Sentence examples for tipping point from from inspiring English sources

One challenge for the future is to identify the subset of patients for whom genetic test results represent the tipping point from inaction to action.

Gladwell extends the idea of the tipping point from natural to social phenomena, from epidemics to fads, insisting that we can discover the scientific principles that govern both.

This month, the world passed a disastrous tipping point from which there will be no return: the Cape Grim Air Quality Monitoring Station registered a count of 400 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere.

Q: Do we know where the tipping point from carbon sink to source will be?

A broad range of technologies reached a tipping point, from science projects or objects of convenience for the rich, to inventions that will transform humanity.

The report calls for deeper research into the theory that, as the ice caps continue melting at an alarming rate, global warming will reach a "tipping point" from which the Earth's ecology will be "fundamentally disrupted".

He said his goal with Google's new Android platform is to help the market reach that tipping point, and make money from mobile advertising along the way.

Tipping point?

He said that in discussing global warming, he refers not only to tipping points but to more general threats and that he was "not sure where the confusion about tipping points comes from".

While many of his colleagues are (appropriately) quick to point out hype from those aiming to undermine public confidence in climate science, Schmidt has been unafraid also to note that reality on important issues — from tipping points to extreme weather — is not always convenient for greenhouse campaigners.

There is little time left to stabilize and reduce emissions before we risk terrible climate tipping points releasing potent methane from the Arctic and under the warming seas.