Sentences with phrase «from human influences»

Kevin Trenberth, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research at Boulder, Colorado, in the US, says world weather is a combination of natural variability plus global warming from human influences: «The weather experienced around the world in the past year... shows us the sort of thing that will become routine in a decade or so.

While the NCA authors coyly admit that the region's «climate trends include contributions from both human influences (chiefly heat - trapping gas emissions) and natural climate variability» they are quick to add «[t] hey are also consistent with expected changes due to human activities.»

Then again, you didn't have to be a IPCC climate scientist to figure out that global warming / climate change from human influences was not an existential threat to civilization.

«We show that at the present - day warming of 0.85 °C about 18 % of the moderate daily precipitation extremes over land are attributable to the observed temperature increase since pre-industrial times, which in turn primarily results from human influence,» the research team said.

A station too close to a parking lot would be expected to read warmer than a station situated over grass far from any human influence other natural obstructions.

Anthropogenic: resulting from a human influence Increase of GH gases through human sources is causing an enhanced.

How about creating a local CO2 dome in a remote area, far from any human influence, by transporting flue gases from power plants and releasing it there.

«Although these events played out over hundreds or thousands of years, the magnitude of the changes, in carbon dioxide levels for example, are similar to those of the last 150 years resulting from human influence on the carbon cycle.

Of course climatic fluctuations over the vast majority of geologic time are not from human influence.

She apparently continues to ignore this reality and point to data segments that are too short to separate the natural variation from the human influenced trend signal.

The sensor would be a guaranteed 1/4 mile from any human influence.

For $ 200 - 400 million you could buy 1 square mile plots and be 1/2 mile away guaranteed from any human influence.

Not exact matches

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

Research from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published in April concluded that social influence can encourage a particular behavior through direct or indirect persuasion.

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

Griffiths suggests that the secular cultural field may emerge in part from the influence of the capitalist market economy, which results in «market - states» and the identification of human beings as primarily «consumers» or «choosers.»

From social media profile pics to letters to the editor, blog posts, fundraisers, film screenings, Human Trafficking 101 trainings, etc. identify what you can do in your sphere of influence to raise awareness, agitate and train your community.

June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.

Yet for us this epistemological dimension of the redemption is not from the supposedly «incurably» dualistic nature of human knowing but from stubbornly dualistic theories of human knowing which over the millennia of their influence have whittled away wonder.

It follows from the foregoing analysis that if the human particles are to become truly personalized under the creative influence of union it is not enough for them to be joined together no matter how.

A culture, even one of long duration, is modifiable by human effort under the impact of a new ideology — witness the radical transformation of China under Communist influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.

For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.

The highest cause may be (1) in every sense or aspect «uncaused,» in no sense or aspect the effect of anything else; or it may be (2) in some aspects uncaused, and in others causally influenced, but its manner of both acting and receiving influences may be the highest conceivable, hence absolutely «perfect,» although even so its whole being may not in every sense be perfect, because the influences as coming from other causes, say human beings, may be less admirable than they might be; or the supreme cause may be (3) in no sense or aspect uncaused, independent of other powers, hence in no way wholly exempt from the imperfections of the latter...

And, although the poem from Pilgrim's Regress surely betrays the influence of philosophical idealism on Lewis's thought, it also shows certain Christian assumptions about what it means to be human.

The power of growth comes from God rather than human influence.

But there is nothing egalitarian about a moral vision that flows from understanding human dignity in terms of transcendence - seeking projects; and libertarians, under the brutalizing influence of Ayn Rand, seem to have become increasingly honest about the inegalitarian consequences of their agenda.

This situation is witnessed to by the fact that the only metaphysical issue where there is a virtual consensus among mainstream twentieth century Catholic thinkers, apart from the reality of human subjectivity mentioned above, is the claim that the discoveries of modern science should not have a significant influence upon metaphysics.

Artist Wassily Kandinsky argues that «the psychological power of color calls forth a vibration from the soul... which can influence the entire human body as a physical organism.»

