Sentences with phrase «first time in human history»

CO2 Levels Pass 400 Parts Per Million for First Time in Human History.

You have to go back to the fundamentals — for the first time in human history, we decided to trust the people to govern themselves.

«This is the first time in human history that we're no longer stuck with the genes we had at birth,» says outspoken biohacker Dr. Josiah Zayner.

Right now, for the first time in human history, world currencies are free - floating, meaning they're not backed by anything tangible.

Thanks to this new technology it is the first time in human history we have had the opportunity to make this choice as individuals.

For the first time in human history, people are being encouraged to think for themselves, and to challenge any beliefs and way of life imposed upon them.

The importance of the mass media lies in the fact that for the first time in human history the means exist for speedy total communication.

• «For the first time in human history all people who have [sibi habent] the benefits of culture are convinced that these benefits ought to be and actually can be extended to everyone.

For the first time in human history we have, in the twentieth century, been able to construct a fairly clear picture of the whole globe in our mind.

Some would argue today that, with thousands of Karen Quinlans lying near and far, we have for the first time in human history made it possible for people to outlive themselves.

For the first time in human history, divorce has replaced death as the most common endpoint of marriage.

Thanks largely to medical advances ensuring that, for the first time in human history, most children get to grow up, our numbers have quadrupled over the past century to seven billion.

«It's the first time in human history that we have the ability to design instruments to detect life within our own solar system's backyard in the next 20 years,» astrobiologist and planetary scientist

«For the first time in human history, we can do more than just gaze at the stars,» declared philanthropist and high - tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner on April 12.

In May 2013, the CO2 concentration in Earth's atmosphere surpassed a milestone of 400 ppm for the first time in human history, a level that many scientists consider dangerous territory in terms of its impact on Earth's climate.

In May, 2013, daily carbon dioxide measurements at Mauna Loa exceeded 400 parts per million — for the first time in human history.

In 2016, CO2 concentrations also permanently passed the 400 parts per million mark for the first time in human history; during preindustrial times, that concentration was 280 ppm.

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has permanently passed 400 ppm for the first time in human history.

For the first time in human history we're getting a close look at it.

April will be the first time in human history where levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide were higher than 400 parts per million for an entire month, one scientist who monitors the levels said.

It recently surpassed a reading of 400 ppm in the atmosphere for the first time in human history.

As Swarthmore College psychologist Barry Schwartz wrote in a 2000 article in American Psychologist, «I think it is only a slight exaggeration to say that for the first time in human history, in the contemporary United States large numbers of people can live exactly the kind of lives they want, unconstrained by material, economic, or cultural limitations.»

For the first time in human history, chronic disease has surpassed infectious disease, and these types of illnesses — like chronic heart problems, autoimmune diseases, and cancer — often go under - the - radar for years.

The subsequent industrial revolution enabled the skyrocketing of agricultural production, which provided a continuous (over) supply of calories for every society member for the first time in human history.

On the other hand, you've got the select camp of scientists, journalists, some nutritionists, etc that believe that humans are still adapted to eating more of a «Paleo» style of diet, which greatly limits grains of all types, since grains historically never comprised more than a tiny percentage of the human diet until just the most recent agricultural age, which allowed mass production of grains for the first time in human history.

We are fortunate enough to live at the first time in human history [when] such individualized teaching and learning is not restricted to a tiny wealthy elite but can be distributed far more widely, if not universally.»

For the first time in human history, we have the tools available to provide access to powerful learning experiences to every person on the planet.

If Amazon will take these necessary steps, then the company will help to achieve full and equal access to books for blind people for the first time in human history.

For the first time in human history there will be significantly more people living in urban spaces than in rural areas.

The Arctic sea ice just reached its lowest level in thousands of years and in a few years you will be able to sail a boat to the North Pole for the first time in human history.

Goddard opens his first article with the breathtaking announcement «The headlines last week brought us terrifying news: The North Pole will be ice - free this summer «for the first time in human history... Or so the experts at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado predict.

(05/13/2013) Even as concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human history last week, a new study in Nature Climate Change warns that thousands of the world's common species will suffer grave habitat loss under climate change.

As the Trump administration charges forward with its war on science by canceling a «crucial» carbon monitoring system at NASA, scientists and climate experts are sounding alarms over atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) that just surpassed a «troubling» threshold for the first time in human history.

For the first time in human history it will be done as a scientific, technical, engineering problem.

For the first time in human history, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are expected to pass 400 parts per million across much of the Northern Hemisphere in May, according to scientists who study data from the Mauna Loa Observatory, the world's longest - running CO2 monitoring station.

«Temperatures have been rising for the last 150 years, this decade the warmest ever recorded, sea ice has been retreating, you can take a supertanker from the Atlantic to the Pacific for the first time in human history.

This common denominator requires that, for the first time in human history, we have to all come together.

[21][35] Research shows that the Arctic may become ice free for the first time in human history within a few years or by 2040.