Sentences with phrase «by human effects»

This is a very similar result to Huber and Knutti (2011), who estimated that approximately 100 % of the observed surface warming since the 1950s has been caused by human effects.

Why are these two bits of the same current having completely different SST signals, and what agent is responsible for the change???? Conclusion: GW is a chain reaction caused by the human effects upon evapotransportation from the Nile flood plains into the AEW arena............ END OFF DISCUSSION

1) Fallacy of the single cause: Climate can change naturally, therefore it can not also be changed by human effects.

It was more than twenty years ago that Bill McKibben pointed out the simple fact that there is no longer any nook or cranny of the globe untouched by human effects.

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But when asked by Sen. Bob Corker (R - TN) if human activity has contributed to climate change, Tillerson said that «the increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect,» and that «our ability to predict that effect is very limited.»

Take, for instance, the «Butt Brush,» effect, a term coined by InformeDesign, a website for design and human - behavior research.

Human performance in other domains has been found to largely effected by variation in confidence (self - efficacy, Albert Bandura), attention and concentration (e.g. Daniel Kahneman), the flow state (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, think «the zone»), and even physiological state (e.g. Churchland http://bit.ly/1HZemTO).

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You can get the same physiological, and psychological benefits of prayer by meditating, exercising, singing, humming, or making human connections, without the side effects of irrationality.

Much of the effect can likely be explained by researchers unconsciously giving hints or suggestions to their human or animal subjects, perhaps in something as subtle as body language or tone of voice.

Whereas many European states rely on government machinery to effect charitable programs, these projects are accomplished in America by individuals and private charitable organizations, thereby personalizing charitable work and bringing compassion and human interaction to the forefront.

He criticizes textualism (a mode of judicial interpretation) by citing the author's attempt to «show how lawmakers are engaged in the creative work of ensuring that natural law... is given effect in our human living.»

It states that her «immunity from the effects of Original Sin» was «by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Saviour of the human race».

The great artifice of the cathedral however is not one effected in brick and mortar by its human architects.

The law and order of goodness and justice was broken by the first human beings, and this had a devastating effect on all of humanity since then.

Despite all this the fact remains that our stock was damaged at the beginning of human history by a real sin, and the effects of this sin are passed on to us all.

This transition is effected by the death of the abstract and alien God in the kenotic process of Incarnation and Crucifixion; but a religious form of faith can only grasp this process as a series of events that are autonomous and external to human consciousness.

For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings in order to effect wholeness.

Likewise, his commitment to counter the effects of human wastefulness and care for the earth can be celebrated by all Christians who believe God entrusts us with the care of his creation.

The dropping of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful effects on the environment and on human life stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.

When the Chinese dictatorship is replaced by a more humane regime» and one may reasonably think it is more a matter of when than if» the Christian proposal could have a world - transforming effect in aligning that society with the cause of human dignity.

«But Charles Darwin showed how it is possible for blind physical forces to mimic the effects of conscious design, and, by operating as a cumulative filter of chance variations, to lead eventually to organized and adaptive complexity, to mosquitoes and mammoths, to humans and therefore, indirectly, to books and computers.

It also hits at a the Biblical account of Satan's fall from heaven, the introduction of sin to earth through the temptation of Eve, the effect of that sin being the introduction of death and God's plan for saving humans from death by sending his son to die for our sins.

The idea of a God who not only sympathizes with all we feel and endure for our fellow men, but who will pour new life into our too languid love, and give firmness to our vacillating purpose, is an extension and multiplication of the effects produced by human sympathy.

The effect of the new method of philosophy instituted by Descartes and Locke was to make human mental operations and their contents the sole object of study, with the rest of nature the «unknown something» behind the veil of appearances.

If this radical change could be implemented by human decisions, other decisions could effect other changes.

We do not know what effect such prayers will have, but we do know that all generous prayer is valued by God, and while God always does the best that can be done in every circumstance, we may cherish the thought that God also can use prayer of that kind for furthering the divine purposes for good, though it may be in a way past human comprehension.

Your lifestyle directly causes misery on another part of the planet by supporting the corporations that spread misery to billions of people through the effects of industrialization, taking all natural resources from the masses, and herding humans into ever denser and easily manageable population centers.

Linear power is unidirectional power which is intended to produce an effect in another by virtue of a capacity to «influence, guide, adjust, manipulate, shape, control, or transform the human or natural environment in order to advance one's purposes (TCP 8).

