But the true tipping point — the cancellation of regular-season games — will not occur for another month.
True, tipping Return of the King as best film hardly counts as a kamikaze gamble bearing in mind that it's the heaviest favourite in Oscar history.
"The stars are aligning to make 2010 the launch year of 3-D," said John Taylor, a vice president for LG Electronics USA. "It's still just in its infancy, but when there is a sufficient amount of content available and lots of people are working on this there will be a true tipping point for consumers".
Fortunately, scientists like Mr. Scheffer and Mr. Lenton are trying to work out the details of how closely nature hews to these mathematics, what a true tipping point would look like and what we might do if and when we face one.
But in general since the conventions, Mr. Obama's bounce has been a bit more apparent in polls of noncompetitive states — or states that are on the fringe of being competitive — than in the true "tipping point states" that are most likely to determine the election.
With evidence coming from satellites, airplanes, and models, it remains difficult to say with certainty whether the melting at Thwaites represents a true tipping point for the planet or how fast it might happen.
Under reasonable real-world parameter combinations, edge effects can have a significant impact on deforestation rates, supporting the hypothesis that the true tipping point in a forest to pasture regime shift occurs earlier (i.e., ∼50% forest loss) than analysis of a loss in connectivity would suggest (i.e., ∼60% forest loss).
As we enter the New Year, join me as we continue to push for a true tipping point on pediatric AIDS -- and to end AIDS in children, once and for all.
As, for me, a true tipping point in the battle against Global Warming will be when I don't feel like Scrooge and we start pulling the plugs on non-LED lights.
