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How Service Providers Can Leverage The "Tipping Point" Of The Remote Product Services Market
2013-03-20 10:54:24| dairynetwork Downloads
In sociology, the term “Tipping Point” is described as the “moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire." While a single action can trigger a tipping point, in most cases a tipping point is reached through a culmination of events.
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Warnings of global ecological tipping points may be overstated
2013-03-06 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: There's little evidence that the Earth is nearing a global ecological tipping point, according to a new Trends in Ecology and Evolution paper that is bound to be controversial. The authors argue that despite numerous warnings that the Earth is headed toward an ecological tipping point due to environmental stressors, such as habitat loss or climate change, it's unlikely this will occur anytime soon-at least not on land. The paper comes with a number of caveats, including that a global tipping point...
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Earth Unlikely to Face an Ecological Tipping Point, Study Says
2013-02-28 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A team of international scientists has rejected the idea that the planet could face a sudden and irreversible ecological shift as a result of largely human-driven pressures, suggesting that such global transformations are more likely to occur over a long period of time. While earlier studies have warned that ecological pressures -- including climate change, biodiversity loss, and over-exploitation of resources -- could drive the planet toward a dangerous tipping point, the new paper says the ecosystems...
Arctic thaw may be first in cascade of tipping points
2013-02-27 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: ONE climate domino has fallen, and it may start toppling others. A recent study outlined an interconnected web of climate tipping points, some of which make the next ones more likely. Now, an analysis of data from the last 23 years suggests we passed the first of these tipping points in 2007, when Arctic sea ice flipped into a new, less stable state. That may speed the world towards the next tipping point the thaw of a vast expanse of Siberian permafrost. When it comes to the consequences of climate...
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Nearing a Tipping Point on Melting Permafrost?
2013-02-21 22:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Nearly a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's land surface is covered in permanently frozen soil, or permafrost, which is filled with carbon-rich plant debris -- enough to double the amount of heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere if the permafrost all melted and the organic matter decomposed. According to a paper published Thursday in Science, that melting could come sooner, and be more widespread, than experts previously believed. If global average temperature were to rise another 2.5°F (1.5°C),...
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