Sentences with phrase «human influences in»

Pleistocene climate oscillations yield a fast - feedback climate sensitivity of 3 ± 1 °C for a 4 W m − 2 CO2 forcing if Holocene warming relative to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is used as calibration, but the error (uncertainty) is substantial and partly subjective because of poorly defined LGM global temperature and possible human influences in the Holocene.

There's more on the challenges of studying frogs in ecosystems disrupted by all manner of human influences in «Booming Field: Studying the Living Vanished,» by Joseph R. Mendelson III, the curator of herpetology at Zoo Atlanta.

Newly published research in «PNAS» identifies what authors call a «vertical human fingerprint» in satellite - based estimates of atmospheric temperature changes, adding still more to confidence levels about human influences in warming.

They compared the probability of the extreme summer of 2013 in the natural - only experiments with the ones that had human influences in them.

Ardren says the main point of her research is to contribute quantifiable data on the human influence in tree island formation, which is a major factor ignored in most Everglades restoration research and models.

There is evidence for human influence in some individual ocean basins.

He wrote: «The Anthropocene is not about being able to detect human influence in stratigraphy, but reflects a change in the Earth system» (my emphasis).

«The fundamental problem with this suggested setup is that it virtually guarantees you will find a positive role for human influence in all the most extreme weather events.»

Somewhere recently I read that Ben Santer singlehandedly edited the scientists» report to IPCC so that, instead of it reading as the scientists wrote it, to the effect that they could NOT be certain of human influence in global warming, it read to the effect that they WERE (at least «reasonably») certain of human influence.

Climate scientists can quantify the role of human influence in individual flooding events; specifically whether they are made more or less likely in a changing climate.

Now that the possibility has been opened, and scientists are allowed to see and speak of widespread human influence in the Amazon, more evidence will be found.

This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»

Those are the stubborn facts, with the end result being that nature totally trumps human influence in regards to climate.

Not exact matches

«What's at risk is our foreign policy, that it will be influenced not by what matters — human rights, civil rights or legitimate economic interests — but by the Philippines» ability to get in the good graces of our president.»

A joint statement from the National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society in Britain said «human - induced increases in CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentrations have been the dominant influence on the long - term global surface temperature increase.»

Research from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published in April concluded that social influence can encourage a particular behavior through direct or indirect persuasion.

In any event, Stefan and Gueguen write, the results provide further evidence that «human interaction between two strangers can be influenced by subtle cues of physical appearance.»

The enduring principles Cialdini delivers in Influence are aspects of the human psyche that are hard - wired into us, and aren't going away any time soon.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

Meicun Weng, the founder of Chinese community and news site Boxun (which regularly reports on Chinese human - rights abuses and is blocked in China), drives home the point about how the Chinese government wields influence with its economic power.

After completing this module, you will be able to... • Explain at least four constraints that influence how human resources are managed in a particular organization.

Behavioral finance attempts to understand and explain how human emotions influence investors in their decision - making process.

«At this point it's really uncertain if there's any detectable human influence on any hurricane or tropical cyclone metric,» Tom Knutson, an NOAA meteorologist who studies hurricanes, told Vox in October.

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

The report concludes that any coherent strategy for increasing Canadian engagement with, and influence in, Asia should recognize that trade and investment strategies and practices need to be coordinated with human rights goals.

The report suggests that combining human rights priorities with broader Canadian strategic interests — including trade and investment policies — can support a prosperity strategy that strengthens Canada's influence in the region.

This is a law of human nature described by American Professor of Psychology Robert Cialdini in his book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

Stitch Fix's IPO could usher in a new era for subscription e-commerce and influence how other subscription companies combine data science, human judgment, and customer service to succeed in an increasingly competitive retail market.

Although human - rights lawyers have been justified in criticizing gacaca courts for their low standards of due process and selectivity in prosecution, others have shown that acknowledgment, repentance, and forgiveness have taken place widely in the hearings, in good part due to the influence of churches.

The human mind and its» discords diminish or increase depending upon the influences it takes in.

I frankly believe while there is plenty of need to introduce and reinforce ethics in human endevours, and to have frank, open discussions of these endevours, religion is at its bottom line a matter of faith and, while it can be an individual's guiding influence, it is not something that should be associated with science.

Griffiths suggests that the secular cultural field may emerge in part from the influence of the capitalist market economy, which results in «market - states» and the identification of human beings as primarily «consumers» or «choosers.»

From social media profile pics to letters to the editor, blog posts, fundraisers, film screenings, Human Trafficking 101 trainings, etc. identify what you can do in your sphere of influence to raise awareness, agitate and train your community.

To explain its relationship to resurrection, John Wesley draws an analogy with human experiences of joy and laughter, stating «the joy of the soul, even in this life, has some influence upon the countenance, by rendering it more open and cheerful.»

June 19, 2013 — A Cornell University study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that play roles in turning genes on and off.

The military powers are not power realities in themselves, but they influence every aspect of the human life in a given society and in the world, for militarization of politics, economic structures, and cultural values is the pervasive phenomenon.

Whether one is a determinist or a believer in self - transcendence, HGI may provide information that makes it possible to influence human destiny through biological engineering.

Consequently, if it is not possible for him, psychologically to surround each being with that particular, overflowing affection which characterizes our human love, at least he can nurture in his heart that generalized but none the less real affection for all that is which will cause him to cherish in each thing, over and above its surface qualities, the being itself — that is to say, that indefinable, elect part of each thing which, under God's influence, gradually becomes flesh of his flesh.

Crane Brinton reminds us that among the stock of ideas developed in the modern world is «the idea that ideas are powerless to influence human actions.»

To secure a larger combined influence for the Churches of Christ in all matters affecting the moral and social condition of the people, so as to promote the application of the law of Christ in every relation to human life.»

Where human holiness offers itself as a means to his ends, God is not content to send forth in greater intensity his creative influence, the child of his power: he himself comes down into his work to consolidate its unification.

In their essential interdependence, human beings exert power and influence on other persons.

A culture, even one of long duration, is modifiable by human effort under the impact of a new ideology — witness the radical transformation of China under Communist influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.

If I read Niebuhr correctly, the two are roughly equal their strength and influence in human affairs.

The major contribution of interpersonal psychology to a comprehensive philosophy of human nature is that what a person becomes is decisively influenced by his relationships with other persons — chiefly those in his family in the first few years of life.

By this word, in the New Testament as in the Old, the noblest altitudes and attributes of the human spirit and the saving influences of the divine spirit were expressed.

Preparation for preaching, therefore, should include time spent studying the human and social implications of their pastoral and community relationships; reading papers and magazines; listening to radio; watching television; attending the theater and movies in order that the church's preaching may engage the meanings that influence people with the meanings of the gospel.

For the saving love of God to be present to human beings it would have to be so in a way different from how it is present to other aspects of the body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.

The highest cause may be (1) in every sense or aspect «uncaused,» in no sense or aspect the effect of anything else; or it may be (2) in some aspects uncaused, and in others causally influenced, but its manner of both acting and receiving influences may be the highest conceivable, hence absolutely «perfect,» although even so its whole being may not in every sense be perfect, because the influences as coming from other causes, say human beings, may be less admirable than they might be; or the supreme cause may be (3) in no sense or aspect uncaused, independent of other powers, hence in no way wholly exempt from the imperfections of the latter...