Sentences with phrase «discernible human»

Audible television is associated with decreased exposure to discernible human adult speech and decreased child vocalizations.
Steve Schneider helped the world understand that the burning of fossil fuels had altered the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, and that this change in atmospheric composition had led to a discernible human influence on our planet's climate.
As Judith says, one of the key conclusions is the paragraph in large red letters «Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations... Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental - average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind patterns (see Figure SPM.4 and Table SPM.2).»
«CMOS endorses the process of periodic climate science assessment carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and supports the conclusion, in its Third Assessment Report, which states that the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.»
Note, it was not until 1995 that the IPCC 2nd Assess Report identified a discernible human influence on global climate.
Together, they concluded that the nuanced language of 1995, which said «the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate,» was clearly out of date.
The report confirms that most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations and that discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental - average temperatures, temperature extremes and wind patterns.
«The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate» Intergovernmental Panel.
As Bernie Lewin reminds us in one chapter of a fascinating new book of essays called Climate Change: The Facts (hereafter The Facts), as late as 1995 when the second assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with its last - minute additional claim of a «discernible human influence» on climate, Nature magazine warned scientists against overheating the debate.
Benjamin D. Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory whose work for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was challenged by the Global Climate Coalition and allied groups, said the coalition was «engaging in a full - court press at the time, trying to cast doubt on the bottom - line conclusion of the I.P.C.C.» That panel concluded in 1995 that «the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.»
(Nanowerk News) New research shows some of the clearest evidence yet of a discernible human influence on atmospheric temperature.
Because no tool is available to test the supposition of human - induced climate change and the range of natural variability is so great, there is no discernible human influence on global climate at this time».
1995 discernible human influence on global climate 2001 surface temperature projected to increase 1.4 - 5.8 C 1990 -2100, and sea level to rise by 0.1 - 0.9 meters 2007 (Nobel peace prize) Climate warming unequivocal.
Nonetheless, the IPCC concluded that «the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.»
In 1995, the IPCC had already concluded — based on work by Ben Santer and other leading climate scientists working on the problem of climate change «detection and attribution» — that there was already now a «discernible human influence» on the warming of the planet.
A graph is worth a thousand words as Mann's «hockey stick» showed and so it was with Santer's «discernible human influence».
But there is now an effective consensus among the world's leading scientists and serious and well - informed people outside the scientific community that there is a discernible human influence on the climate and a link between the concentration of carbon dioxide and the increase in temperature.
The «discernible human influence» supposedly revealed by the IPCC has been cited thousands of times since in media around the world, and has been the «stopper» in millions of debates among nonscientists.»
A physicist is no more likely than a sociologist to know what human emissions will be 50 years from now — if a slight warming would be beneficial or harmful to humans or the natural world; if forcings and feedbacks will partly or completely offset the theoretical warming; if natural variability will exceed any discernible human effect; if secondary effects on weather will lead to more extreme or more mild weather events; if efforts to reduce emissions will be successful; who should reduce emissions, by what amounts, or when; and whether the costs of attempting to reduce emissions will exceed the benefits by an amount so large as to render the effort counterproductive.
2 «The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (United Nations), Second Assessment Report, 1996
But by the mid-1990s, thousands of lines of independent inquiry supported the conclusion summarized in the 1995 IPCC report: «The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.»
«Ben was famously responsible for the IPCC 1995 Report's landmark statement that there was a «discernible human influence on global climate», a message now strongly reinforced by a further 12 years of scientific research,» says Professor Barry Brook, Director of RIsCCS at the University of Adelaide.
... Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental - average temperatures, temperature extremes, and wind patterns The ASA endorses the IPCC conclusions
The second event that increased my skepticism was the «discernible human fingerprint» scandal in 1995.
This was when lead author Santer changed the IPCC report after scientists had signed off on it saying there was now evidence of a «discernible human fingerprint» in atmospheric temperatures.
