Sentences with phrase «bear human effects»

It is now agreed that we can't explain the detailed temperature record of the 20th century without bringing to bear human effects and GHG emissions.

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In a terrific 1985 book, To Engineer is Human — The Role of Failure in Successful Design, Henry Petroski argues that every structure that engineers build is a hypothesis — an educated guess to the effect that «yes, indeed, this bridge is strong enough to bear the weight of all that traffic on a daily basis.»

Mass Audubon generally opposes most nuisance control practices, including spraying of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes when there is a relatively low risk of mosquito - borne disease, because of the human health risks of pesticide exposures, harmful environmental effects, and unproven effectiveness of these activities.

U.S. Advocates Human & Property Rights Solely for Those Nations Who Have the Power to Demand Them Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, took note this morning of the Obama Administration's perverse rationale regarding the compensation of the poorer nations bearing the earliest and worst effects of climate change, as spelled...

So the animal studies give us only a hint at how early experience can affect development — the way human babies are treated by caregivers has even more effects on them than for any other animal because they are born so immature.

Scientists are forced either to experiment on whole animals, which is expensive, raises ethical issues and may not predict effects in humans, or to perform tests on microscopic human cells found in tissue cultures, which have been altered to live forever and bear little relation to actual living, breathing people.

Before you choke on your snack, bear in mind that most of these doses fall well below the levels considered harmful by regulators, while others don't have any discernible effect on the human body.

BPTES not encased in the nanoparticle delivery system had little effect on tumor size in 12 human tumor - bearing mice.

If scientists can figure out how animals like bears, bats, and mice survive the low - oxygen effects of hibernation, D'Allesandro says, it could lay the groundwork for human journeys to not just the mountains — but maybe to Mars.

In humans, Burd says, some babies born to mothers infected later are still showing some ill - effects, though it is unclear why.

Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.

This ancient remedy is explored by Dr Todd Born ND, in terms of its clinical application and the slowly expanding body of published data on its effects on human physiology and biology.

The notion that sugar is the root cause of the global obesity and diabetes epidemics — bearing disastrous effects on the human body above and beyond simply being empty calories — warrants serious scrutiny, Taubes states.

It is a title that, at first, may seem unusual for a film about the human body's gradual betrayal of itself, and the effect this has on those who experience it and those who merely bear witness to it.

Low - income and minority communities have historically borne disproportionately high or adverse human health or environmental effects of infrastructure projects.

Research Assistant, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, NY (May 00 — Aug 00) The interactions of tree regeneration, rodent and bird populations, and tick density and their effect on the risk of human exposure to vector - borne disease.

And yet, declaring polar bears endangered would have great effects that would help push the country off our coal and oil addiction, probably saving thousands of human lives per year in the US alone.

While pressing for cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions and better efforts to control hunting, both legal and illegal, the participating scientists concluded on an optimistic note, saying they were «optimistic that humans can mitigate the effects of global warming and other threats to polar bears, and ensure that they remain a part of the Arctic ecosystem in perpetuity.»

There are many interesting comments from proponents of human caused climate change (AGW or anthropogenic global warming) and from sceptics which show an astonishing range of differing interpretations and understandings of the so called Greenhouse Effect none of which bear much relation to the actuality.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

Moreover, the main emphasis made by the PBSG is not the effect of global warming on polar bears, but humans shooting them.

The sea butterfly joins the parade of icons like polar bears, penguins, pika, mangroves and Parmesan's butterflies where the effects of natural climate variability or direct human interference are obscured and falsely promoted as catastrophic climate change.

The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.

These methods include inference of surface temperature change from vertical temperature profiles in the ground (bore holes) at many sites around the world, rate of glacier retreat at many locations, and studies by several groups of the effect of urban and other local human influences on the global temperature record.

Her judgement has the effect of rendering the term «employment» more or less meaningless while introducing a rule of statutory interpretation (that so - called «quasi-constitutional» statutes — I'm not sure how the BC human rights code is more of a «quasi-constitutional» document than the BC Dog Leash Act, both have the same legal status, but that's a separate issue — should be given interpretations which bear no ressemblance to what their text actually provides.