Sentences with phrase «about human influences»

The majority was concerned about human influences on climate, but were uncertain which would prove larger: CO2 warming or cooling from aerosols.

Since Marcott et al ends in 1950 and the IPCC has already concluded the temperature increases pre 1950 are due to natural causes, Macrott et al can not be showing us anything about the human influences on temprature.

Newly published research in «PNAS» identifies what authors call a «vertical human fingerprint» in satellite - based estimates of atmospheric temperature changes, adding still more to confidence levels about human influences in warming.

Realclimate, which was launched largely defensively in 2004 (you can read an explanatory note in, you guessed it, the East Anglia e-mails) has matured into a valuable resource for anyone trying to gauge what science has, and has not, revealed about a human influence on the climate system.

When I'm forced to compress it down to just those two words I'm talking about the human influence on the climate system through the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The abstract of his paper says: «Given that global warming is unequivocal, the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warming...» — nothing about human influence.

There's been some confusion about the human influence on the drought because two studies published this year didn't find a connection to the lack of rainfall.

In talking about human influence, Rep. Laudermilk inserted the phrase if any.

Not exact matches

The idea, which was primarily based on the research of psychologists John Mayer and Peter Salovey, quickly took off — and went on to greatly influence the way we think about emotions and human behavior.

The idea — that an ability to understand and manage emotions greatly increases our chances of success — quickly took off, and it went on to greatly influence the way people think about emotions and human behavior.

Meicun Weng, the founder of Chinese community and news site Boxun (which regularly reports on Chinese human - rights abuses and is blocked in China), drives home the point about how the Chinese government wields influence with its economic power.

Canadians should not be naive about China's human rights record, nor should they be overly optimistic about their own influence.

Cartesians — taking the theologically grounded refusal to believe in spirits or worry about the influence of final causes to some sort of plausible limit — believed that «animals» were insentient, and that only humans had goals or thoughts or feelings.

With the changing demographics in America, including the racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, immigration, and biblical justice challenges of our day, it is more important than ever for people of color to have safe places to live authentically, serve humbly, and use their influence and experiences to shape our theology (what we know and believe about God) and our praxis (the ethics of our human behavior or what we actually do).

One may hope that The Tipping Point is not likely to reach the tipping point of influencing many people in their thinking about the human condition.

That's what the Greeks and later Michelangelo and the sculptors he most deeply influenced were about: elevating the human figure above the realm of optical phenomena and thereby endowing it with a more visceral presence, a deeper aesthetic resonance, and a greater emotional significance.

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

Now, could it possibly be that the reason the answer is out of reach is because the bible was written by numerous, imperfect human beings, under the influence of their own religious biases, and all those writings have been complied, hundreds of years later, by men of equal imperfectness and religious biases, so as to render any logical discussion about what the hell was their intention in writing what the wrote, completely implausible?

But there is nothing egalitarian about a moral vision that flows from understanding human dignity in terms of transcendence - seeking projects; and libertarians, under the brutalizing influence of Ayn Rand, seem to have become increasingly honest about the inegalitarian consequences of their agenda.

1 There is the New England short story («The Great Stone Face») about the influence of a mountain in the shaping of a human face.

Although few Protestants would still claim that the United States is an «almost Christianized» nation, the Victorian way of thinking about the world, God, and human nature still influences theological discourse.

God remains powerful, but power — the capacity to influence reality or bring about significant effects — is redefined through the divine decision to remain defenseless in the face of our own human use of power in order to oppress:

In the language of many of those influenced by Barth, statements about what is real independently of human experience and thought are «metaphysical,» and these theologians hold that metaphysics is clearly disallowed by Barth as by contemporary philosophy in general.

We are learning about women in history, both individual women whose contributions have been ignored or forgotten, and the masses of women in all cultures and periods of history who have had tremendous influence on the evolution of human society, from the invention of agriculture to the «keeping of the faith.»

Although Grant initially expressed concern about the homogenizing influences of liberalism and capitalism on his country's distinctive traditions, in his last decades he became increasingly worried about the easy acceptance of euthanasia and abortion in western societies and the inevitable cheapening of human life that would follow in its wake.

I agree that there are orders set up in the Bible about spiritual gifts and callings, what I was saying is that every human is called into what some call a «sphere of influence» where God needs them to reach the lost.

Thus, the difficulty has been that in much philosophical thought, with its influence upon other ways of thinking and also upon our ways of acting as humans, there has been a failure to grasp adequately the peril of talk about individuals and equally about substance.

All along the way, attitudes about children and parenting practices were largely influenced by strict religious dogma or experts in the fields of psychology and human development.

BFUSA believes: (1) human milk fed through direct breastfeeding is the optimal way for human infants to be nurtured and nourished; (2) the precious first days should be protected as a time of bonding and support not influenced by commercial interests; and (3) every mother should be informed about the benefits of breastfeeding and respected to make her own choice.

What we love most about Baltic amber is that it offers a natural, drug - free alternative to the relief of teething pain in children and a variety of positive influence on the human body for adults.

Indeed, the limited assumptions Locke made about human attributes gave his work significant longevity and influence politically.

«The contribution of sea surface temperatures was about twice that of human influence for Oregon and Washington.»

What's more, work with animals has led to the idea that personality traits evolve to help individuals survive in a wider variety of ecological niches, and this is influencing the way psychologists think about human personality.

Other scientists, led by Thomas Knutson, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, looked at 2012's hot spring temperatures over the eastern United States and also found that human influences contributed about 35 percent to late spring heat that year.

Rep. Ralph Hall, however, prevaricated about the extent of humans» influence — citing great debate and uncertainty among experts.

Emerging research on how parasites affect host behavior fuels speculation about their influence on human history

Instead of the neat green and yellow strips that we learned about in geography class, denoting jungle, desert and so on, the planet is now divided into a complex mosaic of different human - influenced ecosystems.

He said scientists need about a century's worth of good data to start making sophisticated predictions about the influence of human - caused climate change on hurricane frequency.

For example, party and ideology are among several factors that influence public views about human evolution.

Since about 2.5 billion years ago, the mantle has been cooling — a phenomenon that doesn't influence the climate on the surface of the Earth and has nothing to do with the issue of short - term human - made climate change.

A study of penguin species most often depicted in coffee table books raises questions about how human preferences for attractive animals may influence conservation efforts.

The researchers say they'd now like to learn more about how these genes influenced humans» ability to survive and what implications they might have for disease.

Beyond what the study says about their living habits, it demonstrates just how much early humans influenced life around them, Zeder adds.

Research has shown the significance of social relationships in influencing adult human behavior and health; however, little is known about how children's perception of their social networks correlates with stress and how it may influence development.

The 33 - year - old Finnish evolutionary biologist, aided by genealogists, has scoured centuries - old tomes (and decades - old microfiche) for birth, marriage and death records — and clues about the influence of evolution on human reproduction.

All told, about 20 % of the distribution of domesticated species across the Amazon seemed to be driven by human influences, while 30 % was likely due to environmental factors such as soil composition.

In 2005, Rep. Joe Barton, R - Texas, called Mann before Congress to testify about his now ubiquitous «hockey - stick» graph, showing temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past millennia, with an abrupt spike upward at the end showing human influence on the climate.

The researchers are testing bacterial signatures of human cadavers over time to learn more about the process of human decomposition and how it is influenced by weather, seasons, animal scavenging and insect infestations.

Studying the severe drought in São Paulo, the largest city in South America with a population of about 20 million, a team led by Friederike Otto found that human - induced climate change was not a major influence.

You can't simply take one curve, look at it «by eye», and start to make claims about the validity of the idea that human influence on climate is significant