Sentences with phrase «global human cases»

The Malawi Project, launched by WVS and Mission Rabies with the UK charity Dogs Trust, aims to make a real difference to the lives of people and dogs in a country where a third of all global human cases of rabies occur and where someone dies of the disease every 30 minutes.

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Benedict Rogers from CSW said: «We hope she will raise these cases and urge China that if it wants to be a global superpower, which it clearly is in the running for, it needs to uphold human rights for its own people.»

After the first human case of SARS was recorded in 2002 in Guangdong Province in southern China, a global epidemic of the disease sickened more than 8,000 people and killed 774 in 2003.

In the case of the Human Cell Atlas, a global effort to identify the body's 30 trillion cells, the Initiative is providing funding to help scientists carry out their cell mapping projects, but it also has hired a team to develop a data coordination platform so that the atlas of participants can collaborate and pool data more efficiently.

Climate deniers used the leak to press their case but the new IPCC report closes the case on a human cause for global warming

According to global models, the Protocol will have prevented 2 million cases of skin cancer annually by 2030, averted damage to human eyes and immune systems, and protected wildlife and agriculture, according to UNEP.

The wave — more than a month after the last reported case, a 73 - year - old man from Abu Dhabi who died in Munich on 26 March — has sparked fresh worries that the virus might start spreading between humans and trigger a global outbreak.

The case framed global warming as a human rights violation that the Dutch government must do more to prevent.

Democrats are more likely in such cases to attribute global warming to human activity.

The study is based on a complementary methods approach consisting of a quantitative analysis of bibliometric and publication data, a global survey of 1,200 researchers and three case studies including in - depth interviews with key individuals involved in data collection, analysis and deposition in the fields of soil science, human genetics and digital humanities.

«In case you thought brain anatomy is a solved problem, take it from us — it isn't,» says Van Wedeen, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Charlestown and a principal investigator for the Human Connectome Project (HCP), a US - government - funded global consortium that published the brain map.

Malaria is the most significant parasitic disease affecting humans, with 212 million cases and 429,000 deaths in 20151, and resistance to existing drugs endangers the global malaria elimination campaign.

Included: The Quaternary period Evidence for climate change and advantages / disadvantages Human / natural causes of climate change Potential causes of climate change: extreme weather and sea level rise Global circulation of the atmosphere El Nino / La Nina Tropical storms, formation and distribution Causes of droughts / location Extreme weather case study caused by El Nino - The Big Dry, Australia

In summary, Global Education Magazine aims to disseminate creative, innovative and transversal educational experiences and ideas from the formal ambit, non formal and informal, to break with the existing positivist and technocratic paradigms of the past that reduce our students in passive citizens and a-critical consumers, because we have as educational horizon the freedom and the emancipation of human beings in any case and corner of the world.

Just wanted to let you know that I have filed a class action lawsuit on global warming in the International Criminal Court in the Hague, against all current leaders on all nations on Earth, in behalf of all future generations not born yet, forever and ever, as long as this human species shall last...... and for US$ 1 billion in damages, to be donated if case is accepted and won to groups fighting global warming now!

The incident is better known as «Climategate» among the community fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases or insisting that the collection of messages and files undermines the case for human - driven global warming.

A valuable short paper that has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters (subscription required) makes a strong case against presenting any argument about human - driven global warming that's based on short - term trends (a decade or so).

Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on climate change.

As has been the case for years, climate science points to measurably rising impacts from human - driven global warming later this century.

In case you missed President Obama's first long discussion of human - driven global warming in recent memory, which came near the end of his news conference on Wednesday, here's the brunt of it, as summarized on Twitter by Will Oremus of Slate (found via Stephen Lacey):

In case anyone wants to have a look back at my early work, here are links that will lead you to a few vintage pieces on humans and climate: Endless Summer: Living With the Greenhouse Effect, Discover Magazine cover story, October 1988; «Let's Be Sensible on Global Warming,» Christian Science Monitor, June 30, 1992; «The Big Thaw» (a look at Switzerland's retreating glaciers), Conde Nast Traveler, 1993.

It seems somewhat disingenuous for the book's authors to continue assert that there is an ongoing debate regarding whether global warming is caused by humans, and then use pre-1998 references to make this case.

In the first few minutes, Gilder explained that «Arthur Robinson was the man who first alerted me to the possible flaws in the case for human - caused global warming» and then introduced chemist / veternarian Noah to speak.

In fact, according to a Skeptical Science review of studies on human and natural contributions to global warming: «Most studies showed that recent natural contributions have been in the cooling direction, thereby masking part of the human contribution and in some cases causing it to exceed 100 % of the total warming.»

