Sentences with phrase «driven by human influence»

Additionally, the researchers» detailed field data make clear that the land sinking around Washington is not primarily driven by human influence, such as groundwater withdrawals, but instead is a long - term geological process that will continue unabated for tens of thousands of years, independent from human land use or climate change.

All told, about 20 % of the distribution of domesticated species across the Amazon seemed to be driven by human influences, while 30 % was likely due to environmental factors such as soil composition.

Climate change is occurring, driven by human influences and dangerous.

Not exact matches

Begin with the thought that human development appears these days driven entirely by scientific and technological advances (knowledge) as influencing and influenced by economic, political, and social uses of that knowledge (praxis).

Nonetheless, the affirmation will not be evaded that the biblical influence has been, and is, of a more potent sort; for it strongly grips human emotions, the driving force in achievement, and sets them aflame with a supreme ideal which by its very loftiness thrills and mocks us.

Humans are emotionally driven and (for most of us, most of the time), our moral compass is malleable and heavily influenced by circumstances, survival value, and our perceived «emotional self - interest».

Variation in the human immune system is largely driven by non-heritable influences.

This instinct is key to human survival: No one food contains all the nutrients we need, so we're driven to eat a wide variety (even fish are influenced by variety and eat more if they have more choices).

But, despite having some suitably epic moments that deliver on a pure spectacle level, there are times driven by the CGI influenced action binge that seem ridiculously tedious as they fail to properly trick the human eye into believing.

Learning decisions centered on each student's individual needs, influenced by the data gleaned through technology in combination with the expertise and human touch of a teacher are — together — what will drive true education transformation.

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

It may take another president, or two, before America's energy quest gets into the necessary gear, perhaps driven by a confluence of a new spike in oil prices and rising anger among veterans wounded protecting fuel convoys in Afghanistan and building evidence pointing to a growing, and harmful, human influence on the climate system.

But efforts to tease out the impact of human - driven global warming in the region are complicated by the big influence around the Bering Sea of natural variations in ocean conditions, including the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

The increasing severity of Australian heat waves are part of a long - term global trend towards more heat waves and hot weather in many regions, a trend that is very likely influenced by human - driven climate change.

The most recent report of the International Panel on Climate Change says it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of this warming which is driven by the build up of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land use changes.

Furthermore, human - caused warming is superimposed on a naturally variable climate system, driven by various dynamic processes and events that influence the temperatures we experience.

Attribution is supported by the detection of human influence on the cold - season temperatures that drive the snowpack reductions.

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»

They then looked at whether these changes could be explained as natural or as a consequence of human influence, and pinned a proportion of the blame on natural variability − some of it driven by long - term changes in the tropics.

Although global warming is driven by human behaviour — and in particular the prodigal burning of fossil fuels at an ever - accelerating rate to dump ever - greater quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — it is also influenced by natural climate rhythms.