Sentences with phrase «human contribution»

The relevant discussion is how fast, and what are the consequences of human contributions as a catalyst?

Nor does it minimize human contribution (endorsing < 50 %).

It will be interesting to see if this will be adopted by the courts as this would enable judges to spend more time on complex cases where human contribution and consideration are needed.

And as to the potential human contribution to that, there's a great scientific dispute about that very issue.

Human contribution so far to sea level rise does not seem particularly significant, given the early 20th century rate of sea level rise is about the same as the current rate.

The total variance of the long - term temperature time series must increase by a new human contribution.

Regarding your ice core data, I'm certainly not arguing that the current CO2 levels don't have a dominant human contribution!

They all minimize human contribution, thus they are clearly part of the 3 %.

The total human contribution is estimated to be a little larger than warming by CO2 alone.

In a business world where human contributions will come primarily through innovation — a process in which failure is a given — those motivated to avoid mistakes or failures will not be successful.

«unlike in the case of tobacco's health risks, there are innumerable and enormous holes in the case (not for human contribution to global warming but) for manmade global warming dangerous enough to justify spending trillions of dollars reinventing the world's energy system to mitigate it, particularly when competing use of those trillions might bring far greater benefit.

«We hope that this work will encourage tabloid newspapers to reflect further on the accuracy of their reporting on human contributions to climate change, particularly given their high readership in the UK publics.

The climate system is highly non-linear8 and relatively little is known about the effect on temperature changes resulting from human contributions to the changing three - dimensional distributions of ozone and aerosols, either or both of which may have been partially responsible for the observed discrepancy between surface and lower to mid-tropospheric temperature changes.

It also contains a case study into the record hot Australian summer of 2012/13 and record hot calendar year of 2013, concluding that the record hot summer «was about five times as likely as a result of human - induced influence on cliimate» and that the record hot calendar «would have been virtually impossible without human contributions of heat - trapping gases.»

Compared to previous HadEX / CMIP3 - based results, which identified human contributions to the observed warming of extreme temperatures on global and regional scales, the current results provide better agreement with observations, particularly for the intensification of warm extremes.

First, while the early 20th century warming was likely predominantly naturally - caused (i.e. low volcanic activity and increasing solar activity), there was also a significant human contribution as greenhouse gas emissions began to ramp up.

To blame chance happenings that are amplified by human contribution towards the climate on God or sinners is to commit a serious sin of taking on the role of God.

For years, many environmental groups and experts on the growing human contribution to the planet's heat - trapping greenhouse effect have sought to turn carbon dioxide into a commodity by giving it a rising price.

The IPCC used computer models to simulate climate change and discovered that only models that included human contributions to global warming portrayed an accurate representation of today's climate.

The Eemian, without any significant human contribution to CO2, ended up being 5 - 6C warmer than it is now.

In chapter one of your book, you put a reference (# 33) to a website page of Environment Canada regarding human contribution to CO2, that does not seem to exist.

IPCC Reports have a section on atmospheric aerosols, but only consider human contributions.

It may seem that to emphasize the pervasive operation of the Holy Spirit, as well as to stress the Spirit's focal action in the life of Jesus and its consequences, will in the end reduce men and women to mere automatons used by God with no respect for their freedom, their dignity, and their own responsible decisions, without any personal or social human contribution to the process.

«It is very hard to attribute a specific human contribution to a change in precipitation, although we do have more confidence in the changes in heat,» Karl said.

We now find evidence for a modern human contribution to the Neanderthal genome.

«The overall human contribution was very low, with what we estimate is less than 1 human cell per 100,000 pig cells,» and no human cells in the chimeras» brains, biologist Jun Wu of the Salk Institute of Biological Studies, lead author of the Cell paper, said in an interview.

The analysis assumes that the climate - driven human contribution to sea level rise is spread evenly across global oceans, discounting localized effects.

«The exact percentage of human contribution remains uncertain, but the overall relationship — an increase in fuel aridity, fire days, and fire extent — is clear and significant,» Anchukaitis said.

What kinds of international agreements could effectively limit risks related to human - driven global warming, either by blunting human contributions to climate change or building resilience to hazards related to changing conditions?

Todd Stern, the new United States special envoy on climate change, clearly understands the «bathtub effect» that experts say makes the rising human contribution to the atmosphere's greenhouse effect such a thorny challenge.

2) Ask yourself this question: Does this paper minimise human contribution relative to the IPCC position?