He in effect recognizes this when he admits that «we form the idea of divine knowledge by analogical extension from our experience of human knowledge» (1970a, 155).

So far our comments have been largely a contrast of stances toward human existence: a plea for a more truly dialectical, less dualistic understanding of the relation between form and energy, a plea for a similar openness toward the past, a question about the future to the effect that the incompleteness of the present ought not to frustrate Dr. Altizer into insisting that the total reversal promised by the glimpsed eschatological future be the only standard or norm of faith.

The fact and effects of fallen human nature were then passed to subsequent generations by natural propagation.

Even though Job himself recognizes God as «all - powerful» (42:2), God's «power is limited by human freedom... God's love, like all true love, operates in a world not of cause and effect but of freedom and gratuitousness.»

If, for example, evil has been defeated from the very outset, and human history has already been secured by God in election, does this not render history a mere process by which God can effect the inevitable triumph of his grace, with human beings little more than the passive beneficiaries of his boundless and irresistible good will and grace?

Here's a better idea for this so - called «governor» to consider: Take a look at the research done by your alma mater, Texas A&M, on global warming and the effect it will have on Texas (higher temps and greater stress on water through decreased rainfall and increased evaporation)... then stop poopooing the efforts to mitigate the effect humans are having on climate change.

In those latter comments, Rusty says he feels chastened by a reader's letter to the effect that, contrary to what Rusty may have suggested in the initial column, it is «indeed the case today that free market libertarians are the most likely people to dismiss the role of authority in human flourishing.»

Human intercourse can be effected by looks or gestures, and particularly by means of words.

She can not build either on a «democratic process» which in effect means human opinion at its best, and the indoctrination of the masses by the media power of money, sex, commercial interests at its more usual.

I am inclined to think that Christians tended to be misled by the anthropomorphic ideas of God with which, quite rightly up to a point, they often operated; and that they found it unnecessarily difficult to think of salvation being effected by the personal Spirit of God reaching out to men in judgment, mercy, forgiveness and love through the medium of a human personality.

For example, after asking whether a molecule in a human body is affected by the decisions of the dominant human occasion, he says that it would be more consonant with his philosophy to say that the direct effects would be negligible, but that the indirect effects would be important.

The nineteenth century saw the reality of the «historical facts» as consisting largely in names, places, dates, occurrences, sequences, causes, effects — things which fall far short of being the actuality of history, if one understands by history the distinctively human, creative, unique, purposeful, which distinguishes man from nature.

Why not assume instead that, if it is by reason of the cosmic structure, and not by chance, that man has become «legion», by the same token it is not through chance, but through the prolonged effect of «cosmic coiling», that the human layer is weaving and folding - in upon itself in the way we see it to be doing?

The other implication of this way of thinking about human nature is that we must not separate groups, classes or races of men by assigning to one the image of God and to the other the effects of the fall.

Thankful he DOES know the plight of us humans shackled by our personal sin, and longing for a new earth free of its effects.

By declaring that it was unnecessary to decide when human life begins, and by refusing to inquire into what or, more precisely, who is being killed when the woman exercises her «right to choose,» the Court made it possible to pretend that abortion was in effect a victimless crimBy declaring that it was unnecessary to decide when human life begins, and by refusing to inquire into what or, more precisely, who is being killed when the woman exercises her «right to choose,» the Court made it possible to pretend that abortion was in effect a victimless crimby refusing to inquire into what or, more precisely, who is being killed when the woman exercises her «right to choose,» the Court made it possible to pretend that abortion was in effect a victimless crime.

These things happen as part of the human condition, they are neither effected by prayer, no fixed by deity intervention.

In the part beyond human conscious, where a person can't instantaneously grasp cause and effect, that's where faith leads to the poetic and sometimes seemingly delusional metaphors, used by religion to describe God or whatever aspect is just beyond perception when the person only has incomplete information, but still needs something to help us retain what understanding they're starting to build.

It held that the words used by Carlin were offensive «for the same reasons that obscenity offends,» noting the FCC's finding that ««[o] bnoxious, gutter language describing [sexual and excretory bodily functions] has the effect of debasing and brutalizing human beings.»

In a world marked by the effects of original sin, and certainly in a post-Christian, secular culture, one can agree that human beings have a very difficult time grasping metaphysical truths or principles of the natural law.

They would insist, as the Bible insists, as the life of faith continues to insist, that this epoch in Israelite history witnessed an intense series of divine - human encounters, initiated by God himself and effected by his Word.