Sentences with phrase «because human climate»

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Because there is no human crew, they can go to hard - to - reach and difficult environments to collect data and help scientists gain a better view of the state of ocean health and the changing climate.

I can explain climate change as a result of a natural cycle caused by the masses and orbits of the planets, but I don't go around calling believers in humans causing climate change idiots simply because I know what actually causes it.

The interviewer asks if this wouldn't make us less than human, which was the question we would have asked, and Vatinno answers: «Becoming less human is not necessarily a negative thing, because it could mean we are less subject to the whims of nature, such as illness or climate extremes.»

Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.

I have read that some scientists think dinosaurs became extinct because their climate changed - it got too cold, and again, no humans were around then.

And, well, I don't have a link because it was a personal experience, but I remember when some of my socially conservative friends found a scientific article called Human Engineering and Climate Change.

The question of whether or not humans cause climate change matters because for many people an answer of «no» will remove the need to act, and even if the answer is «yes» it helps determine who should pay.

This new characteristic of the climate will make it easier for climate researchers to differentiate between natural and human - induced climate changes, because it can be expected that the human - induced climate changes will not behave in the same way as the natural fluctuations.

Drivers of Climate Change Atmospheric concentrations of many gases — primarily carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and halocarbons (gases once used widely as refrigerants and spray propellants)-- have increased because of human activities.

The results imply that the interaction between organic and sulfuric acids promotes efficient formation of organic and sulfate aerosols in the polluted atmosphere because of emissions from burning of fossil fuels, which strongly affect human health and global climate.

If we can preserve those areas we have got a triple bottom line, because it's going to be good for humans by stabilizing the climate, it's going to be good for the wildlife because we are protecting their habitat and it's going to be good for economic growth in the long - term because it's going to be sustaining human populations locally.

A study published last year in the American Journal of Human Genetics used mitochondrial DNA to argue that the San Bushmen of southern Africa became isolated from other modern humans for up to 110,000 years, probably because climate change produced a great desert separating East Africa from southern Africa.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

«Because the complexity of the climate makes accurate prediction difficult, the APS urges an enhanced effort to understand the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate, and to provide the technological options for meeting the climate challenge in the near and longer terms.

Yet, it is clear that the climate is changing, primarily because of human actions, and in ways that are costly and deadly.»

But Stone predicts that because species in hot environments evolve body shapes that radiate heat better, climate change will cause humans to grow taller and slimmer.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

Because tomato plants are typically grown in hot, dry climates, they are watered using irrigation systems that draw from the same locations as human drinking water.

«This is a problem because forests currently take up about 25 percent of human emissions of CO2, which is an incredible break on climate change.»

Understanding these unique areas is important because there are many examples of naturally occurring hybrid zones, and new hybrid zones will form in the future as climate change and human impacts cause species distributions to shift and come into contact.

Does that mean the change we're seeing now is normal, or is the climate behaving in new ways because of human influence?

They argue that the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance is similar to that posed by climate change because it is a natural process exacerbated by human activity and the actions of one country can have global ramifications.

As the human population climbs, these cumulative changes will ultimately affect our economies and our well - being, because natural ecosystems perform — free of charge — many functions which we take for granted, such as purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.»

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Chhuman capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social ChHuman Evolution and Social Change.

The new research confirms heavy rainfall events are increasing across the Gulf Coast region because of human interference with the climate system.

Farmland is vanishing in part because the salinity in the soil is rising as a result of climate change and other human - made phenomena.

These are just a few obvious examples, but because the future Fox News pundit was talking about climate change let's consider something that is indisputable: the measured rise of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is numerically consistent with that predicted from the output of human industrial activity.

Thus, only human - made emissions, such as factory and car secretions, could cause runaway global climate change because they lack natural negative feedbacks to balance them.

But in Western Europe, I think it was a combination of the arrival of people with superior technology and climate change so the Neandertals were doubly unlucky, because at the time modern humans came into Europe, the climate of Europe was extremely unstable.

«But despite their abundance, there is growing concern about krill not only because of climate change, but because they are now being harvested for human food, nutritional supplements and aquaculture feed.

«This pattern didn't change because of previous mass extinctions or ancient climate variability, but instead, early human activities 6,000 years ago suddenly began resetting a basic property of natural communities.»

Climate skeptics tried to embrace Ruddiman simply because his views differed from conventional models — even though on the side of much greater sensitivity to human intervention.

Because we are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, we are able to look at evidence the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) iclimate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, we are able to look at evidence the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) iClimate Change (IPCC) ignores.

You would be very hard - pushed to find a large number of geologists who would argue that humans are creating modern climate change because in geology we've seen massive climate changes, we've seen sea levels go up and down like a yoyo.

The Persian Gulf could soon become too hot for human survival because of climate change, a study released Monday shows.

Human - caused climate change has been occurring over the last 200 yr, largely because of the combustion of fossil fuels and subsequent increase of atmospheric CO2.

«We recommend acting quickly, because pressure to over-exploit deep reefs will inevitably grow as shallow reefs become almost universally degraded due to growing human population pressures and climate change,» says co-author Dr. John Guinotte from the Marine Conservation Institute.

Because it contains greenhouse gases from a time before human emissions complicated the picture, the ancient air offers scientists clues to future climate patterns.

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences:

My point is that women's studies consists of humans and therefore the danger is this bias reflects over to climate science because scientists are human.

Earth, because of the climate system's inertia, has not yet fully responded to human - made changes of atmospheric composition.

The detailed temporal and geographical response of the climate system to the rapid human - made change of climate forcings is not well - constrained by empirical data, because there is no faithful paleoclimate analog.

Because locations throughout the inhabited world are expected to warm 2σ to 4σ by 2050, amplified rates of human conflict could represent a large and critical impact of anthropogenic climate change.

The Earth's climate is predicted to change over time, in part because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases - primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

Rimini has become a popular tourist destination not only because of its desirable climate and seaside location, but also because its sceneries reflect thousands of years of human achievement.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

We have been blessed with a small window of relative climate stability, the Holocene, which seems huge to us, because it is the only kind of global climate that human civilization has ever known.

With a confounding mix of uncertainty and urgency (because of the penalty for delay), a tougher challenge is shaping policies to blunt the human force pressing on the climate by cutting heat - trapping emissions.

visiting this site because they aren't sure what the truth is about human - induced climate change.

This is because the time scales for it to «rain out» and the amounts involved are such that humans can not, at least at this point, put enough of it in the atmosphere directly to significantly alter the global climate (although we may be able to have some local effects).