tipping points

Tipping points occur when a small change in one factor, a "driver, " can cause a disproportionately large response in an overall system.

如果一个因素很小的改变（一个“驱动力”）会导致整体系统产生不成比例的巨大改变，这一点就称为临界点。

Can we reach our tipping point before nature reaches one of its tipping points?

我们能否在大自然达到临界点之前达到我们的临界点？

Climate is a profoundly complex, nonlinear system, full of runaway positive feedbacks, hidden thresholds and irrevocable tipping points.

气候是深刻复杂的，非线性系统，尽是失控的正反馈，隐藏的阈值和不可逆转的临界点。

the tipping points, the tipping scale, you might say, is now happening.

你可以说，关键点正在发生。

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issue its last report in 2007, environmental tipping points were a footnote.

2007年，当政府间气候变化专门委员会发表最后一篇报告的时候，预示着出现环境危机的信号还仅仅是一个脚注。

"Most systems change gradually most of the time, and tipping points are the exception, " Scheffer told LiveScience.

大部分系统在大多数时间里是逐渐变化的，而转折点是个例外。

We also face the specter of nonlinear "tipping points" that may cause much more severe changes.

我们还面临另一个幽灵，那就是非线性的“气候引爆点”，这会带来许多严重得多的变化。

We also face the specter of non-linear "tipping points" that may cause much more severe changes.

我们还会面临另一个妖魔-导致更严重变化的非线性的“临界点”。

Shocks, tipping points, and revelations have become basic staples of the world's daily news diet.

冲击、引爆点、被揭露出来的事件已经成为世界每日新闻食谱的基本主菜。

But Earth Hour is a symbolic act, and as WWF's Roberts points out, "history is littered with symbolic acts that became tipping points. "

不过“世界一小时”是一个象征性的活动，就像世界野生动物基金会的罗伯特指出的那样，“历史就是从一个小火花开始点燃整个草原的。”

We are becoming increasingly certain that the world's marine ecosystems are approaching tipping points.

我们越来越确信，世界海洋生态系统正在接近临界点。

There are three striking parallels between the Lehman and London tipping points.

在雷曼倒闭与伦敦骚乱的转折点之间，有三个令人瞩目的相似之处。

The few historical lessons about the effect of such price rises on demand growth point to structural tipping points.

有关此类价格上涨对需求增长影响的少数几个历史教训表明，将出现结构性转折点。

Three potential tipping points were identified.

三个潜在的引爆点已经明确。

We do not mean to suggest that historical tipping points occur only in America, of course.

当然，我们不是说这样的历史转折点只出现在美国。

The economic and political tipping points vary from place to place.

在不同地区，经济和政治临界点各不相同。

Tipping points in markets can never be predicted however.

然而，市场的临界点永远无法预测。

Tipping points in political change are based on psychological thresholds, which are both difficult to predict and measure.

政治变革中的转折点是基于心理阀值的，这既难预测，也难以衡量。

Everyone can get their mouth around tipping points.

每个人都能把引爆点说得朗朗上口。

Now researchers say they can begin to predict these tipping points by searching for universal early warning signs.

如今，研究人员称，他们能够通过探索通用的预警信号来预报这些转折点。