Sentences with phrase «human industry»

For the last several years I have been making imagery that depicts our world after the collapse of human industry.

• No change in the planet's energy equation explains the observed climate results nearly as well as the increase in atmospheric CO2 caused by human industry.

Currently, the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas for human industry is one of the major causes.

We are trying to redefine human industry for generations to come under a new, beneficial design strategy.

We are therefore experiencing a probably unprecedented rise in CO2 before temperature rise, and this rise is clearly coming from human industry.

The dwindling animal populations rebounded as human industry receded, and the periodic fluctuation of wolf and moose numbers began anew, continuing to this day.

Goff's piece, a monumental sculpture made entirely out of cardboard, titled Miles To Empty, is a visual critique of the decline in human industry.

In my opinion, the question is not whether human industry increases atmospheric CO2 or not (it does), but whether this will increase the earth's temperature significantly, knowing that fossil fuels reserves are limited and our infatuation with them will end in about 50 years.

The mercury and sulfur cycle in the ocean, illustrating the four steps by which mercury moves from human industry into the food chain that leads to seabirds.

Edward Burtynsky's large - format colour photographs document the ramifications of human industry on the natural world in a perversely beautiful manner.

Monuments and building foundations in situ reveal consecutive layers of original labor and millenia of constructions, destructions, and restorations: here, present and past human industry coexist.

We believe this is the path to scaling up certification, which we think will continue to change the potential of human industry well beyond eco-efficiency and even «sustainability» to beneficial human footprints.

They only consider human influence since pre-industrial times (approximately 1750 A.D.), but don't explain or account for natural variability because their objective is to link human industry with warming.

Neither of us has a history of environmental activism, but both of us are moved by the compelling scientific evidence emerging from multiple, independent lines of study implicating human industry as the driver of worldwide climate change.

The idea behind it is simple: gases accumulating in the atmosphere as by - products of human industry and agriculture — carbon dioxide, mostly, but also methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbons — let in the sun's warming rays but don't let excess heat escape.

He wrote a well - reviewed book called «The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming,» in which he presents measured skepticism of climate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducing them.

As a member of the jury for the Frieze Artist Award, I'm very excited to offer this platform for Pattison to build upon his thought - provoking and increasingly relevant work, exploring cultures of «trending» in the digital economy and the implications for human industry, creativity and control.»

Since greenhouse gases are chiefly the result of human industry and agriculture, it is not an exaggeration to say that civilization itself is the ultimate cause of global warming.

Washington, DC — Human industry and ingenuity has done more to diversify and distribute minerals on Earth than any development since the rise of oxygen over 2.2 billion years ago, experts say in a paper published today.

The idea is often attributed to Italian photochemist Giacomo Ciamician who, just over a century ago, predicted that in the future «the photochemical processes that hitherto have been the guarded secret of the plants... will have been mastered by human industry».

In this podcast Mary will discuss the» human industry» of education, explain how positive grass root movements impact policies and explore the connection between student voice and true democracy.

So in the animal industry, supplements are typically more regulated than they are in the human industry.»

«East - West / West - East towers with the grandeur of Stonehenge or the ruins of a classical city,» wrote Hyperallergic, «and more than any work of Serra's I've ever encountered it establishes an organic relationship to its surroundings, the steel plates as much a reference to the earth's elemental forces and materials as they are to human industry.»

From the eroded fibers of human industry and the tide of urban development to the awareness of ourselves as part of the fabric of a larger universe and a connection to all things, Drew exhumes the visions of the past in a mirror of organic reality that reveals the resonance of life - the nature of nature.

The series of oil paintings, a nearly decade - long project whose tremendous canvases capture both the cathedral - like scale of the abandoned factories and the echo of the human industry they once hosted, is the subject of a solo show that opens Friday, February 29, at the Crisp Museum in Cape Girardeau.

The movements of the air and the waters, the extent of the seas, the elevation and the form of the surface, the effects of human industry and all the accidental changes to the terrestrial surface modify the temperatures in each climate.

The idea behind it is simple: gases accumulating in the atmosphere as by - products of human industry and agriculture — carbon dioxide, mostly, but also methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and chlorofluorocarbon — let in the sun's warming rays but don't let excess heat escape.

There is strong evidence that supports the idea that human industry and fossil fuel use has contributed significantly to the creation of emissions.

Human industry and even agricultural practices have significantly rearranged the chemistry of above - ground minerals and chemicals, so that atoms that were previously bound up in harmless arrangements are now rearranged to form gases that have unnaturally high greenhouse trapping capabilities.

Mother Nature, including her decaying plants and volcanoes, puts about 20 times more CO2 into the atmosphere daily than all human industries contribute.

Beneath all the furious arguments and billion - dollar politics of the climate change debate lies a core assertion: human industry is pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is raising the temperature of the Earth, in a way that will harm all living things.

To show that emissions due to human industry and forestry are the cause of the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is a matter of simple arithmetic.

Year by year the total measured concentration of carbon dioxide grew, as inexorably as the expansion of the world's population and human industry.