Sentences with phrase «atmosphere by human beings»

The carbon footprint can be explained as the amount of carbon put into the atmosphere by human beings.

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But when asked by Sen. Bob Corker (R - TN) if human activity has contributed to climate change, Tillerson said that «the increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect,» and that «our ability to predict that effect is very limited.»

Part of the challenge in managing millennials, Sinek said, is counteracting their social conditioning by providing a work atmosphere that emphasizes longer - term rewards and human interaction.

He will not require not merely that the new knowledge be used as the foundation of the proof, but that the very spirit and atmosphere of the new knowledge enter in such a way into thedemonstration of God's existence, that the complexities and confusions of human thought engendered by the new knowledge shall be resolved in harmonious unity in the postulate of God's existence, nature, and relation to created being.

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

not really making the news, the atmosphere on last wednesday was really strange, silent, step by step to normal football, but you can't throw away your thoughts immediately, I just got a glimpse of Enkes personality during a film of him shown before the match, I can't realize how hard it must be for his wife to lose him, tomorrow the players of Germans first Bundesliga will wear a black ribbon again, but I think it won't affect the atmosphere like it has with the national team despite of Hannover of course, people will be enthousiastic again, but there is the idea of an «Enke donation» which I like, will keep his name alive, will take some positive emotions on this tragedy and a kind of appeal for everyone to reflect the important things of life and control your own behaviour, I hope so at least, and I hope his wife will cope with that situation, and again: it was really hard for the German nationl team to play under these circumstances, to lose someone close in this way is hard to deal with, on the other hand it causes a close solidarity feeling I think, but of course the world will not change, things are returning to the old soon, but nonetheless for me this tragedy is a kind of human wake - up call, at least a call and then you continue

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.

As humans emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, more of the gas is absorbed by the oceans, gradually making the water more acidic.

In an about - face, the agency agreed that global warming is happening; that humans, by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, are responsible; and that the American environment is likely to change dramatically over the next century.

«By extracting wood from unmanaged forest and bringing these forests under production, humans released carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be stored in the biomass, litter, dead wood, and soil of the forest,» Naudts said.

NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), slated for launch no earlier than 6:09 A.M. Pacific Standard Time on December 11, is charged with mapping the sky in the mid-infrared to create an atlas of objects whose emitted light is invisible to human eyes and largely absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

Ultimately, scientists hope to learn how aerosols affect clouds, how much aerosols are produced by humans and nature and how they travel in the atmosphere.

This stability in methane levels had led scientists to believe that emissions of the gas from natural sources like livestock and wetlands, as well as from human activities like coal and gas production, were balanced by the rate of destruction of methane in the atmosphere.

The setup, put together by scientists at the International Potato Center, is a hermetically sealed container that mimics the day lengths, atmosphere, and temperature of Mars, fed by a «nutrient rich water» (no word on whether human waste was involved).

«I agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing as a result of human activities — primarily burning coal, oil, and natural gas — and that this means the global mean temperature is likely to rise,» Ebell said in the statement released by CEI yesterday.

The HDST could finally answer the question of whether humans are alone in the Universe, by directly probing the atmospheres of dozens of extrasolar planets for signs of life.

Human - generated aerosols can enter the atmosphere directly, as is the case with soot emitted by internal combustion engines in cars and trucks, he explains.

When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that about half remains in the atmosphere and the remainder is stored in the oceans and on land.

How much of it is actually caused by humans adding CO2 to the atmosphere?

The point they make is that future climate change due to inertia has been assessed by keeping CO2 concentrations at some predetermined level, that is, that there will be no future increase in human input of CO2 into the atmosphere.

But this still means only about 5 % of the total flux into the atmosphere is what's added by humans.

Though the vast majority of climate scientists agree that the Earth's climate is changing as a result of human activities that increase the amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, researchers like Soon foment debate by publishing alternate hypotheses or denials.

A recent study suggested that land clearance and early agriculture by humans around that time could be the reason for the extra 40ppm in the atmosphere.

suggested that land clearance and early agriculture by humans around that time could be the reason for the extra 40ppm in the atmosphere.

But there can be too much of a good thing: In the last 200 years, humans have added a lot of extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas to produce energy.

Results: By sampling clouds and making their own, an international research team has shown for the first time that lead from human activities is changing the properties of clouds and, therefore, the way the sun's energy affects the atmosphere.

