Sentences with phrase «whether human activities»

Recent scientific studies increasingly question whether human activities have contributed to observed shifts in natural circulation patterns.

«Such efforts should be recognized as the act of desperate people who have simply lost the argument over whether human activities are primarily driving climate change and who can not face up to the truth.»

«Most Americans don't realize that the scientific community has grave doubts about whether human activities cause «global warming» and what the proper course of action should be.

So, the concern is not with the fact that we have a greenhouse effect, but whether human activities are leading to an enhancement of the greenhouse effect by the emission of greenhouse gases through fossil fuel combustion and deforestation.

In time — it would take more than a few years» observations, obviously — such an experiment would settle once and for all the question whether human activities are making a significant contribution to climate variations on Earth.

Instead, the company helped generate doubt among the public and policymakers as to whether human activities were causing global warming.

However, the debate over whether human activities are responsible for all, some, or none of the recent climate change remains very much alive and well.

Whether human activities such as burning fossil fuels is contributing to the greenhouse effect is where much of the debate lies.

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

The president of Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, recently claimed he is not smart enough to know whether human activity — i.e. the fossil fuel industry — causes climate change.

For example, the Church does not know whether the planet is getting warmer, whether such change would be good or bad, or whether human activity is the cause; nor does she know whether minimum - wage laws do more good to the poor by increasing the income of those who work, or more harm to the poor by throwing those with marginal skills out of work.

However, it may not always be obvious whether human activity or a forest's natural dynamics are at play in, for example, the dieback of a stand or the outbreak of an insect herbivore.

However, it is not clear whether this is a new phenomenon, or even whether human activity is to blame.

And it has shown us five previous worldwide extinction events that occurred before the human era, enabling us to ask whether human activity is now causing a sixth global die - off.

Bennett: When you say an open mind, you mean you're just not sure whether human activity causes climate change?

Indeed, members of the public who score the highest on a climate - science literacy test are the most politically polarized on whether human activity is causing global temperatures to rise.

Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it.

Journalist Keith Kloor has taken a broader look in Issues at this emerging controversy in conservation circles about whether human activity is an integral lpart of nature or a force from which nature must be protected.

On the issue of whether human activity is leading to warming of the atmosphere he wrote in The Australian on November 5 last year:

Public views have shifted starkly over the past year on the long - running controversy over whether global warming is real, and whether human activity contributes to it.

Trump's pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, is a prominent denier of climate science, writing in the National Review in May that «the debate is far from settled» over whether human activity has contributed to the warming of the earth.

A recent survey among some 500 international climate researchers found that «a quarter of respondents still question whether human activity is responsible for the most recent climatic changes».

Whether human activity is causing the majority of recent warming is not a political question, it is a scientific question.

About two - thirds of the authors of those studies refrained from stating in their abstracts whether human activity was responsible for climate change.

It begs the question of whether human activity is natural or not.

Not exact matches

He originated the «human to human» business concept — the belief that all commercial activity, whether its business to business or business to consumer, is fundamentally human to human.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

Such an awareness does not deny a telos to the history of life, but it does remove its fulfillment from the realm of mere human activity, whether economic, political, or otherwise.

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But goals are also needed defining the next step which needs to be taken in any given area of human activity, whether it be in the local schools, in dealing with poverty, in fighting pollution, in combating racial discrimination, in ending the war in Vietnam, and so on.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

[The earlier passage is here inserted:] «The essential principle is this: That human psycho - physical activity must exceed a certain intensity for any waking consciousness at all to occur, and that during the waking state any particular specification of the said activity (whether spontaneous or due to stimulation), which is capable of occasioning a particular specification of consciousness, must exceed in its turn a certain further degree of intensity for the consciousness actually to arise...

It is whether such accounts, revisable as they are, require changes in traditional theological interpretations of human «nature» and activity.

Yet, because humans are social creatures, we shall continue to value opportunities for fellowship and interpersonal activities, whether in sport, culture or spirituality.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

The information is being sought as Schneiderman's office investigates whether the company played down the impact of human activity in climate change.

«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

«We need studies that track restoration activities and measure not only whether stressors are reduced, but also whether human benefits are realized.»

Dust found in the ice gives a record of what was in the air thousands of years ago, whether from volcanic eruptions or human activity, and the isotopic composition of the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in the snow give a record of the temperature of the earth at the time.

They found a strong positive relationship between trust in specific groups and whether they agreed that human activity is causing climate change.

These include the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and foods grown with pesticides, the use of animals in research, whether climate change is mostly due to human activity, and whether humans have evolved over time.

Whether peering into deep space or checking on human activity, spacecraft and satellites from days gone by are still on the job

Whether the species is a pronghorn, a 200 - pound jaguar or a pygmy owl, the fortifications and human activity can not help but impede animals» movements and reproductive behavior.

In studies with human fibroblasts that make up connective tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of cells grown in the lab.

Next up: the team plans to study whether human patients with early stage Alzheimer's or a mild cognitive impairment experience this same nonconvulsive seizure activity.

And achieving any stabilization target — whether 2 degrees C of warming or 450 ppm or 1,000 gigatons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activity — will require at least an 80 percent cut in emissions from peak levels by the end of this century and, ultimately, zero emissions over the long term.

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

The first, Schatz's amendment, cites scientific bodies like the National Research Council and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in asking whether it's the «sense of Congress» that «climate change is real» and that «human activity significantly contributes to climate change.»

Considering that human activity has indirectly brought together species through planetary warming and increased fossil fuel emissions, the question on the minds of many biologists like Arnold is whether humans should play a role in preventing hybridization like this.

37 - percentage point gap over whether climate change is mostly caused by human activity — 87 % of AAAS scientists say it is, while 50 % of the public does.