Sentences with phrase «by human activity may»

Global Warming, caused by human activity may very well be happening, but there is a chance that it is not.

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What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

They may be made in the sense that by human activity conditions are created in which the values become manifest.

Because this authority is predicated on the need to achieve certain specifiable ends that some people may not wish to promote, and because often reasonable people can disagree about how human activities should be coordinated to attain those ends, we get queasy about enforcing this kind of authority by law.

Recent correspondence concerning sexuality and love draws me to argue that, surprising as it may seem, sexual activity can not by itself generate or increase human love.

Watching the latest, entirely hapless, efforts of Theresa May to seem like a normal human person by attempting to participate in that most regrettable of group activities, a Mexican wave, your columnist was struck by how apt a metaphor it was for the ineptitude shown by Liverpool FC in their transfer strategy so far this summer.

Then some recommendations for first steps that scientific associations may take are provided, followed by some specific examples of the range of human rights - related activities in which scientific associations are currently engaged.

Next, although science may come closer to universality than any other human activity, there are distinct local variations, as scientists adapt to local constraints and approach science with ways of thinking that are influenced by local culture, and these different ways of doing science can teach us things.

«By doing this we were able to, for the first time, conceptualise such experiences as potentially representing endeavours at the extreme end of human agency, that is making choices to engage in activity which may in certain circumstances lead to death.

And it may be that elephant populations that are heavily poached or otherwise adversely affected by human activities are similarly socially damaged, they say.

Spurred by human activity, the crisis is occurring faster and could extinguish more species than the gigantic asteroid strike that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

The deaths «may very well be exacerbated by human activity,» says Susan Barco, research coordinator and senior scientist at the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Foundation.

Although the orchid's «body odor» is barely detectable by humans, it does set off electrical activity in the mosquito's antennae, indicating it may very well attract the insects.

Respiration by bacteria may have slightly increased levels of CO2 in pockets of air trapped within polar ice caps meaning that before human activity CO2 levels may have been even lower than previously thought.»

This influx of diversity into the reef likely helped originally build the reef, and may help replenish areas destroyed by human activity or hurricanes, Bryan said.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

Telomere length predicts both cellular health and disease in rodent models and humans.8 Shorter telomeres predict onset of cardiometabolic diseases of aging.9 Chronic stress is associated with higher inflammation, shorter telomeres, and lower activity levels of telomerase, the cellular enzyme that elongates telomeric DNA.10, 11 Levels of amyloid beta (Aβ) proteins circulating in the blood appear to be stress - related in rodent models12 and may be affected by stress reduction, and greater Aβ42 / Aβ40 ratios are associated with lower risk of dementia.13

In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who «fears love almost as much as he fears hatred» may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.

Dogs may injure themselves just like humans can by a small fall, twisting or from activity (as well as blunt trauma); it may be a simple injury which will self resolve with rest, restrict Moreno's movement and take him outside on the lead to stop him from moving too much.

During the final cycle of activities, experts worked on the elaboration of recommendations that may contribute in understanding and mitigating the risks of infectious diseases potentially transmitted by companion animals to humans and food animals.

They are not, however, the breed for those who only give a pat and promise because they will invent their own activities which may or may not be a productive use of their time by human standards.

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I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

There have been a host of efforts to describe Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency, ranging from volumes of helpful graphics generated by The Times and other media to freelance efforts, including the «sonification» of a month of earthquake activity surrounding the great quake off Japan by Paul May and a chart by Randall Munroe comparing human radiation exposure from an array of sources — ranging from a banana to a mammogram to a leaking nuclear plant and «A Layman's Intro to Radiation» by Ellen McManis, who operates a research reactor at Reed College.

even as we are probably being propelled into a new ice age, by forces independent of human activity, the warming oceans, most probably largely caused by undersea volcanic activity in the pacific ocean, may cause a continuing warming trend in alaska.

«In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean global temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.»

It may be helpful to use a different term to refer to people whose actions indicate a high degree of certainty that they are not genuinely interested in developing a continuously improved best understanding of what is going on, motivated by a resistance to the changes of human activity that is required by that improved understanding.

«Scientists are also unnerved by the summer's implications for the future... proof that human activities are propelling a slide toward climate calamity... humans may have tipped the balance... a particularly harsh jolt to polar bears.»

And a large body of evidence shows that all those changes may be linked to the greenhouse gases created by human activity, which are accumulating in our atmosphere.

A significant and serious concern among mainstream climate scientists in this regard is the inability of the models to predict climate surprises, that is, rapid non-linear changes in the climate system that have happened in the historical climate record and that may be triggered by current human activities.

The various kinds of evidence examined by the panel suggest that the troposphere actually may have warmed much less rapidly than the surface from 1979 into the late 1990s, due both to natural causes (e.g., the sequence of volcanic eruptions that occurred within this particular 20 - year period) and human activities (e.g., the cooling of the upper part of the troposphere resulting from ozone depletion in the stratosphere).

But even if the world is warming (which may or may not be attributable to human activity), that is not necessarily catastrophic by any means.

While some may argue that these are «natural» disasters, there is increasing consensus that rising temperatures, caused by human activity, are contributing to the number and intensity of these events.

This effect may be strengthened by emissions from human activities.

For this is a problem that if not controlled may cause the death of tens or hundreds of thousands of helpless victims caused by intense storms and heat waves, the death or sickness of millions that may suffer dengue fever or malaria, the destruction of some nations» ability to grow food or provide drinking water, the devastation of forests and personal property, and the acceleration of elimination of countless species of plants and animals that are already stressed by other human activities.

While the observed trends may be «consistent with» the NCA authors» «expected changes due to human activities,» in actuality they are, in fact, not caused by human activities.

The term sometimes is used to refer specifically to climate change caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes.

Accepting the CO2 record at face value might be risky, but I do not believe that this basically changes his conclusion that any recent CO2 increase may not have been caused by human activity.

As you may imagine, this paper, by Kevin Cowtan and Robert Way is being hotly discussed in the global warming blogs, with reaction ranging from a warm embrace by the global - warming - is - going - to - be-bad-for-us crowd to revulsion from the human - activities - have - no - effect - on - the - climate claque.

As a smaller fraction of the excess CO2 goes into the oceans, a larger fraction may remain in the atmosphere, and the chemical changes in seawater that can affect organisms will continue to grow in lockstep with the relentless increases in the excess CO2 in the overlying atmosphere caused by human activities.

Of course, it also possible there may be still be other serious climatic changes in store for us, independent of human activity, as Ronald Wright has correctly pointed out, but for our species to have caused, by our hand, the near certainty that drastic changes will occur demonstrates monumetal recklessness and stupidity.

(Geoengineering is popular among right - leaning think tanks; as are the views — which Thernstrom does not share — that climate change isn't caused by human activities, or that our contribution is overhyped and may not be the primary cause.)

Climate change may be caused by both natural variations and by human activities.

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Neural activity within brain regions innervated by serotonergic neural pathways, such as the human amygdala, may serve as another likely information processing mechanism involved in the storage and transmission of cultural values of individualism and collectivism.