Sentences with phrase «change the activity causing»

[Offsetting is what you do when you don't want to or can't change the activity causing the problem, you offset, you make amends elsewhere.]

Offsetting is what you do when you don't want to or can't change the activity causing the problem, you offset, you make amends elsewhere.

Not exact matches

Such activities can help change a naysayer mindset by showing staffers the value of working together for a common cause.

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

Social causes drive 30 percent of all activity, which Massolution expects to change as more startups and SMEs begin leveraging the platform.

The president of Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, recently claimed he is not smart enough to know whether human activity — i.e. the fossil fuel industry — causes climate change.

«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.»

14 Technical details are not too relevant here, but I want to mention briefly that it is unlikely that one would find gross dissociations between the electrical activities in the field and in the neurons because an autonomous change in the field should cause a corresponding change in the neurons.

For example, the Church does not know whether the planet is getting warmer, whether such change would be good or bad, or whether human activity is the cause; nor does she know whether minimum - wage laws do more good to the poor by increasing the income of those who work, or more harm to the poor by throwing those with marginal skills out of work.

Rising sea levels, more intense and more frequent weather events, crop failures, and negative public health effects have all been linked to climate change, which scientists agree is caused by human activity.

You would think that this flurry of activity would cause significant movement to the NBA futures market, but there's been surprisingly little change.

Stress, changes in your diet, increased physical activity and a host of other factors can cause your period to be late or missed altogether.

It can be caused by several things such as reduced saliva production from hormonal changes, increased kidney activity because of increased blood flow, causing frequent urination and dry mouth, or gestational diabetes (which your doctor should check for as a part of your normal prenatal care).

«The key to our comprehensive plan to change that is to target gang activity by attacking the root cause — youth recruitment — through programs and outreach to protect vulnerable students,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for Governor, called today upon Governor Cuomo to acknowledge the climate change is being caused by human activity, starting with the burning of fossil fuels.

Among the important factors that could cause Rio Tinto's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, among others, levels of actual production during any period, levels of demand and market prices, the ability to produce and transport products profitably, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on market prices and operating costs, operational problems, political uncertainty and economic conditions in relevant areas of the world, the actions of competitors, activities by governmental authorities such as changes in taxation or regulation and such other risk factors identified in Rio Tinto's most recent Annual Report on Form 20 - F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») or Form 6 - Ks furnished to the SEC.

Point One should be «climate change isn't cause by human activity» or «this climate change is normal» (which are both closer to what Trump thinks).

«There is no credible doubt that climate change is real and is caused by human activity,» Gillibrand said.

If climate change is mostly caused by human activity, then climate change can be managed using the same mechanisms.

Accepting the denier's view that human activity is not causing climate change would also preclude the natural solution to human - caused climate change.

He will continue to deny climate change caused by human activity; and will use his committee position to attack the EPA move to cut power plant carbon emissions.

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is the latest lawmaker to join fellow GOP lawmaker Chris Gibson in backing a resolution that acknowledges climate change is caused by human activity and should be combated.

«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.

A Washington Post-Stanford University poll in June found 77 percent of Americans say rising global temperatures are at least partly the result of human activity, while 22 percent said that climate change is the result only of natural causes.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Only 10.4 percent of participants agreed with the statement, «climate change is occurring and it is caused mostly by human activities.»

The behavioural changes could have caused extra stress and competition for food, since the elephants had less time to go about their daily activities, he says.

They agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activity had caused most of Earth's warming over the second half of the 20th century.

It is proposed that their activity is caused by local changes in the electronic structure.

They found a strong positive relationship between trust in specific groups and whether they agreed that human activity is causing climate change.

Peaks in solar activity cause the city to flood more often, apparently by changing the paths of storms over Europe.

In September 2014, Koonin wrote an editorial where he acknowledged human - caused climate change was happening but wrote that the «impact today of human activity appears to be comparable to the intrinsic, natural variability of the climate system itself.»

It gives an understanding of how changes caused by Solar activity or by super nova activity can change climate.»

According to some predictions, climate change caused by human activity could cause mass extinction in the oceans, redraw the planet's coastlines, and ravage world food supplies.

However, conflicting results left the question of whether and how phantom pain is caused by changes in sensorimotor activity unanswered.

Suppressing activity in the supplementary motor area caused no significant change in participants» ability to follow a beat.

Volcanic eruptions and solar variations were still plausible causes of change, and some argued these would swamp any effects of human activities.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

But getting nations to acknowledge that the climate is changing, that the leading cause is human activity and that everyone is obligated to act is only the first step.

Even when a prime, rock - free site is found, samples can be contaminated with microbial activity or by modern air that seeps in when temperature changes cause the ice to crack.

Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.

But where deformation does not occur — which the satellites revealed to be the case at the western wells — rocks are stiff and can break, resulting in earthquake activity in the aftermath of large pressure changes, including those caused by wastewater injection.

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.

A number of causes have been suggested, including changes in ocean currents due to melting glaciers and volcanic activity.

A six - year study of seismic activity along the San Andreas Fault found that the 2004 Parkfield earthquake caused breakage and microcracking in shallow rock layers that changed the speed at which seismic waves moved through the area, making it more vulnerable to tremors for more than three years afterward.

«Previous studies had correlated increased activity in the primate VTA with positive events experienced by the animal but could not prove that VTA activity actually caused behavioral changes,» says Wim Vanduffel, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH, corresponding author of the Current Biology paper.

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

Human activity and human - caused climate change have changed the magnitude of these fluxes, however, as well as added new categories of biogenic fluxes such as those resulting from sewage, cattle, and fertilizer use.

The new discoveries show that the formation 40 to 50 million years ago of the «Pacific Ring of Fire,» an active seafloor zone along the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, caused dramatic changes in ocean depth and volcanic activity and buckled the seabed of Zealandia, according to Dickens.