Sentences with phrase «human activities at»

For example this: «The reason why climate policy is an issue because greenhouse gases are increasing in the atmosphere due to human activities at a very rapid rate.

But these days, with many scientists are focused on tracking greenhouse gases produced by human activities at national, regional and local scales, the current monitoring network doesn't measure up.

The study found that emissions from human activities at least doubled the risk of such an event.

Artificial illumination is necessary for most human activities at night.

Latinos see climate change as a consequence of human activity at higher % than other Americans.

Ozone - depleting substances are emitted by human activity at the planet's surface and eventually travel to the stratosphere, where there the chlorine atoms and certain other constituent parts break apart the three oxygen atoms that make up an ozone molecule.

Not exact matches

At the very minimum, we should be getting at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity) a week, according to the Department of Health and Human ServiceAt the very minimum, we should be getting at least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity) a week, according to the Department of Health and Human Serviceat least 150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity) a week, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

At his Senate confirmation hearing, he stated that that «science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity in some manner impacts that change.

But the wildfires that scorched vast swaths of the US this year can scarcely be described as natural disasters, since human activities exacerbated them at every step.

(This increased economic activity sometimes comes at the expense of human and environmental health, but that's a different discussion).

Around 97 million sharks died because of human activity in 2010, according to research by Boris Worm, a professor and marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

These tools are most useful for traders because they allow us to look at price activity in an objective way (without the human error that is associated with other types of forecasts).

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

Many careful observers believe that human economic activity is already at an unsustainable level in many parts of the world and even globally, as indicated by global warming.

The homosexual person may initially recoil at the perspective presented here, but that is because he easily confuses human nature with what «feels natural» or what «comes naturally» - in his case, the powerful desire to engage in sexual activity with another male.

It was in this ardent zone of growth and universal recasting that all that makes man what he is today was discovered — or at least must have been rediscovered, for even those things which had long been known elsewhere achieved their definitive human value only when they were incorporated into the system of European ideas and activities.

«13 The God of the Bible encounters human being in the midst of worldly activities, at the strongest point.

Although all human activity, labour and consumption no less than prayer or friendship, aim ultimately at the one good of serving God, different activities are more suited for different specks or aspects.

The philosophical study of any human activity aims at exhibiting the «logic» of that activity, that is, at uncovering the principles relevant to its understanding and criticism.

At its base, Pannenberg's compatibility (of divine all - determination with human responsibility) stems from the unique nature of a determining activity that has its locus in the future.

At that moment, if the church had been logical and free of homophobia, it would have re-examined the value of homosexual activity as an expression of human love and companionship.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different in size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.

Gross was involved in the project, which helped «implement activities in support of the rule of law and human rights, political competition, and consensus building, and to strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba,» according to a statement from DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard at the time of Gross» arrest.

What is really being said is that divine activity and human activity are at work — always and everywhere, to be sure, but that in Jesus Christ these two «come to a point», so that the latter can properly answer to and serve for the former.

In dealing with the relation of human to divine activity Sölle has written, «At this point process theology is very helpful in understanding the concept of liberation.»

The divine aim to call forth civilizations whose meanings and purposes are at one with God's purposes - for - them and whose histories accord with the divine activity succeeds, therefore, only where individual human beings, citizens of those societies, act and believe in ways transparent to the ways of God.

It is a long way from such an ideal of political activity to the actualities in which it is carried on; but it is essential to our human attempt to live together to see that the «game of politics» is not merely a necessary evil but that it has at its best a link with legitimate good.

It is rather the next stage in the evolutionary advance on the planet Earth of overwhelming importance to us humans at this time, but perhaps only one among myriads given God's creative activity on other worlds.

The central mark of this order, according to Ellul, is technique, «the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency (for a given stage of human development) in every field of human activity.»

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different In size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.15

where he stands at man's door and knocks, in all revelation there is a divine part and there is a human part, an event or an activity and an interpretation or a response.

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!

Without ceasing to be itself; Charity spreads like an ascending force, like a common essence at the heart of all forms of human activity, whose diversity is finally synthesized in the rich totality of a single operation.

Confined within the geometrically restricted surface of the globe, which is steadily reduced as their own radius of activity increases, the human particles do not merely multiply in numbers at an increasing rate, but through contact with one another automatically develop around themselves an ever denser tangle of economic and social relationships.

But the same ontological totality is not necessarily a manifestation of Spirit since Spirit presupposes at least some minimal form of self - consciousness within the individual entity and thus is confined to the human and interhuman spheres of existence and activity.

For example, if the coordinated form of human activity involved is more complex than driving on a particular side of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.

This demands a fresh and compelling apologetic which demonstrates to this scientifically sophisticated yet spiritually conflicted age a new intellectual, moral and social synthesis which once again places God at the heart of human thinking, planning and activity.

[The earlier passage is here inserted:] «The essential principle is this: That human psycho - physical activity must exceed a certain intensity for any waking consciousness at all to occur, and that during the waking state any particular specification of the said activity (whether spontaneous or due to stimulation), which is capable of occasioning a particular specification of consciousness, must exceed in its turn a certain further degree of intensity for the consciousness actually to arise...

For me, this means investing at least three times as much caring time and leadership (ministerial and lay) in person - building, human enrichment activities (including short - term growth - oriented counseling) as in helping those with deep deficiency needs through longer - term pastoral counseling.

This idea depends on developments in general systems theory, which views «all of nature and all of human activity as a hierarchically arranged structure of levels of interlocked subset systems in which the process of any particular subset system affects and is affected by other subset systems at its own level, as well as below or above it.»

1) Protective Antioxidants: Blueberries rank # 1 in antioxidant activity, according to researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Center (HNRCA) in a study that compared blueberries to 40 other fresh fruits and vegetables.

When I was an undergraduate at Georgetown University a young historian named Carroll Quigley offered a course called Development of Civilization, a one - year survey of human activity from roughly 10,000 B.C. to date (the date then being the Truman Administration).

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends at least 150 minutes (that's 2 1/2 hours) of moderate - intensity aerobic activity each week for healthy women who are not already highly active or doing vigorous - intensity activity.

Chemicals with estrogenic activity «have been reported to have potential adverse health effects in mammals, including humans, especially in fetal and infant states,» says Dr. George Bittner, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin who has served on many National Institutes of Health panels.

«As with all activities parents do with kids, it's how attentive parents are to their kids» responses that is so critical,» says Betty Hart, professor emeritus of human development at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result of global warming — a steady increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.

The 2000 Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) recommend at least 60 minutes of activity per day for kids — ideally, done with their parents.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

We are today at the mercy of the nature and it is human activity that has led to this worse climatic conditions we now experience,» Aregbesola said.

Freakonomics: the first book to look at the combination of markets, economics and human behaviour in particular activities, from drug dealing, to the flaws of rewarding teachers on pupils» performance.