Sentences with phrase «how human activity»

Or is he just pandering to the anti-science crowd who a laugh from even thinking about how human activity is changing the planet's climate and that perhaps something should be done about that?»

Features explanations of the meteorological variables of climate change, such as El Nino and the ozone layer Covers Earth's past warming and cooling cycles, and how human activity has affected this natural pattern Includes up to date discussions of the Bonn and Kyoto treaties Science Explorer: Weather and Climate: Interactive textbook (Hardcover) by Michael J. Padilla (Author) $ 21.30 · Reading level: Ages 9 - 12 · Hardcover · Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall; CD - Rom edition (January 2002) Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Paperback) by William James Burroughs (Author) $ 39.40 · Paperback: 316 pages · Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (October 29, 2005) Level - HS / College educated This volume provides an up - to - date presentation of climate change and its implications for society.

Various entities have been losing the global warming issue war for many years, succumbing to enviro - activist pressure to offer, at minimum, some kind of politically correct capitulation about how human activity is responsible for the warming.

Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems.

Planetary boundaries focus on our planet's natural systems and how human activity is changing them.

the ACS has on its website a Climate Science Tool Kit (http://www.acs.org/climatescience) that provides a broader, in - depth view of the underlying science of how human activity can bring about climate change.

The study adds to a growing body of bad news about how human activity is changing the planet's climate and how dire those changes will be in the future.

NYC - based naturalists Gabriel Willow and David Burglead lead a revealing exploration through the Raoul Wallenberg Forest in Riverdale Park and Wave Hill's Abrons Woodland to see firsthand how human activity, invasive plants, and other factors have shaped the local ecology.

It's a beautiful, but sobering reminder of how human activity is changing the world for other creatures.

This is a major issue during a time when climate change has shown us exactly how human activity has raised the temperature of the planet.

Okore is apparently deeply disturbed by how human activity is contributing to climate change, aggravating and interrupting the natural cycle of life.

Accompanied by smoothly textured acrylic illustrations, the book concludes with information about how human activity has damaged sea life and a call for young people to become stewards of the earth.

Its main focus is on how human activity including that of governments, TNCs and civic society groups as well as indigenous groups have a role to play in determining the Arctic Region's future.

There should also been some emphasis on how human activity relies on effective natural systems, and how human and physical processes interact to influence and change landscapes and environments.

«This is an example of how the human activity far from the poles can affect the life at thousands of kilometers far from our homes,» Barbosa told LiveScience.

New research shows how human activity deep underground combines with natural earthquakes far away to set off potent local temblors

The results published in the March 10, 2016, Nature, revises our understanding of how human activity contributes to global warming.

In this activity, you will be able to see the biodiversity levels of leaf litter in your neighborhood and how human activity has impacted these levels.

The soundscapes they analyzed reflect how human activity influences the occurrence of species such as the Okinawa Rail and Ruddy Kingfisher on the island.

In arguing against the possibility of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so, by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some view as to the way things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that context.

Because this authority is predicated on the need to achieve certain specifiable ends that some people may not wish to promote, and because often reasonable people can disagree about how human activities should be coordinated to attain those ends, we get queasy about enforcing this kind of authority by law.

It is a bizarre example of how human activities can change the weather.

James Balog, who founded Extreme Ice Survey that uses photography and videography to document the impact of climate change on glaciers — work that was the basis of his 2012 documentary «Chasing Ice» — said his work shows how human activities are transforming Earth's systems.

Together, these pieces provide an introduction to some of the important discoveries we have made recently about our oceans, underscore how human activities are changing them, and identify some of the challenges we must face if we are to continue to enjoy their vast but finite resources.

They were interested in finding out how human activities have changed the biogenic fluxes of these gases.

«It's a fascinating example of how human activities can drive evolution,» he added.

Citizen scientists around the UK are taking part in Earthworm Watch to help researchers investigate how human activities such as planting schemes, moving topsoil and adding fertilisers affect the ability of earthworms to create healthy soils.

Nitrogen pollution receives much less notice but is a dramatic example of how human activities now dominate many of the chemical, physical and biological processes that make this plant so amenable to human life.

The findings, they say, point to how human activities drive electricity use.

Understanding what happens in the vernal pools may improve future predictions for the dynamics of the watershed, and how human activities will affect other freshwater communities worldwide.

The ability to see Earth from space helps scientists to understand both how the planet works and how human activities are affecting the...

In addition to providing medical care for injured and orphaned wildlife with the intent of releasing them back to the wild, Project Wildlife is committed to educating others about how human activities impact wild animals.

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Douglas McCauley discussed new research on how human activities may be impacting the resilience of our oceans, during the April From Shore to Sea lecture.

It's titled «The Evolution and Future of Earth's Nitrogen Cycle» and builds on earlier work showing how human activities have become a dominant influence on the global cycling of a variety of substances.

Through text, diagrams, interactive stations, and videos, the exhibition shows how human activities are producing greenhouse gasses and contributing to climate change.

A group of 49 former NASA employees from Johnson Space Center have written a letter to NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, requesting that the space agency refrain from «unproven and unsubstantiated remarks» regarding how human activities are causing global climate change.

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On a day - to - day level, most meteorologists are still uncomfortable with discussing how human activities are shifting the odds of individual weather events.

«The Global Carbon Budget and the information presented here are intended for those interested in learning about the carbon cycle, and how human activities are changing it.

These are just a few examples of how human activities in the oceans are threatening the health of marine wildlife populations.

Given our current knowledge of how ecosystems operate and how human activities have altered ecosystem services, we need to develop strategies that restore these ecosystem services.

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This belief, that human activity ought to be directed towards promoting what John Locke called «the advantages and conveniences of life,» and that the human mind ought to concern itself exclusively with gathering together and putting in order the sort of knowledge this enterprise demanded — useful knowledge — is a moral belief, that is, it is a belief about how we ought to spend our lives.

Applying metaphor from creativity within the human psyche, he illustrated how each step along the route from the primal thought of being to the mundane activity of this world is an artificial leap from what came before.

«The economist... considers how the distribution of human activities affects the satisfaction of human wants, the wants being taken for granted» (MDS 103).

For centuries, men have worried about this problem: if God's grace is indeed His activity, coming before and present in every good human act, how can such acts be truly free and responsible acts on the part of the human agent?

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

The authors of Human Sexuality are right to criticize much of past thinking on sexuality for its «act orientation,» but we have no idea what or how sexual activity should be embodied in our character until we know how marriage should be shaped and sustained.

Previously we noted how creativity - esse may be said to provide a «depth» for the activities of humans and nature.

What I then propose to do is, briefly stated, to test saintliness by common sense, to use human standards to help us decide how far the religious life commends itself as an ideal kind of human activity.

... modalities, rules and guidelines as to how, and which, additional human - induced activities related to changes in greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks in the agricultural soils and the land - use change and forestry... shall be added or subtracted.