Sentences with phrase «human activities like»

Human activities like fossil fuel burning, landfills, and agriculture have altered the geologic record, but defining a boundary for that era is difficult, scientists say Read More

We know the increase is due to human activities like burning fossil fuels because we can analyze the chemical evidence for that.

Approximately 40 percent of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources (e.g., wetlands and termites), and about 60 percent comes from human activities like cattle breeding, rice agriculture, fossil fuel exploitation, landfills and biomass burning.

Or the theory that human activities like burning fossil fuels and deforestation didn't produce the 40 % increase in atmospheric CO2, it's all down to insects?

The planet is warming because of manmade carbon pollution and other greenhouse gases emitted from human activities like burning fossil fuels.

But those fires are becoming more commonplace due to climate change and other human activities like farming.

When we talk about climate change, we're talking about the scientifically observable — and increasingly severe — changes in global climate patterns that became apparent in the mid-to-late twentieth century and can be attributed to the rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, in particular) produced by human activities like burning fossil fuels.

But when done carelessly, human activities like farming can deplete the soil's carbon and render the land incapable of supporting life.

About 40 percent of methane is emitted into the atmosphere by natural sources like wetlands and termites, with the rest coming from human activities like cattle breeding, rice growing, fossil fuel exploitation, landfills and biomass burning.

A study in January of this year co-authored by Steadman showed that the first humans to arrive in the area depleted small species like bats; this latest research shows that other species were lost to human activities like hunting and human - ignited wildfires.

A first - of - its - kind report shows that human activities like farming and logging are ruining natural habitats at an alarming rate.

The year's incredible heat serves as a stark reminder of how much the Earth's temperature has risen due to the steady buildup of heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from human activities like power generation, transportation and forest clearing.

Human activities like drilling or pumping out groundwater can also trigger sinkholes.

«That makes it difficult to separate shark behavioral changes due to scuba diving from behavioral changes caused by other human activities like fishing.»

That molecule — released by the gigaton from human activities like fossil fuel burning and clearing forests — causes the bulk of global warming.

This stability in methane levels had led scientists to believe that emissions of the gas from natural sources like livestock and wetlands, as well as from human activities like coal and gas production, were balanced by the rate of destruction of methane in the atmosphere.

Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

Suffice it to say that it reached its culmination, so far as scriptural witness is concerned, in the affirmation that in Christ the Word (the self - expressive creative Activity which is divine in nature) «became flesh and dwelt among us,» while in formal theological statement the climax was the declaration that in him there is a genuine union of divine Activity («true God») and human activity like our own («true human being»).

In landscapes that are highly fragmented from human activity like development and agriculture, the end could come as early as 2050, the researchers report today in Nature Climate Change.

Human activity like footsteps, car and truck traffic, and sounds from aircraft also cause arches to move.

Not exact matches

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

Like many pleasurable activities that enhance and celebrate the human condition, it is best done in moderation and responsibly, not unlike drinking alcohol.

Like Weber, Berger adopts an interpretive approach to social life, emphasizing the meaningful character of human activity.

Some, like St. Augustine, have argued that many apparently antireligious activities — including drunkenness, carousing, promiscuous sex, harsh athletic training, committed political activism, incessant material consumption, and drug addiction — actually represent deeply driven human religious longings and searching, which happen to be misdirected quests for the true religious good.

Regarding the first: I do not care to defend here Hartshorne's psychicalism against the criticism that it commits the pathetic fallacy (or «fallacy of mislocation,» as Shalom contends) by attributing to nature human - like feelings, actions, etc. 3 But I do wish to argue that he is innocent of trying to move from (a human - like) nature («event - cells,» etc.) to human beings and characteristically human activities.

Human activities — cognitive activities such as claims and contentions in particular — are exactly like that.

Much human activity that turns out to be important proceeds otherwise, like the work of the laboratory scientist.

Surely we should talk in terms of intensity of divine Activity and fullness of human response, not in terms of «above» and «below,» «in» and «out,» «entrance,» and the like — these are mythological terms, and for our own day they are outworn rather than significantly evocative mythological terms.

The divine nature, like the divine activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling of human life has been made possible.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

God's rule, like the activity of a peasant during an agricultural season, requires cooperation between human beings and the Creator, similar to that between the farmer and the soil.

But like any other important human activity, faith has to achieve a measure of conceptual clarity if it is to understand and express itself, and part of that process is the development of abstract concepts like Trinity, incarnation and substance.

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.

Prayer, in the Christian sense, presupposes a creation in which human activities, like every other event or occurrence, have consequences and make a difference.

Judgments of these kinds, and the catechetical activities that go with them, are normative: They imply an understanding of what human flourishing and human corruption are like.

And like most human activities, the ability to do it well improves with practice.

Like any other human activity, art is not an absolute end in itself, but is ordered to and ennobled by the ultimate end of man.»

He believes that the popularly «conservative» refusal to relate global warming to human activity is like tobacco company executives» denial of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

Like all intellectual activity it compares, abstracts, relates; by these means it seeks coherence in the manifoldness of human experience, unified understanding of the objects or the Other in that experience.

Watching the latest, entirely hapless, efforts of Theresa May to seem like a normal human person by attempting to participate in that most regrettable of group activities, a Mexican wave, your columnist was struck by how apt a metaphor it was for the ineptitude shown by Liverpool FC in their transfer strategy so far this summer.

Sure humans like their activities to end in benefit for themselves and their kin.

Aligning with like - minded institutions will facilitate the expansion of activities that protect, promote and support breastfeeding and the appropriate use of human milk.

We can win and lose in good spirits, keeping in mind that the activity was for enjoyment and learning, and that our competitor is human and, like us, wanted to win.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

Recordings of neural activity in the frontal cortex of the rats showed that, like humans with schizophrenia, these rats also lacked the low frequency burst of brain activity (delta wave) during the timing task.

«Nest protection is widely used for other raptors, including many hawks and falcons, to quarantine them from human disturbance, even from activities that we don't think would be all that disturbing, like camping, hiking or boating.

A byproduct of the discovery of RNAi was the finding that although cells in the human body only contain one strand of RNA, they do have micro-RNA — tiny sections of RNA that can act a little like double - stranded RNA and also silence the activity of certain genes.

Back in the early 1950s, when I was a graduate student at Harvard, the general assumption was that language, like all other human activities, is just a collection of learned behaviors developed through the same methods used to train animals — by reinforcement.

Beyond human activity, tropical sea surface temperatures further back in time are affected by volcanic eruptions, changes in the intensity of sunlight and natural events like El Niño.