Again, the Bible tells of the visits to Abraham and others by supernatural beings known as angels; however, they were really messengers from outer space who were trying to influence the course of human affairs according to God's interplanetary directives.

Thus, superimposed on the twofold tightening action of what I have called the geometrical and mental curvature of the human earth — superimposed yet emanating from them — we have a third and final unifying influence brought to bear in regulating the movements of the Noosphere, that of a destiny that is supremely attractive, the same for all at the same time.

This is a sad fact of which we are all aware, and because of this separation of head and heart we are bound to conclude that, however social necessity and logic may impel it from behind, the human mass will only become thoroughly unified under the influence of some form of affective energy which will place the human particles in the happy position of being unable to love and fulfill themselves individually except by contributing in some degree to the love and fulfillment of all; to the extent, that is to say, that all are equal and integral parts of a single universe that is vitally converging.

This is that, under the combined influence of two irresistible forces of planetary dimensions (the geographical curve of the Earth, by which we are physically compressed, and the psychic curve of Thought, which draws us closer together), the power of reflection of the human mass, which means its degree of humanization, far from having come to a stop, is entering a critical period of intensification and renewed growth.

A Guardian editorial in May described the decline in numbers and influence of Christianity and affirms that Christianity gave us «the idea that people have some rights just because they are human, and entirely irrespective of merit, [it] certainly isn't derived from observation of the world.»

Far from the Church being an imposition on the secular community, her presence and influence ensures that society remains fully human and functional.

The most powerful influence in human life is neither the environment in which we happen to be brought up, the genes we were bequeathed from our parents at birth, nor all the slings and arrows of fate, no matter how tragic and harrowing their effects may be.

In spite of this reciprocal influence, however, it is clear that Whitehead's fundamental categories are generalizations from human experience (PR 172).

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

From such influences came an established doctrine, the orthodoxy of a large part of the Old Testament, that all human suffering presupposes corresponding sin.

On page 104 Carpenter summarizes from A Christian Natural Theology the four sources of influence on a human occasion as if they were four sources of aims.

What is needed today, I believe, is the radical attempt to work Out a theological pattern for Christian faith which is in the main influenced by process - philosophy, while at the same time use is made of what we have been learning from the existentialist's insistence on engagement and decision, the understanding of history as involving genuine participation and social context, and the psychologist's awareness of the depths of human emotional, conational, and rational experience.

Each occasion is influenced by many factors, only one of which is the group of preceding occasions of human experience that conjointly with successor occasions constitutes the human soul from birth to death.

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.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

In this phase Whitehead proceeds from the fact that, opposed to the «concrete universe,» or to the world which embraces — howsoever — both nature and the «whole round world of human affairs,» there stands a multiplicity of theories of the world, which reciprocally influence each other and the world or are coined in these relations.

We have a democracy, we have influence, we have a better understanding of human rights, slavery is far from a societal necessity — let's abolish it.

We are learning about women in history, both individual women whose contributions have been ignored or forgotten, and the masses of women in all cultures and periods of history who have had tremendous influence on the evolution of human society, from the invention of agriculture to the «keeping of the faith.»

The totality in Marxism is achieved by society's reconstitution of Christianity; in Teilhard the same alienation of the secular from the sacred is overcome, and the same totality is erected — but by extending the influence of Christianity into all sciences, social movements (including communism) and other agencies of human perfection.

I turn to the Bible, not for scientific instruction, but for spiritual illumination, to share in the most influential development of religious ideas in man's history, to watch divine deeds that have changed human destiny, to sit at the feet of great prophets, to learn from the insights of the seers, to find guidance in distinguishing right from wrong, and above all to come under the saving influence of Jesus Christ.

Yes, I'll happily admit he was a calming influence in the squad, led by example, and our younger players would've learnt alot from him as human beings, he even steadied the ship and brought a calming influence in a time of great turmoil.

In other words, there is one collective human civilisation which is an accumulation of contributions from a series of distinct but intertwined geo - cultural domains, themselves influenced by different sub-cultures.