A new research paper by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory climate scientist Ben Santer and co-authors looks in detail at how climate change resulting from human activities is affecting the temperature of Earth's atmosphere.

The indirect aerosol effect on clouds is non-linear [1], [76] such that it has been suggested that even the modest aerosol amounts added by pre-industrial humans to an otherwise pristine atmosphere may have caused a significant climate forcing [59].

The rest is released by human activities, with coal - fired power plants contributing the largest source of mercury to the atmosphere.

Then they can be offered or made available according to the regional dynamics to have an initial acceptance followed by creating conducive atmosphere to enable a progressive and broader perspective oriented global citizens with global concerns and capabilities and character to enhance global welfare on all aspects of life of human beings, other species and the whole environment.

In both videos, as speakers engage with technical processes and bureaucratic systems, human vulnerability is gently drawn out, suffusing the works with an atmosphere of existential comedy, wrought from a present governed by opaque systems of control.

The mystic atmosphere of these paintings can apply to whichever period of humanity and talk about topics like faith, the human relationships, morality or devotion — because it's the things that could never be affected by the passage of time.

Hamilton's installation at Municipal Pier 9 (September 6 — October 10, 2016) will propel visitors into an immersive atmosphere of massive cylindrical curtains, inviting audiences to touch and be touched by the fabric of human experience.

It is predicated on observations and established science — that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, that humans are increasing CO2 in the atmosphere and that doubling CO2 will raise global temperatures by about 3 degrees.

Without the answer to these questions, how much carbon dioxide is put in the atmosphere by humans and what effect is it having, our actions will be random and have unknown effectiveness.

It's perfectly reasonable to be alarmed at plausible threats posed by unprecedented changes in the atmosphere and biology of the earth wrought by human activity, even in the absence of absolute proof of a connection between individual storms, extinctions, and economic catastrophes, and rising levels of CO2.

Further to 12 and eric's response: I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough: in the second sentence by Stefan that I quoted, «this» can only sensibly refer back to the whole of the first sentence, giving the reading That carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing rapidly in the atmosphere due to human activity is a measured fact not even disputed by staunch «climate skeptics.

That the threat posed by the buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities is sufficient to justify a concerted, sustained effort to curb, and eventually deeply cut, such emissions.

If he understood this, he would understand how humans have disrupted the carbon cycle — we are releasing carbon from long - term storage by burning fossil fuels, which is causing an imbalance in the cycle and is leading to a build of carbon in the atmosphere.

I.e. annually, what percent of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere is directly put there by human energy production?

Do you see the cognitively - dissonant coexistence of jepe's views on the entirely human - engineered land of Holland and his «the world is too big to be affected by anything we do» attitude about altering the composition of the atmosphere?

By now, everyone who pays any attention knows that CO2 is an important greenhouse gas, and that the recent increase in global average temperature is thought to have been largely due to humans pumping massive amounts of greenhouse gases (especially CO2) into the atmosphere.

To my eye, this animated graph, produced by the federal Earth Systems Research Laboratory, is one of the best attempts to put the recent human - driven surge in carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere into long - term context:

The IPCC scientists agree that much of the heat that humans have put into the atmosphere since the 1970s through greenhouse gas emissions probably has been absorbed by the ocean.

That is why the annual CO2 increase in the atmosphere also varies greatly each year, and this short - term variation is not mainly caused by variations in our emissions (so a record CO2 increase in the atmosphere in an El Niño year does not mean that human emissions have surged in that year).

In this paper (as in the past) Veizer is strangely vague on the question whether the recent CO2 increase in the atmosphere — which is at the very core of global warming concerns — is caused by humans.

Not so much by direct photolysis of water vapor (not generally a lot of that in the stratosphere), but from CH4, which could build up in a nearly oxygen - free atmosphere, and being largerly of biotic origin, with the H coming from photosynthesis (releasing O); O2 buildup itself was delayed because of geologic O2 sinks (in particular, the conversion of ferrous Fe (naturally present in the crust and mantle and which can dissolve in the oceans) to ferric Fe (precipitates out of the water, the source of banded - iron formations, which humans have used to get Fe).

The small batch of rich and fast - growing countries that dominate the global economy — and the human influence on the global atmosphere — are convening again under an effort initiated by the United States and aimed at creating partnerships and programs on climate and energy.

To make any sense, the net emissions by humans have to be compared with the net uptake by oceans and forests and atmosphere, not with the turnover rate of a cycle, which is an irrelevant comparison.

The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.