whatever is possible, to avoid that tipping point.