Sentences with phrase «believe human activity»

Of course just because you accept that the planet is warming doesn't mean you believe human activity is causing it.

The Vision Prize also conducted an online survey of scientists in 2012, finding in a sample of 171 participants that approximately 90 % believe human activity has had a primary influence on global warming over the past 250 years, with the other 10 % describing the human influence as a secondary influence.

It reports more than 90 percent have concluded that climate change is real — and of that group, 90 percent believe human activity is at least partly responsible for this phenomenon.

For those of you in Rio Linda, it means that the public will not believe human activity causes global warming if they learn about problems the IPCC can't explain, and if Gore's big accusation that skeptic scientists are corrupt can't be proven.

D'Aleo is a former Weather Channel meteorologist and executive director of Icecap.us, a project that seeks to connect «respected scientists and journalists that are not deniers,» but who don't believe human activity is the main driver of global warming.

For the most part, Smith hasn't had to address the climate issue back home, even though polls show that a majority of his adult constituents believe human activity is causing global warming and Texas has suffered more severe climate and weather disasters since 1980 than any other state.

Do you believe the human activity is significant factor that causes global warming?

Rasmussen Reports — a pollster that tends to lean right — reported in April that only 40 percent of Americans believe human activities are responsible for global warming.

I believe human activities have contributed to increases in greenhouse concentrations, and these increases can be expected to produce a gradual increase in global mean temperatures.

Why does Heartland president Joe Bast frequently say things like: «Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the Earth's climate.»

[click, Image 2] 84 % believe human activities are causing the warming, and only 5 % disagree.

According to the MIT Technology Review, which published a post-debate synopsis, Romney's aide did indeed affirm that his candidate believes «climate change is occurring,» and that he «believes human activity contributes to it.»

Not exact matches

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

It is in these activities that human beings have believed themselves to enjoy a freedom and an illumination that the satisfaction of wants can never supply.

First, it came to be believed that «work» (this activity of exploiting the natural resources of the world for the satisfaction of human wants and the attitude towards the world that went with it) was not only typical of mankind but was our proper attitude and occupation.

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.

If you don't believe in a God (s) then all religious activity is merely human activity to which Atheists are just as prone to preform as well.

«68 So, too, is Walter Kerr, who believes that animals first discovered play and left it to man as a legacy.69 What I have been arguing is that the activity I have described as play requires an attitude uniquely human.

«Its provisions seek to affirm as a matter of statute that no - one should be under any duty to participate in activities that they believe involve the taking of human life, either in the withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment or in any activity authorised by the 1967 or 1990 Acts.»

The other possibility — and the one I believe makes much more sense and is more in accord with the biblical witness — is that in Jesus the energizing and indwelling activity of God in human creation reaches a climactic stage.

The divine aim to call forth civilizations whose meanings and purposes are at one with God's purposes - for - them and whose histories accord with the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only where individual human beings, citizens of those societies, act and believe in ways transparent to the ways of God.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

The more we're able to explain human behavior in terms of molecular genetics or brain activity or biological function — absent a Creator — then the more questions I have about what I believe, and why.

[35] In other words, CAR activists believe that Christians should refrain from trapping or severely limit their trapping activities on the basis that trapping violates God's requirement that humans protect His creation.

Neither will claim exemption from human finitude, but together they will inspire confidence that enough can be believed with sufficient assurance to give reliable meaning to life and to the directing of human activities.

While we firmly believe that, as a thinking religious person, you engage in this quite normal human activity all the time, we hope this study will enable you to do theology more deliberately and effectively in the future, thereby deepening your faith and enriching your religious life.

He believes that the popularly «conservative» refusal to relate global warming to human activity is like tobacco company executives» denial of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

You believe it to be a human clump of cells (with a heartbeat & brain activity) that should be easily disgarded.

«I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» the first term senator said Sunday on ABC «This Week,» after being asked by ABC News» Jon Karl whether humans were contributing to the heating up of the planet.

I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor.

We believe that engagement in human rights activities will provide scientific associations an opportunity to meet their responsibilities to both groups.

The researchers found that 70 % of respondents believe that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and 45 % believe the threat is high or very high.

«I believe that the human spaceflight program is in the long run possibly the most significant activity in which our nation is engaged.»

The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February issue of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.

«Our research so far has shown pretty clearly that although most farmers believe that climate change is occurring, a minority attribute it to human activity,» said Arbuckle, an associate sociology professor at Iowa State University.

Farmers who said they trusted environmental groups for information about climate change were more likely to believe that climate change was occurring and that it was due to human activity.

He found that two - thirds of farmers believe that climate change is occurring but 8 percent of the total thought it was mostly due to human activities.

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.

In contrast, 66 percent of corn producers surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with 8 percent pinpointing human activities as the main cause.

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.»

More than 90 percent of the scientists and climatologists surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with more than 50 percent attributing climate change primarily to human activities.

The above notwithstanding, the world of SF and the world of «real» science do overlap to a considerable degree — more than either of them do with any other human activity, I believe.

In humans, a similar protein complex called CSN and its subunit CSN6 is now believed to be a cancer - causing gene that impacts activity of another gene (Myc) tied to tumor growth.

Humans who indulge in these activities often do it partly for the thrill of breaking taboos, or because they delight in doing things they believe to be morally wrong.

[emphasis added] Bast: «We believe that climate has warmed in the second half of the 20th Century, we believe that there is probably a measurable human impact on climate but it's probably very small, we think that natural forces probably overwhelm any impact that human activity can have, that computer models are too unreliable to forecast what the future might hold for climate and finally that a modest amount of warming is probably going to be, on net, beneficial both to human beings and the ecosystem.

By the way, I'd just like to mention that I am far happier to be arguing about the comparative benefits of nuclear power, wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, conservation, efficiency, reforestation, organic agriculture, etc. for quickly reducing CO2 emissions and concentrations, than to be engaged in yet another argument with someone who doesn't believe that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, or that human activities are not causing warming, or that the Earth is cooling, or thinks that AGW is a «liberal» conspiracy to destroy capitalism, etc..

I have my reasons for believing that human activity is harming the planet to a great extent, but I couldn't prove it to a skeptic, so I rely on the seatbelt analogy: even if I never get into an accident, it was well worth the effort to click it on - the adult thing to do.

There's quite a contrast between Curbelo's position and the shape - shifting views of presidential hopeful Senator Marco Rubio, who in 2014 said, «I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it,» and continues, at best, to offer oblique, meaningless replies when the issue comes up.

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That CO2 levels are caused by something other than human activity, or that the skeptics believe that CO2 levels are caused by something other than human activity?