Sentences with phrase «human impact of these events»

«The devastating human impact of these events underscores that, nine years into the conflict, measures to protect Afghan civilians effectively and to minimize the impact of the conflict on basic human rights are more urgent than ever,» UNAMA's director of human rights Georgette Gagnon said.

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«It» has an impact, but its impact is deterministic, it had no «choice» in the matter, it was just executing along determistically (Determinism is the philosophical idea that every event or state of affairs, including every human decision and action, is the inevitable and necessary consequence of antecedent states of affairs.

The events in the nerves leading to the brain succeeded the events in the eye and were in turn followed by the events in the brain and finally by the impact upon the conscious human occasion of experience.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

I wonder if the current financial crisis could have the effect of burying another crucial event which could have an equally huge impact on our society, albeit in other ways: the coming before the House of Commons on Wednesday of the contentious and potentially unpopular Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill for its final stages.

OVERVIEW: Another alternative is that the Anthropocene begins when people first become aware of global human impacts, an event often tied to the first comprehensive look at the planet, provided first by satellites after Sputnik.

Mapping anthropogenic events from the beginning of the Holocene to today would create a timeline of human impacts on Earth.

But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

Connecting extreme weather to climate change distracts from the need to protect society from high - impact weather events which will continue to happen irrespective of human - induced climate change, say experts.

There maybe a simple objective way of assessing whether human impacts qualify as new era or epoch: By measuring the volume of crust material disturbance caused by humans in comparison to recognized geological events, such as the K - T boundary impact.

To mitigate the impact of future smoke events, the team developed a model framework which could help governments and policymakers in Southeast Asia identify, in almost real time, the fires with the highest potential to cause damage to human health.

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

Such is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human history.

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.

11 A study published in 1985 in the journal Nature calculated the rate of impacts to humans as.0055 per year, or one event every 180 years.

Kopp noted recent findings have revealed the possibility of even more serious impacts including «ice sheet melt in Greenland and Antarctica to compound extremes, where events occurring simultaneously or in rapid sequence can amplify the risks to both human and natural systems.»

Now the scientific community is faced with a new question: asking not whether humans affect extreme weather events, but assuming they do and instead questioning the extent of their impact.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

To attribute any specific extreme weather event — such as the downpours that caused flooding in Pakistan or Australia, for example — requires running such computer models thousands of times to detect any possible human impact amidst all the natural influences on a given day's weather.

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Atmospheric heatwaves can have significant impacts on human health31 and attribution studies have shown that these events, and atmospheric heatwaves in general, have become much more likely as a result of anthropogenic warming32.

Events during the 2010 - 2012 time period had significant economic impact and were responsible for human casualties in many areas of the world.

Where «Your Inner Fish» goes back millions of years to look at the evolutionary links between human anatomy and other animals around the world, «The Universe Within» goes back billions of years and extends out to the universe to trace the impact of cosmic events on the human body.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

Developed for the Commonwealth Marine Science Event 2018, this publication is an initiative by UK scientists and international partners, led by Plymouth Marine Laboratory, providing evidence - based science for policy making on the impacts of increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases on the ocean and human systems.

Changes in atmospheric chemistry produced naturally and by humans, behavior of abrupt climate change events in the atmosphere; multiple controls on climate and the unique role of human impact.

A statistician, risk analyst and Wall Street veteran who spent years trading derivatives, Taleb has learned that humans constantly downplay the impact of random events.

At the event, the Jim and Joy McKendrick, a husband and wife team of horse trainers who sought Cesar's help spoke from the heart about the great impact Cesar had on their canine and human family members by training their aggressive Bulldog Gunny and Bastian, a Rottweiler who's reportedly «very excitable.»

For example, moves, trips to the veterinarian, introduction of a new human or animal family member, loss of a family member or other anxiety - causing events should be carefully managed to minimize their impact on dogs with OCD.

In addition, APPA cosponsors «Pet Night on Capitol Hill,» an industry event which showcases the impact of the human - animal bond's impact in America.

Organized in collaboration with the Princeton University Center for Human Values and the Princeton Animal Welfare Society, the event brought together academics and advocates to discuss current and future potentially high - impact research on topics of import to effective animal advocacy.

If the Houston region wants to minimize the human impacts of future events like Hurricane Harvey, we need to think about flooding differently.

The Coming to America tour emphasizes techniques used to create sculptures, prominent historical figures and events of the early 20th century, ways that the human figure communicates feelings and ideas through gesture and the impact of the artist's immigrant experience on their artwork.

While exploring the human impact of that specific historical event, the film also examines the nature of truth and its representation through art.

30 years after its original broadcast, the artist envisions the impact of such an event on the human body, and its social and cultural consequences.

I began to focus on the environmental impact of these events and the interaction between human destruction of the wetlands and the development of desirable beachfront communities.

There are huge problems with getting unbiased measures of extreme events — especially events linked to actual impacts on humans and nature.

Calving from the floating termini of outlet glaciers and ice shelves is just the beginning of an interesting chain of events that can subsequently have important impacts on human life and property.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

They argue that the joining of the two hemispheres is an unambiguous event after which the impacts of human activity became global and set Earth on a new trajectory.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

It seems safe to say that there is no scientific basis for asserting a climate change signal (human caused or otherwise) underlying the decades - long trend of escalting economic impacts related to extreme events.

I hope that while placing the Tunguska event into perpspective we also come to realize that our false sense of security regarding impacts like this and worse is largely perceptual based on our limited understanding of our own history and its woefully human timescale, and I hope we realize that impacts might not be the rare events we've come to consider them as being, and that they may not arrive singularly and only on rare occasions, but as swarms of potentially devastating event producers, as our planet enters into regions of our Milky Way where clouds of potentially planet - disrupting objects are a genuine concern and are something we can and should do something about... and soon.

Yesterday the World Meteorological Organisation published its Annual Statement on the Climate, finding that «2013 once again demonstrated the dramatic impact of droughts, heat waves, floods and tropical cyclones on people and property in all parts of the planet» and that «many of the extreme events of 2013 were consistent with what we would expect as a result of human - induced climate change.»

The rate of change from human causes is far faster than any past event short of an asteroid impact.

Short - term adaptation and mitigation includes predicting extreme events, while long - term actions include modelling the impact of air quality or ozone layer on human health.

So far - reaching is the impact of modern humans that esteemed palaeoclimatologist Wally Broecker has suggested that we have not entered a new geological epoch, a relatively minor event on the geologic time scale, but a new era — the Anthropozoic — on a par in Earth history with the development of multicellular life.

Doocy, S., A. Daniels, S. Murray, and T. D. Kirsch, 2013: The human impact of floods: A historical review of events 1980 - 2009 and systematic literature review.

Changes in the frequency of extreme events coinciding with global warming have already been observed, and there is increasing evidence that some of these changes are caused by the impacts of human activities on the climate.