Sentences with phrase «for first time in human history»

For the first time in human history, the rich really were a different breed.

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

Researchers for the first time have calculated the highest tolerable «wet - bulb» temperature and found that this temperature could be exceeded for the first time in human history in future climate scenarios if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

«For the first time in human history, we're actually at a place, technologically speaking, where we can make this transition,» actor / activist Mark Ruffalo told Mother Jones in 2014.

(In 2013, atmospheric CO2 levels surpassed 400 million parts per million for the first time in human history.)

To demonstrate that millions will starve: take projections of extremes from broken climate models, and put them in wheat crop models, and then assume we take no adaptive measures for the first time in human history.

«This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history», Ms Figueres stated at a press conference in Brussels.

Posted by Olive Heffernan on behalf on Paty Romero Lankao For the first time in human history, in this year half of the world's population lives in urban regions.

The Guardian: On 10 May 2013, the concentration of climate - warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed the milestone level of 400 parts per million for the first time in human history.

The Rising Stakes of Escalating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2013 In the spring of 2013, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii reported that the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere had exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time in human history; indeed, for the first time in millions of years.

Now, the Keeling Curve has reached 400 ppm for the first time in human history, with a new measure of 400.03 ppm.

[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.

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

«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.

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.

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

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.

(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.

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.

The first paragraph of the article in the Independent read on June 27 at 15:25 GMT when I took a zotero snapshot — «Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.»

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.

For the first time in human history, more than half the world's people now live in cities.

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.

For the first time in human history, more than half of the population is living in cities.

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.

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.

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.»

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

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

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

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.

«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.

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.

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

For the first time in human history we are dealing with a conflict between the virtual and the real and both exist in a tandem interchange in cyberspace.

No; what makes one's pulse to bound when he remembers his own home under foreign skies, is never the rich man, nor the learned man, nor the distinguished man of any sort who - illustrates its history, for in all these petty products almost every country may favorably, at all events tediously, compete with our own; but it is all simply the abstract manhood itself of the country, man himself unqualified by convention, the man to whom all these conventional men have been simply introductory, the man who — let me say it — for the first time in human history finding himself in his own right the peer of every other man, spontaneously aspires and attains to a far freer and profounder culture of his nature than has ever yet illustrated humanity...

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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

For the first time in history, human beings had true mobility.

And to say that Biblical teachings are invalid because there are other similar beliefs that have older known written sources invalidates the Biblical teachings also should take into consideration that for certain Biblical believers that all those truths whether they are known to have been placed in the Bible first or known thus far to have been placed elsewhere that they believe that they all come via deity who at the beginning of human history on this world dispensed those truths to humanity and that to those who believe in the biblical teachings believe that through time they are more complete than those of other ancient beliefs due to God restoring those truths through revelations given to later prophets like say Moses and other later Old and New Testament prophets and apostles.

For the first time in history, at the invitation of the United Nations, we gather as Heads of State and Government to recognize the significance of social development and human well - being for all to give to these goals the highest priority both now and into the twenty - first centuFor the first time in history, at the invitation of the United Nations, we gather as Heads of State and Government to recognize the significance of social development and human well - being for all to give to these goals the highest priority both now and into the twenty - first centufor all to give to these goals the highest priority both now and into the twenty - first century.

What this means, I believe, is that for the first time in the history of the human race, we see the necessity of thinking responsibly and deeply about everything that is.

A few years ago, demographers announced that for the first time in recorded history the majority of the human race lives in cities.

She is the Mystical Body of Christ; at the same time a visible society instituted with hierarchical organs, and a spiritual community; the Church on earth, the pilgrim People of God here below, and the Church filled with heavenly blessings; the germ and the first fruits of the Kingdom of God, through which the work and the sufferings of Redemption are continued throughout human history, and which looks for its perfect accomplishment beyond time in glory.

For the first time in history, the father and the doctor and the health - insurance actuary can point a finger at her as the person who allowed an inconvenient human being to come into the world.

For the first time in history, governments accepted a set of human rights standards for the entire worFor the first time in history, governments accepted a set of human rights standards for the entire worfor the entire world.

First, the simple fact that this structure of divine - human unity emerged at a time and place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity of a significant portion of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.

For the first time in the history of creation, the life support systems of the Planet Earth are being destroyed by human activities... Throughout history humans have caused locally significant damage to the environment, but never before have human numbers and actions combined to threaten the integrity of the entire planet.