The models, in important ways that were once claimed to be proof of ``... a discernible human influence on global climate», are now shown to be FUBAR.
The second IPCC report, published in 1995, invoked the «sulfate - aerosol effect» and produced the memorable but essentially meaningless phrase that «the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.»
Another New Paper Reveals No Discernible Human Influence On Global Ocean Temperatures, Climate.
«It was only when the IPCC was threatened with alienation from the climate treaty process that it suddenly concluded «a discernible human influence on global climate,» the GWPF press release reads.
Contrary to Stewart's claim that the world was united by scientific evidence in the early 1990s, even by 1995, there was still only the «suggestion», on the «balance of evidence», that there had been a «discernible human influence on global climate» — and that's in the Summary for Policymakers document, which has consistently been far more alarmist than the more technical parts of the report.
An asterisk in the column headed «D' indicates that formal detection and attribution studies were used, along with expert judgement, to assess the likelihood of a discernible human influence.
The 1995 report said: «the balance of the evidence suggests a discernible human influence on climate».
Let's assume these studies somehow greatly underestimated natural variability in the climate system, so that the «signal» of anthropogenic climate change has not yet emerged from the «noise» of natural variations (i.e., the above - cited «discernible human influence» had not been detected after all).
The famous conclusion of the IPCC, «The balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate», does not depend on any reconstruction for the past millennium.
This group of works complicates the face as more than mask or performative disguise, looking instead at the way these material constructions set in motion the mechanisms of recognition, the search for a discernible human form.
Ideas around chance — which Merriam - Webster defines as «something that happens unpredictably without discernible human intention or observable cause» — have driven a lot of art in the past century.
So by attempting to give him discernible human emotions and flaws, presumably for fear that he might otherwise come across like just another one - dimensional leather - clad ego, screenwriting duo Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick succeed only in turning Deadpool into a walking, (smack) talking contradiction.
... Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continental - average temperatures, temperature extremes, and wind patterns The ASA endorses the IPCC conclusions
This is despite the fact that in 1995 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said «the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.»
For example, in a 1999 paper based on a speech to Exxon's European affiliates, Flannery derided the second IPCC assessment that concluded in 1995 that the scientific evidence suggested «a discernible human influence on climate.»
In the 1995 second assessment report (SAR) the IPCC made the widely quoted statement that «The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate».

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If a Bible verse (or discovery) is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical or metaphorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.
If a Bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either; (i) taken out of context; (ii) symbolic, allegorical or otherwise means something other than it says; (iii) referring to another verse somewhere else that rectifies the error; (iv) a translation or copyist's error; (v) a mystery of God not discernible by we mere humans; or (vi) just plain magic.
If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is an ancient cultural anomaly; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.)
But such would have to be Arkes» outlook: if indeed there are fundamental principles of natural law and natural right, discernible to the human mind generally (as Arkes thinks), then policies or practices that effectively deny these can only be supported for the short term, or in the long term only by continuing fraud and force.
The «specious present» of human experience and the quantum events of physics are perhaps the best samples of actual occasions now discernible.
If a bible verse is detrimental to the cause, it is either: taken out of context; is allegorical; refers to another verse somewhere else; is a translation or copyist's error; means something other than what it actually says; Is a mystery of god or not discernible by humans; or is just plain magic.»
In broad terms it may be affirmed that the Human, having become aware of its uncompleted state, can not lend itself without reluctance, still less give itself with passion, to any course that may attract it unless there be some kind of discernible and definitive consummation to be looked for at the end, if only as a limit.
We have not yet taken sufficient account of the fact that this demand for the Absolute, not always easily discernible in the isolated human unit, is one of the impulses which grow and are intensified in the Noosphere.
Even when our enemies are so corrupt and evil that there is no discernible sign of good in any of them, we can at least recognize that they are fellow human beings and children of God — however much they have violated His commands — and love and pray for them on that basis alone.
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