Sentences with phrase «early land clearing»

The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis (108) posits that mid-Holocene increases in CO2 and CH4 resulted from early land clearing and other agricultural practices and that these unprecedented interglacial trends in atmospheric composition set global climate on a trajectory toward warmer conditions long before human use of fossil fuels (108, 109).

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Early in our conversation, Collins made it clear that startups shouldn't treat landing pages as a once - in - a-while pursuit.

As the game resumed, despite an early effort by Agbonlahor, it soon became clear that the Eagles had landed, with Bolasie forcing an acrobatic save from Guzan, Jerome hitting the bar with his shot two yards from goal and Ledley almost scoring from the centre of the box.

Earlier today, Governor Paterson was joined by Stockbridge - Munsee President Kim Vele and other stakeholders in Madison County to sign the Stockbridge - Munsee Land Claim Settlement Agreement, which cleared the way for this compact and settled a longstanding land claim impacting thousands of acres in Central New YLand Claim Settlement Agreement, which cleared the way for this compact and settled a longstanding land claim impacting thousands of acres in Central New Yland claim impacting thousands of acres in Central New York.

They say the cooked bones provide the first clear evidence of salmon fishing among the earliest Americans, Paleoindians, who crossed from Siberia into Alaska over the Bering Land Bridge more than 13,000 years ago.

Fishing is relatively stationary compared to the hunting of land mammals, which provides clear indications that settlements appeared in Scandinavia much earlier than researchers previously believed,» says Adam Boethius.

Much of the land was cleared for agriculture — mostly orchards and dairy and wheat farms — in the early 1800s.

Perhaps the weakness of Coco will lie in its predictable storyline, as it becomes clear from early in the Land of the Dead sequence where things will be going for the rest of the plot, if you know how these stories always go.

This year, there's basically a 20 film - long laundry list to choose from, though we'd give «Going Clear,» «Best of Enemies,» «The Wolfpack» and «Cartel Land» the very early upper hand.

b) A big change from ~ 2005 is that people couldn't believe there were enough humans early to clear enough land or do enough rice paddies to have noticeable effects on CO2 and CH4.

Earlier this month, Clinton was heckled by climate campaigners at a New Hampshire town hall - style meeting for a clear (and in my opinion, condescending) response in which she refused to oppose oil drilling on public lands.

More than 10 000 years ago, agricultural societies accelerated these early defaunation and land clearing processes, ultimately replacing them with even more novel ecological transformations, including the culture of domesticated species, widespread soil tillage, sustained societal growth, and ever - increasing scales of material exchange, leading to globally significant transformation of the terrestrial biosphere by at least 3000 years before the present time.

An early 2008 study led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University that was published in Science used a global agricultural model to show that when including the land clearing in the tropics, expanding U.S. biofuel production increased annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically instead of reducing them, as more narrowly based studies claimed.

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.

3) Regardless of what was going on earlier with the Black Death, evidence has been piling up for a 50M + - person dieoff (not the 5 - 10M of earlier guesses) in the Americas, with massive reforestration that covered previously - cleared land in Central America and the Amazon region.