In an ideal SRM geoengineering scenario, even
as humans warm the Earth by releasing increasing amounts of heat - trapping gases, that warmth would be counterbalanced, since more heat - causing radiation would also be reflected.
Not exact matches
«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global
warming,
human contact, coastal development»
as other significant threats to coral.
Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth:
Human - caused global
warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating
as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.
Trump told the New York Times in an interview that he thinks there is «some connectivity» between
human activity and global
warming, despite previously describing climate change
as a hoax.
As climate change and global
warming open up the Arctic to greater
human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.
Others include terrorism, global
warming and changing
human physiology,
as well
as other technologies, such
as robots.
Many careful observers believe that
human economic activity is already at an unsustainable level in many parts of the world and even globally,
as indicated by global
warming.
English actor Henry Ian Cusick is just right
as the Christ — understated, enigmatic, appealing, somewhat distant, but completely
human — a firebrand and rabble - rouser when provoked, self - assertive to the point of arrogance,
warm and genuine.
It is here that
human emotion, repressed at some points by the austerity of the doctrine of God
as developed in theology, has its full outlet — a
warm human emotion which the peasant can share with the mystic.
The institute is undoubtedly an ego trip for Schuller, and so is many a classroom lecture and magazine article and editorial column for you and me, but he came through time and again during the conference
as a decent,
warm, ordinary and enthusiastic
human being.
``... a number of scientific studies indicate that most global
warming... is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases released mainly
as a result of
human activity... these gases do not allow the warmth of the sun's rays reflected by the earth to be dispersed in space.
Let us further imagine that,
as the sensibility or response to mysticism of the
human race increases with planetization, the awareness of Omega becomes so widespread
as to
warm the earth psychically while physically J it is growing cold.
Unconditional positive regard means
warm,
human regard for the individual
as a person of unconditional worth.
... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global
warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly
as a result of
human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.
And again: The IPCC claimed that there was an increase in extreme weather conditions
as a result of
human - induced global
warming.
The therapist is seen
as a
warm human being whose task is to accept and affirm the wills of persons until they can develop strength in exercising their own wills.
In the
warmer weather I love swimming, boating, and hiking with animals,
as long
as the animals are the 3
human creatures discussed above.
Just
as we are realizing that we can not mess with «mother - nature» without experiencing repercussions like global
warming, we are beginning to realize that we can not tamper with nature's plan for
human development and not create chaos.
The world's experts have stated that the global
warming is largely due to
human activity — primarily
as the result of reliance on fossil fuels.
Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or
human activities such
as coal burning — are slowing down global
warming.
«Our results indicate that a wide range of POPs have been remobilized into the Arctic atmosphere over the past two decades
as a result of climate change, confirming that Arctic
warming could undermine global efforts to reduce environmental and
human exposure to these toxic chemicals,» write the scientists, whose analysis was published yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Apparently embarrassed by his vote, Kerry later explained that «the prospect of
human - induced global
warming as an accepted thesis with adverse consequences for all is here, and it is real.»
Human health challenges
as a result of global
warming range from injuries after more intense storms to toxic algal blooms
As a result, more of
human emissions would remain in the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect that contributes to global
warming and alters Earth's climate.
As Roger Short of the University of Melbourne writes in the introduction, «The inexorable increase in
human numbers is exhausting conventional energy supplies, accelerating environmental pollution and global
warming, and providing an increasing number of failed states where civil unrest prevails,» among other faults.
But Taylor of the Heartland Institute said it should not come
as a surprise that the subject of
human induced global
warming would become more contested
as it moved out of the realm of pure science into the realm of policy.
For their part, though, global
warming skeptics such
as atmospheric physicist Fred Singer maintain that cold weather snaps are responsible for more
human deaths than
warm temperatures and heat waves.
But some researchers have argued that the transition from the frigid climatic period known
as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-- about 20,000 to 25,000 years ago — to the current
warm Holocene Epoch brought habitat changes that killed off the mammoths with little or no help from
humans.
The northern populations began to recover
as the cold, dry, grassy steppes that fed them in their heyday returned, but mammoths in
warmer central and southern Siberia died off when forests and peatland — and
humans — moved in.
The hurricane is spinning over waters that have
warmed in the last century
as a result of
human activity.
There's also a feast of
human skin available,
as people in
warmer climes often wear tank tops, flip - flops, and shorts.
In the past few years, climate scientists finally agreed that the world is indeed
warming,
humans are behind it, and natural processes are unlikely to rein it in - just
as they had suspected.
Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the
human role in global
warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment
as well
as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.
He said this can be attributed to the fact that
warm, tropical water is just
as good a place for sharks
as it is for
humans.
As a result, large swaths of sub-Saharan Africa would fall into drought, the study says, while southeast Africa became
warmer, wetter and more humid, transforming into prime real estate for early
human groups.
Interestingly, some scientists argue that without the cooling effect of major volcanic eruptions such
as El Chichn and Mount Pinatubo, global
warming effects caused by
human activities would have been far more substantial.
Every year
as the days grow
warmer, the Eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) reemerges along the eastern coast of the United States, where it causes devastating disease in horses and, more rarely,
humans.
Also, a year ago, the Stanford team released poll findings indicating that three out of four Americans believe that «the Earth has been gradually
warming due primarily or at least partly
as the result of
human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it.»
[Haemophilus influenzae is a bacterium, the first organism to have its entire genome sequenced, which Venter completed in 1995; Drosophila is the common fruit fly, whose genome Venter sequenced
as a
warm - up to sequencing the
human genome.]
Meanwhile, most researchers believe that ever
warmer years will become routine
as humans pump more carbon dioxide and other
warming gases into the atmosphere.
The research concludes that for other changes, such
as regional
warming and sea ice changes, the observations over the satellite - era since 1979 are not yet long enough for the signal of
human - induced climate change to be clearly separated from the strong natural variability in the region
How will environmental changes such
as ozone depletion and global
warming affect
human health?
The panel reported that the world is
warming throughout the lower atmosphere,
as climate models had predicted, and acknowledged «clear evidence of
human influences on the climate system.»
Kyoto regulates all sources of carbon dioxide
as well
as other greenhouse gases, but reliable long - term data by country are available only for carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels (which accounts for about two - thirds of the
human contribution to global
warming).
Various
human species, including our own Homo sapiens, have endured ice ages and
warming periods
as well
as floods and droughts.
The report, written and reviewed by leading U.S. scientists
as part of the National Climate Assessment, reinforces that
warming temperatures and extreme weather around the globe are «extremely likely» to be the result of carbon pollution from
human activities.
The
warm climate probably allowed early
humans to migrate northwards without the need to develop technology such
as fire and clothing or to adapt to a colder climate, says Anthony Stuart of University College London, who coordinated the project.
«This quantitative attribution of
human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes
as well
as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse
warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.
Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who's overseeing U.S. EPA transition under Trump, issued a statement that described
human - driven
warming as real, but weak.
Mosquito - borne
human diseases such
as Zika virus, dengue fever and malaria are promoted by both heat and standing water, and could be exacerbated by
warm - wet extremes.