Sentences with phrase «debate over human»

Sweeping away the debate over human - made vs. «natural» climate change, and focusing on adaptation to extreme weather, sounds like it may be the best chance to get some real action.

In this special Cabot Institute lecture, in association with the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Professor Michael E Mann will discuss the science, politics, and ethical dimensions of global warming in the context of his own ongoing experiences as a figure in the centre of the debate over human - caused climate change.

The news that 2005 was the warmest year ever recorded in Australia comes at the end of a year in which, to the extent that facts can settle anything, the debate over human - caused global warming has been settled.

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

Saying the law will lead to an influx of unwanted and unsavory foreigners, as the AKC is doing, is the same kind of fear tactic that taints our country's broader debate over human immigration.

This question might sound familiar, because it was central to the 2001 debate over human embryonic stem cells — a debate that was, back in the months before the 9/11 attacks, considered a significant controversy for George W. Bush's new administration.

Attempting to find middle ground in the contentious debate over human embryonic stem cells, President George W. Bush announced 9 August that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be allowed to fund work with embryonic stem (ES) cell lines — but only those lines that have already been derived.

The two researchers analyzed nationally representative surveys collected between 2002 and 2010 with the goal of better understanding how the U.S. public came to form opinions in the debate over human embryonic stem cell research.

If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on - off - on funding of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in the debate over human embryonic stem (ES) cell research.

29 GENETICALLY MODIFIED SUPERHUMANS The debate over human germ - line engineering — reworking genes in the sperm and egg to create inheritable new traits — sputtered out early in the last decade after gene therapy had a series of notable failures.

With enough evidence from around the world, the debate over the Human Age could finally be settled.

There is a real diversity of informed opinion on how important climate change is going to be to various things that affect humans, and there is a diversity of opinion on how to address this problem, but the debate over human - induced climate change is over.

Not since the days of Clarence Darrow and the «monkey trial» has America been so caught up in the debate over human origins.

Yet just such an unlikely resolution may be in hand for one of the most acrimonious conflicts of recent times: the debate over human embryonic stem cells....

In the midst of heated debates over human - caused global warming, intelligent, knowledgeable people are now presenting evidence that global cooling is currently under way.

Not exact matches

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

The statement on Thursday comes amid a growing debate over the use of powerful new gene editing tools in human eggs, sperm and embryos, which have the power to change the DNA of unborn children.

The answer, at least for the near future, is likely to be the same as it in nearly all of the current debates over robots versus humans — a hybrid situation where the machines make the humans better.

In addition to suing over Clean Power Plan regulations, Pruitt has argued that climate activists should be prosecuted, and that debate over whether climate change is human - made should be encouraged in classrooms and Congress — despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the debate is settled.

This ties into the long standing debate that has been occurring over the past year about whether human workers will be needed if technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.

His apparent assumption that the debate is over — «Vehicles that we're producing are capable of full autonomy,» he said — is a little scary, considering how much still needs to be learned about the functioning of fully autonomous cars, and about the interaction of autonomous systems with humans in the cockpit.

In addition to painting an engaging picture of the saint who, in all his human frailty, followed Christ's example and died a martyr to charity, De Volder systematically addresses the debates over Damien's life and spirit.

To take just one example, five hundred years ago, during the Reformation, there was a debate over just how broken human nature truly is.

So last night our own Peter Lawler debated leading Darwinian Conservative Larry Arnhart here at RIT over the explanatory power of Darwinian evolution to capture to the totality of human experience in general and American political experience in particular.

Technological possibility will increasingly eclipse the very terms of our debate over abortion, and I suspect that «abortion politics» as we know it is on its way to being a relic of the past — a particularly brutal way we eliminated human life back when humans used to have children.

It assumes one favored outcome of the debate that is still underway over who or what is a human being.

Debate over this issue remains prominent among process theologians to this day and will be discussed more fully in the second part of this paper, but it should be remarked here that Hartshorne has consistently attempted to envision God, in this and in some other respects, after the model of the human person.

The nature in question in the debate over marriage equality is human nature, and specifically the nature of human sexuality.

This question has been the topic of considerable legal and social debate over the years since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision» debate that has only been intensified by the recent controversies over human embryonic stem cells and human....

What was needed in the debates over music during the 1950s and 1960s was a broader theological vision that could help the Cooke's and Lewis's of the world understand the continuity between the sacred and the profane in terms of the shaping and orientation of human desire.

The concept (and rhetoric) of a profound dichotomy between nature and nurture was superimposed over the more flexible and synergistic «traditional» understanding of the matter, markedly polarising and distorting the entire, many - sided debate about the role and weight of heredity and experience in both the natural world and the human situation.

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

Human rights group Liberty echoed Mr Huhne's call for a debate over the issue, and warned that under current law such a system would be illegal.

He claims some want the UK to get rid of the European Court of Human Rights, but he wanted a debate over which prisoners should get the vote.

The field of bioethics has addressed a broad swathe of human inquiry, ranging from debates over the boundaries of life (e.g. abortion, euthanasia), surrogacy, the allocation of scarce health care resources (e.g. organ donation, health care rationing) to the right to refuse medical care for religious or cultural reasons.

Fierce debate still rages over its significance, but many see it as a crucial piece of evidence in the story of how humans came to be — one that suggests flowers played a key role in our evolution.

Engle explores the debate among anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947, over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and cultural relativism with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.

Because the results hinted that human viruses might be similarly manipulated, a debate broke out over whether publishing such results would aid terrorists.

«Over the next 10 years, projects like the Neanderthal genome will lead to a contentious debate about what it means to be human,» Rick Potts says.

As «man's best friend» and closest companion animal, the researchers believe that the latest results may offer a new piece of the puzzle over the reported significant decline in human semen quality — a controversial subject which scientists continue to debate.

However, there has been much debate over when and how a human - like bipedal gait first emerged in the hominin clade, largely because of disagreements over how to indirectly infer biomechanics from skeletal morphologies.

The findings fit into the ongoing debate over whether tools mark the start of modern human culture, or predate Homo.

Debate over the timing of human origins will continue despite the new evidence from the child, whose remains came from previous shoreline excavations near the town of Ballito Bay, says Uppsala University evolutionary geneticist and study coauthor Mattias Jakobsson.

The prospect that fighting human - looking characters can provoke more aggression than unleashing violence against characters with no real - world counterparts could have implications for debates over gaming, especially as video games become more sophisticated and immersive, Farrar says.

But then we're not twins, or clones — and surely this, the Love Factor, is a term that's conspicuously missing from our modern debate over the ethics and wisdom of human cloning.

He says this idea has «very profound» implications for the debate over the origins of bacterial genes that are present in the human genome but absent in our closest relatives (Science, 8 June, p. 1903): The amount of conjugation Waters detected is «high enough to readily explain» the possible infiltration of bacterial genesinto our DNA, meaning that conjugation could have happened quickly enough to add genes only to humans, in the years since they split from the common ancestor they shared with chimpanzees.

Researchers have discovered tell - tale signs of Alzheimer's disease in 20 elderly chimpanzee brains, rekindling a decades - old debate over whether humans are the only species that develop the debilitating condition.

The claim echoes those made many times in the emotional debate over federal funding of new human embryonic work.

Before this study, scientists debated how these immune genes can evolve rapidly (which is necessary to keep up with the fast - evolving parasites), whilst also showing little or no evolutionary change in their function over millions of years, as observed between humans and chimpanzees.

Zinke acknowledged climate is changing and humans have had an influence, but claimed there is a lot of «debate» over how much of a role humans have played and what can or should be done to combat climate change.