Everyone, he said, reaches a threshold beyond which working with others is irritating, even unendurable.
It was a political judgement, informed by science, about the threshold beyond which climate insecurity is likely to become unmanageable.
Every insulator has a threshold beyond which the electrons are ripped off its component atoms and it becomes a conductor.
Scientists have warned that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we will pass the threshold beyond which global warming becomes catastrophic and irreversible.
On Friday, ValueAct announced it held a 5.5% stake in Rolls-Royce after crossing the 5% threshold beyond which investors in public companies must reveal their holdings.
This year, even with prices stabilising, the food price index remains at 210 – which some experts believe is the threshold beyond which civil unrest becomes probable.
The central estimate is that warming is likely to exceed 2C, the threshold beyond which scientists think global warming will start to wreak serious changes to the planet.
The central estimate is that warming is likely to exceed 2C, the threshold beyond which scientists think climate change will start to cause catastrophic and potentially irreversible changes, by the end of this century.
It is just over a year since Switzerland surprised many when it announced, and strictly implemented, a threshold beyond which its currency would not be allowed to appreciate against the euro.
The study asserted that the accuracy of the computer's analysis would provide a threshold beyond which human analysts could increase accuracy to almost 100percentt by "measuring the finer features by hand".
Under a proposal put forward by experts last year, a site losing more than 10% of its biodiversity is considered to have passed a precautionary threshold, beyond which the ecosystem's ability to function could be compromised.
