Sentences with phrase «growing human energy»

A great moment, reflecting the inevitability of diverse responses to climate risk on a variegated planet, came during a plenary panel focused on ways to satisfy fast - growing human energy needs while moving away from burning fossil fuels, which remain the world's dominant energy source.

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Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

Thanks to the mechanical devices which we increasingly charge with the burden not only of production but also of calculation, the quantity of unused human energy is growing at a disturbing rate both within us and around us; and this phenomenon will reach its climax in the near future, when nuclear forces have been harnessed to useful work.

Until human beings develop room - temperature superconductivity, cold fusion, and matter to energy / energy to matter technologies, there will NEVER be enough resources to support the needs of earth's EVER - growing human population.

The workbook includes 13 chapters of practical guidelines, including information on winegrape growing, soil management, pest management, ecosystems management, water and energy conservation, materials handling and human resources.

This will ensure that you are providing yourself with the nutrients and energy required to grow a tiny human.

Not only does it help grow and heal muscles (we are going a human after all), but it provides moms - to - be with energy, all while stabilizing blood sugars and helping reduce the risk of pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes.

Can humans grow enough food, produce enough energy and still preserve some of the last refuges of other species — both plant and animal — on the planet?

By the same token, evidence of coastal adaptation can also mark human activity and a strategy for meeting the brain's growing energy needs.

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study finds.

Without accelerated decoupling, protected areas can't resist growing human demand for food and energy, and the elephants and gorillas of Virunga may face doom.

Explains Ross Grossman, human resources vice president, «We've focused a great deal of energy on retaining a true biotech culture --[stressing] innovation and great science — as we've grown and matured as a company.

We do need to feed and clothe the growing population of the world, and to that end we must manage water, land, energy, and human resources.

The inescapable fact is that an ever - growing human population requires prodigious amounts of energy and food.

The news of the increase in U.S. human - caused GHG emissions comes at a critical moment in the global battle against climate change, particularly after the International Energy Agency announced last month that global carbon emissions related to energy consumption have stabilized for the first time in a growing ecEnergy Agency announced last month that global carbon emissions related to energy consumption have stabilized for the first time in a growing ecenergy consumption have stabilized for the first time in a growing economy.

«We can take human brown fat precursor cells, grow them in Petri dishes and then culture them to become energy - dissipating cells,» says Dr. Tseng.

Humans get about 30 percent more energy from cooked food than raw food, an important distinction that allowed early humans to fuel a growing Humans get about 30 percent more energy from cooked food than raw food, an important distinction that allowed early humans to fuel a growing humans to fuel a growing brain.

A growing brain requires nutrient - rich, energy - packed food, so rather than foraging for fruits and vegetables, our human ancestors began eating meat.

Bigger plants growing more quickly could provide more energy, lessening human reliance on fossil fuels.

An Athlete uses more energy than the average human being and an athlete's body will require more nutrients in order to recover & grow.

Although without any current pets, he grew with two family cats in NYC, and is still in loving memory of a rather feisty Pomeranian, who enjoyed barking and herding humans as much as expending her ample energy hiking up gorges in upstate New York.

That's one reason I wrote a Science Times article this week describing three books speaking from the middle on the twin challenges of supplying energy to a fast - growing global population and limiting risks from human - driven climate change.

The new directive is the culmination of an extensive interagency review process undertaken in response to rapid changes taking place in the Arctic, the principal drivers of which are climate change, increasing human presence in the region, and the growing demand for Arctic energy deposits and other natural resources.

Should I consider natural - growing plants, for which there is probably little data, or cultivated plants, which recieve extra energy from their human tenders?

The meteorologist and energy entrepreneur Paul Douglas is keeping up his valuable effort to depoliticize the science pointing to a growing human influence on the climate.

-- Clarifying what this small group of countries can do to help forge a new global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December, — Working out specific partnerships to propel advances toward «transformational technologies» that could supply abundant energy to a growing human population without overheating the planet.

The small batch of rich and fast - growing countries that dominate the global economy — and the human influence on the global atmosphere — are convening again under an effort initiated by the United States and aimed at creating partnerships and programs on climate and energy.

It may take another president, or two, before America's energy quest gets into the necessary gear, perhaps driven by a confluence of a new spike in oil prices and rising anger among veterans wounded protecting fuel convoys in Afghanistan and building evidence pointing to a growing, and harmful, human influence on the climate system.

You then take that ethanol and burn it into an internal combustion engine that is maybe 20 - 30 % efficient, and you end up with a tremendous amount of wasted energy... And you've used up farmland that could instead have grown food for human consumption, increasing food prices by reducing supply.

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study published in the Proceedings... Read more →

Using a cross-country data set, we show that human population growth rates are negatively related to per - capita energy consumption, with zero growth occurring at ∼ 13 kW, suggesting that the global human population will stop growing only if individuals have access to this amount of power.

Read on to go beyond the statistics and get to the human story behind Virginians» growing resistance to the Governor's and Dominion's energy policies.

Actually, the whole global warming problem could be summarized as being a global over-population problem — it is, after all, the exploding human population that is driving the growing energy needs, causing the negative environmental impacts, and in the process, also causing a shortage of fresh water.

The opening paragraph in The Age article is «Evidence for climate change has grown stronger and it is now «virtually certain» that human greenhouse gas emissions trap energy that warms the planet, according to a leaked draft of the next major IPCC report»

«The energy sector is the largest and fastest growing contributor to climate change globally — 35 % of all human GHG emissions come from this sector,» the call says.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

Since two billion humans still depend on wood and dung to cook their supper, Smil notes that «much more energy will be needed during the coming generations to extend decent life to the majority of a still growing global population.»

In a recent article, we call this anthropogenic drought, which is water stress caused or intensified by human activities, including increased demand, outdated water management, climate change from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, growing energy and food production, intensive irrigation, diminished supplies, and land use change.

That warning comes weeks after the United Nations released its latest report concluding with «very high confidence» that growing extremes in weather are being influenced by human activity, thus creating new risks for energy systems.

Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.

It allows humans to grow more food on less land, thanks to energy - heavy inputs such as fertilizer and tractors.

Transitioning to a world powered by zero - carbon energy sources will require energy technologies that are power dense and capable of scaling to many tens of terawatts to power a growing human economy.

But according to Linus Blomqvist, Director of Research at the Breakthrough Institute, just the opposite may be true: a world with cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant energy might improve the wellbeing of the growing human population and, at the same time, leave more land for natural habitats and wildlife.

«I am growing weary of the variety of emotional, misleading, and policy - useless statements like «most warming since the 1950s is human caused» or «97 % of climate scientists agree humans are contributing to warming», neither of which leads to the conclusion we need to substantially increase energy prices and freeze and starve more poor people to death for the greater good.

In fact, if humankind was really as dumb as the fans of DPS would have us believe, we wouldn't be around today to hear their doomsaying, because Homo sapiens would have been wiped out during vastly larger environmental swings (in and out of ice ages, for example) in our past, than those expected as a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels to produce the energy that powers our world — a world in which the human life expectancy, perhaps the best measure of our level of «dumbness» or «smartness» — has more than doubled over the last century and continues to grow ever longer.

While human population grew 5.4 times since 1850, per capita energy consumption exploded at a rate of 8.5 times.

They are non-value added endeavors, while burning fossil fuels provides the energy needed to maintain and grow the world economy in order to ensure humans the high quality of life and long life expectancy we (in the developed world) now enjoy.

They only exist because of those people, and will only grow as long as they harness the energy of those humans in the right way.