Sentences with phrase «better accounting of natural»

A better accounting of natural groundwater discharge is needed to constrain the range of contributions to sea level rise.

By Jim Steele A better accounting of natural groundwater discharge is needed to constrain the range of contributions to sea level rise.

Not exact matches

The Company's capital investment in the development of oil and natural gas properties and other capital expenditures, before the change in accounts payable, was approximately $ 250 million in the quarter and includes several Wattenberg wells being turned - in - line approximately two weeks ahead of schedule.

Forasmuch as each man is a part of the human race, and human nature is something social, and has for a great and natural good, the power also of friendship; on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.

In short, if those dissatisfied with the classical account of nonmoral evil currently under discussion are not able to present a better world, «the (classical) theist does not have to show that it was impossible for God to create a better set of world - constituents or natural laws, or even that this is the best of all possible worlds» (IPQ 179 - 98).

While it is true that the biblical view of creation sanctifies time and nature as created by God — and therefore good — it does not follow that the creation accounts as such are to be understood chronologically or as natural history.

Here's the confusion: Arkes proposes and defends the notion that natural law best accounts for our intuitions of equality and justice; Prof. Smolin responds by pointing out that people have believed evil things in the name of natural law.

Those who fear MacIntyre's position might commit him to some form of confessional theological position should be comforted by his adamant declaration that his metaphysical position, his account of natural law, as well as his understanding of practical reason and the virtues are secular.

Smith concludes his remarkable Providentialist account of «the natural course of things» (which by enlisting «interest» can bring good our of evil in a manner impossible through «the feeble efforts of human reason»), with his ringing tribute to his national church:

McGrath suggests a new reformulation of natural theology, seeing its task as offering an interpretation of nature based on Trinitarian faith, including an account of human engagement with nature in the moral and aesthetic dimensions as well.

He suggested that we might need a Teilhardian / Rahnerian perspective upon spirit emerging from matter, and also a good «natural theodicy» to take account of the fact that «death is constitutive of evolution».

Natural cleansers in particular perform well, accounting for 18 % of sales, compared to all cleansers which is 11 %.

I post a lot of humorous accounts of my experiences as a natural - minded mother as well as tips for staying sane while being successful.

That liberals are just as guilty of antiscience bias comports more with accounts of humans chomping canines, and yet those on the left are just as skeptical of well - established science when findings clash with their political ideologies, such as with GMOs, nuclear power, genetic engineering and evolutionary psychology — skepticism of the last I call «cognitive creationism» for its endorsement of a blank - slate model of the mind in which natural selection operated on humans only from the neck down.

The report found that six companies had changed disclosures for wells; Pioneer Natural Resources accounted for 62 of the changes.

The other good news: In the first global accounting of bee species in more than 100 years, entomologist John Ascher of the American Museum of Natural History documented 19,200 species worldwide, more than all the species of birds and mammals put together.

Both Ash and Roney pointed out the need for full cost accounting for natural gas in order to figure out if it is cost - effective: The industry must measure the price of mining, shipping and infrastructure for the fuel, as well as the value of natural gas's environmental and health consequences.»

The well - trodden route towards this ultimate theory is to try to find the right building blocks of reality and then see whether they can account for the natural phenomena we observe.

The EPA estimated in 2011 that natural gas drilling accounts for about 1,200 gigagrams, or 2.6 billion pounds, of methane emissions each year from well completions, equipment leaks and pneumatic controllers.

The needs of each individual dog should be considered when making a sartorial purchase — which means taking into account the size and age of the dog, as well as the length of her natural fur coat.

While accounting only for about 6 percent of all urinary bladder stones found in dogs, urate crystals have been shown to respond very well to low - protein diets especially those that come with natural acidifiers like cranberries.

As well as its unique, celebrity - driven mystique, the surrounding area's natural beauty accounts for much of the city's appeal, with countless cultural and recreational diversions along 75 miles of coastline.

At that time, there were «approximately 26,000 hydraulically fractured wells» in the United States, which accounted for «less than 7 %» of all U.S. marketed natural gas.11 By 2011, fracking had become the primary method for oil and natural gas development in the United States.

A simple comparison of observations with projections based on real world climate forcings shows a very close match, especially if we take natural unforced variability into account as well (mainly ENSO).

«They who in my time have attempted to correct the manners of the world by new opinions, reform seeming vices; but the essential vices they leave as they were, if indeed they do not augment them, and augmentation is therein to be feared; we defer all other well doing upon the account of these external reformations, of less cost and greater show, and thereby expiate good cheap, for the other natural, consubstantial, and intestine vices.»

Better statistical models thus might take into account the correlation of interannual variations, or have explicit account of natural drivers (the sun and volcanoes), but will quickly run into difficulties in defining these additional aspects from the single real world data set we have (which includes human impacts).

According to the U.S. Energy Department, up to 95 percent 1 of new wells drilled today are hydraulically fractured, accounting for two - thirds 2 of total U.S. marketed natural gas production and about half 3 of U.S. crude oil production.

As Skeptical Science readers are undoubtely well aware, the impact of natural climate drivers has been very thoroughly studied, and they simply can not account for the observed global warming or climate change, especially over the past 50 - 65 years (Figure 1).

(3) Natural as well as human - induced changes should be taken into account in climate model simulations of atmospheric temperature variability on the decade - to - decade time scale.

Natural variability in the N.H. during last 130 years accounts for about 0.75 C, which is half of 1.5 C that is attributed to the GHG by the BEST report.

3) we can easily account for the observed surface cooling in terms of the natural variability seen in the CMIP3 ensemble (i.e. the observed cold dip falls well within it).

Isolating natural hurricane losses, anthropogenic hurricane losses (or maybe something in the middle, i.e., hurricanes that would have happened anyway but were a few percent more intense), fully accounting for losses in the early part of the time series record, as well as increases in socio - economic infrastructure in vulnerable areas is pretty sketchy business... this is a new approach and something which should be investigated much further.

The motivation behind the concept is sound — we must account for, and quantify, the impacts of humanity on Earth's ecosystems if we are to manage the planet sustainably for the benefit of both human well - being and our natural heritage.

U.S. Department of Energy statistics show «up to 95 percent of new wells drilled today are hydraulically fractured, accounting for more than 43 percent of total U.S. oil production and 67 percent of natural gas production.»

In applauding the legislation the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) points out that old electronics account for about 40 % of the lead found in municipal landfills as well as mercury, cadmium, and other toxic heavy metals in landfills and municipal incinerators.

Regional climatic changes played a role as well, which was particularly relevant in Amazon rainforests, which accounted for 42 % of the global NPP increase, owing mainly to decreased cloud cover and the resulting increase in solar radiation (note that it is basically impossible to determine how much of this increase in NPP is a result of recent global climate change vs. natural climate variability, although both are likely to have played a role).

When the phase of natural variability is taken into account, the model 15 - year warming trends in CMIP5 projections well estimate the observed trends for all 15 - year periods over the past half - century.

If you have a natural talent for organization, an eye for numbers, and a keen sense of integrity, becoming an accounting assistant could be the best career move for you.

Additional parameters were added to account for a natural slowing in the rate of improvement of the IMM group (fixed 18 - month effect) after 12 months as well as the increased rate of improvement of the WLC group after they received treatment (group × 18 - month effect interaction).