The forum presents insights into current scientific findings in defining
a global impact of human activities and debates the far - reaching implications of the Anthropocene hypothesis for science and society alike.
And it may reflect more changes than we realize: recent writing on the Anthropocene period that arguably began during the Industrial Revolution highlights the significant
global impact of human activities on Earth's ecosystems.
Not exact matches
The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects
of measured changes to our
global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance
human activities that have been found to have an
impact.»
While scientists and policy experts debate the
impacts of global warming, Earth's soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all
human activities combined.
Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale
of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when
human activity alters
global climate and ecosystems).
A new
global analysis
of forest habitat loss and wildlife extinction risk published July 19 in the journal Nature shows that species most at risk live in areas just beginning to see the
impacts of human activities such as hunting, mining, logging and ranching.
Today we understand the
impact of human activities on
global mean temperature very well; however, high -
impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic
impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.
William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the
activities of the
human race first began to have a significant
global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent
of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming
activities of our early agrarian ancestors.
The effects
of human activity have long been cited as a primary cause
of global climate change, but new research from NASA has revealed that our use
of technology also appears to be having an
impact not just on the planet, but on Earth's near - space environment as well.
Remember, a good persuasive essay on
global warming should focus on the
impact of human activities on the environment.
Current and likely future
impacts of global warming on ecosystems and
human activities are also considered, including biodiversity, system buffering and resilience, and regional inequality and vulnerability.
Quoting directly Climate change as a result
of human activities, or anthropogenic
global warming, is now generally accepted as reality and includes a wide range
of climatic processes and
impacts in the
global system that are affected by
human activities.
«Considering these... major and still growing
impacts of human activities on Earth and atmosphere, and at all, including
global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role
of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.»
Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confid
Global climate change risks are high to very high with
global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confid
global mean temperature increase
of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread
impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to
global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confid
global and regional food security, and the combination
of high temperature and humidity compromising normal
human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts
of the year (high confidence).
They argue that the joining
of the two hemispheres is an unambiguous event after which the
impacts of human activity became
global and set Earth on a new trajectory.
human impact —
of course not????? Why not,
human impact is an independent variable, There is literally no logic to say because A (
global warming) can be caused by B, C, D or E, that an independent variable, G,
human activity, can not then cause the same effect.
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global warming is not significantly affected by
human activity but governments expend resources and disrupt social order and economies to reduce
human impact but make no provisions for dealing with the effects
of warming.
Our Planetary Boundaries research identifies that there are also other processes critical to the functioning
of the Earth System that are so
impacted by
human activities that they, too, demand management at the
global level.
Resolved, That the House
of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition
of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects
of measured changes to our
global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance
human activities that have been found to have an
impact.
«[The] House
of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition
of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects
of measured changes to our
global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance
human activities that have been found to have an
impact.»
Jerry specializes in understanding the
impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry
of ecological systems from local to
global scales, using a combination
of field studies and simulation modeling.
I noted (as I have previously in this blog) the large number
of states that are either divided on or hostile about claims
of human - caused
global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds
of collective
activity focused on counteracting the adverse
impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.
Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document
of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health
of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and
impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management
of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization
of significant adverse effects on
human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation
of the
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
Global Programme
of Action for the Protection
of the Marine Environment from Land - based
Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation
of the
Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
Global Programme
of Action for the Protection
of the Marine Environment from Land - based
Activities, which highlighted the relevance
of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment
of a
global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human heal
global partnership on marine litter, Taking note
of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference
of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the
impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year
of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious
impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to
human health; 1.
«
Global Warming Expedition to prove Antarctic Ice is Melting Trapped by Ice --» Expedition leader Chris Turney: One
of the purposes
of the expedition was to determine the extent to which
human activity and pollution has directly
impacted on this remote region
of Antarctica.»»
... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention
of several
of the most important aspects
of the potential relationships between hurricanes and
global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by
human activities and hurricane characteristics and
impacts; and 3) does not take full account
of the significance
of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing
impacts as compared to increasing societal vulnerability.
Changes in the frequency
of extreme events coinciding with
global warming have already been observed, and there is increasing evidence that some
of these changes are caused by the
impacts of human activities on the climate.
While I acknowledge that the levels
of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are increasing, that climate change is real, that
human activity plays a role in these changes and that these changes are
impacting our state, I simply disagree that RGGI is an effective mechanism for addressing
global warming.
«The CCR - II report correctly explains that most
of the reports on
global warming and its
impacts on sea - level rise, ice melts, glacial retreats,
impact on crop production, extreme weather events, rainfall changes, etc. have not properly considered factors such as physical
impacts of human activities, natural variability in climate, lopsided models used in the prediction
of production estimates, etc..
I would probably generally state it as «
human CO2
activity has a measurable warming
impact on
global average temperature that can be readily discerned from the background
of natural climate change and other
human effects that may cause cooling, and this warming
impact will be, in general, neutral in
impact for humanity and the biosphere».
To extend the reach
of and scope
of our World Weather Attribution project we are engaging in a new project with CDKN: Raising Risk Awareness — Using climate science to inform post disaster Policy & practice in developing countries Today we understand the
impact of human activities on
global mean temperature very well; however, high -
impact -LSB-...]
«This limits our ability to untangle the extent to which
human activities versus the natural background have altered the
impacts of particles on the
global radiation budget and climate, and thus hampers assessments
of future climate change,» researchers wrote.
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Today we understand the
impact of human activities on
global mean temperature very well; however, high -
impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic
impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.
Füssel, Hans - Martin (2010):
Global maps
of climate change
impacts on the favourability for
human habitation and economic
activity.
Most importantly, nothing in the content
of these stolen emails has any
impact on our overall understanding that
human activities are driving dangerous levels
of global warming.
That is the central finding
of the Ecological Footprint (EF), a widely cited
global sustainability indicator used by the United Nations and major NGOs around the world to estimate the
impact of human activity on the biosphere.
A wide range
of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear
impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects
of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.
Human activities are exerting pressure on the environment with consequences such as
global climate change, disruption
of the hydrological cycle and
impacts on water catchments.
The final resolution says that Congress should support «economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects
of measured changes to our
global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance
human activities that have been found to have an
impact.»
The panel concludes there is very high confidence that the warming is due to
human activities, which are likely to have been at least five times greater than the
impact of solar irradiance changes on
global warming.
Considering... [the] major and still growing
impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including
global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role
of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.