So just in case anyone wasn't sure, a major study of almost 12,000 scientific papers on global warming between 1991 and 2011 finds less than one per cent disagree that humans are the main cause.

While the report made a strong case for human - caused climate change, most media coverage focused on the question of whether there has been a «pause» in global warming.

We're not offering a «counter-claim» about the science, because our position is that even the concrete, incontrovertible, unassailable fact of human influence on global warming and climate change does not, by itself, make a case for action.

In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.

After these threats are identified for each resource, then the relative risk from natural - and human - caused climate change (estimated from the global climate model projections, but also the historical, paleo - record and worst case sequences of events) can be compared with other risks in order to adopt the optimal mitigation / adaptation strategy.

In that case the human component of global warming may be somewhat overestimated.

In this case, the strongest and best available data supports the proposition that humans are driving global climate disruption, that the disruptions to the Earth's climate will continue to worsen this century, and the sooner we address the root causes of climate disruption, the better.

However, for regional downscaling (and global) models to add value (beyond what is available to the impacts community via the historical, recent paleorecord and a worst case sequence of days), they must be able to skillfully predict changes in regional weather statistics in response to human climate forcings.

And when the hands of Big Government play a part in molding the consensus, or in this case Big Global Government, the peer - to - peer review network and the undermedia will play the unavoidable role of getting to the truth — a truth desperately needed when crafting policy that will affect every living human and their offspring.

Is there a case against human - caused global warming in the peer - reviewed literature - Part 3 (Jim Powell)

12, 1987) The Ocean in Human Affairs (Paragon House, 1989) The Universe and Its Origin: From Ancient Myths to Present Reality and Future Fantasy (Paragon House, 1990) Global Climate Change: Human and Natural Influences (Paragon House, 1989) The Greenhouse Debate Continued (ICS Press, 1992) The Scientific Case Against the Global Climate Treaty (SEPP, 1997) Hot Talk, Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate, (The Independent Institute, 1997)

In any case, when the 5th Assessment Report of Working Group 1 was published in September 2013, much of the media attention focused on one particular section in the Summary for Policymakers which claimed that it was «extremely likely» that human activity was responsible for most of the global warming since the 1950s.

I didn't claim that they'd made claims «that are obviously at variance with mainstream science» — I claimed that for every loony right wing quote you could find (in your case focussing on anti-science) I could find quotes from leading leading leftys that are equally loony on other topics — I specifically mentioned global trade, because Brown and Milne have made some particularly silly and non-mainstream comments about things like the US FTA, trade with Japan (in a whaling context) or trade with China (in a human rights context).

Such is the larger case with the idea that human activity drives global warming.

It is entirely possible that humans are not causing global warming, in which case this computer model exercise is really just a game.

In any case, I am not a scientist, and I think the problem of how fast global warming will manifest is still unsettled, partly because we do not know how humans will react or adapt, if we do.

Media Legal Defence Initiative, the Open Society Justice Initiative, Index on Censorship, English PEN, Global Witness and Human Rights Watch jointly intervened in the case to express serious concern about the costs of defending libel and privacy claims in the UK.

Nothing in the e-mails undermines the scientific case that global warming is real — or that human activities are almost certainly the cause.»

The wide, in some cases global scope of effects of climate engineering technologies as well as their deep implications for human society make CE technologies prone to analysis and evaluation by social sciences as well as humanities.

As has been the case for recent COPs, commentators about achievements at COP - 17 are split on whether these negotiations accomplished some important positive steps toward an eventual meaningful global solution to climate change or whether Durban must be understood as another tragic international failure to come up with an adequate solution to the immense threat of human - induced warming.

In both cases, the scientists have found evidence that the most intense hurricanes are already occurring more often as a result of human - caused global warming.

Even the case «Marcott et al» did not prove that the current high temperature could be unprecedented, on basis of which the recent global warming can be regarded as well as natural as human - made.

What they do — and have done at length in one form since 2009 — is dispute in massive detail how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has failed to make the case that what little global warming we've seen over the last 150 years is primarily driven by human activity.

The UN's official panel on climate change has hit back at sceptics» claims that the case for human influence on global warming has been exaggerated.

The main differences today, with respect to extinction potentials, are that anthropogenic climate change is much more rapid and moving global climate outside the bounds living species evolved in, and the global human population, and the pressures people place on other species, are orders of magnitude higher than was the case at the last glacialinterglacial transition (Barnosky et al., 2012).

Since it was published four years ago in a United Nations report, hundreds of environmentalists, scientists and policy makers have used the hockey stick in presentations and brochures to make the case that human activity in the industrial era is causing dangerous global warming.