Sentences with phrase «from human industrial activity»

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The extension of Calvinism to all spheres of human activity was extremely important to a world emerging from an agrarian mediaeval economy into a commercial industrial era.

The greatest human influence on the sulfur cycle comes from industrial activity, mainly the combustion of coal and oil and the smelting of sulfur - bearing metallic ores.

More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists that includes a NASA researcher has proven that air pollution from industrial activities arrived to the planet's southern pole long before any human.

Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

The lake and adjacent bog record some 8,000 years of human activity in the vicinity, from the advent of farming millennia ago to the industrial revolution, and remains largely unchanged throughout its history But in the last 50 years, «everything changes,» Swindles says.

«The burgeoning human population needs energy and food — unfortunately, nitrogen pollution is an unintended consequence and not even the open ocean is immune from our daily industrial activities,» said Karl.

These are just a few obvious examples, but because the future Fox News pundit was talking about climate change let's consider something that is indisputable: the measured rise of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is numerically consistent with that predicted from the output of human industrial activity.

Man - made include human - generated changes to the water table, including dam construction, and industrial activities involving the injection or removal of fluids from the subsurface.

When aerosols from human activities such as industrial plant and vehicle emissions are added to the system, the energy budget has to deal with the increase.

We know with certainty that the increase in CO2 concentrations since the industrial revolution is caused by human activities because the isotopes of carbon show that it comes from fossil fuel burning and the clearing of forests.

The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution (from around 280 parts per million [ppm] in preindustrial times to 401 ppm in 2015), primarily due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land - use.

Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long - lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.

3) In order to assert human causation, I would think the data would have to show that, for example, Rocky Mountain National Park had continued unabated to the present day the cooling trend established from approximately 1750 through 1850, while the Houston Ship Channel area exhibited the warming trend since the onset of industrial activity.

Since the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide from human activities has created a greenhouse effect of 1.66 W per square metre worldwide.

These chemicals are released by a wide variety of human activity in the industrial world, from driving cars to treating sewage.

OVER-EMPHASIS ON INDUSTRIAL CO2 emissions as the dominant «forcing agent» on global temperatures & weather dynamics obscures regional impacts on weather from human industrial and agricultural activities (RINDUSTRIAL CO2 emissions as the dominant «forcing agent» on global temperatures & weather dynamics obscures regional impacts on weather from human industrial and agricultural activities (Rindustrial and agricultural activities (R. Pielke).

But the level of CO2 has been drastically altered by human activity, rising from 280ppm at the start of the industrial revolution to 400ppm today.

Major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities include power generation (about 25 per cent of all emissions), transport, industrial activities, deforestation and agriculture.

In other words, the EF defines carbon uptake in forests as the single mechanism for offsetting human emissions of greenhouse gases from industrial activity to the atmosphere.

Since the Industrial Revolution, emissions from human activities of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have driven the earth's climate system dangerously outside of its normal range.

Human activities since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (around 1750) have produced a 40 % increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), from 280 ppm in 1750 to 406 ppm in early 2017.

«Combined, the Earth's land and ocean sinks absorb about half of all carbon dioxide emissions from human activities,» said Paul Fraser of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

«There is no evidence, neither empirical nor theoretical, that carbon dioxide emissions from industrial and other human activities can have any effect on global climate.

The scientific consensus is that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human agricultural and industrial activity are the principal cause of this global warming [1]--[3] and that such emissions must be severely curtailed to prevent further anthropogenic disruption of the climate system [4].