Sentences with phrase «human role in»

In terms of detecting new and unknown threats, even the most sophisticated A.I. and machine learning is no substitute for the human role in creative problem - solving.

The evidence for the dominance of the human role in what we are experiencing is powerful and I think it should be persuasive to anybody not blinded by wishful thinking who looks at that evidence carefully.

Using Tom Curtis's «conversational implicature» approach to the classification scheme (ignore the classification as given and, because you are a person of goodwill, assume that all mentions of acceptance or rejection of a human role in global warming really refer to acceptance or rejection of the consensus that «humans are causing > 50 % of the current global warming») amends Table 2 as follows:

As noted above, however, the evidence for the human role in observed warming, like the evidence for that warming itself, just kept getting stronger.

The debate may largely be drawn along political lines, but the human role in climate change remains one of the most controversial questions in 21st century science.

(Walker, who was the Republican chair of the House science committee from 1995 to 1997, claimed that «half» the world's climatologists doubt the human role in global warming — that's just not true.)

In reality, the correlation between global mean temperature and carbon dioxide over the 20th century forms an important, but very small part of the evidence for a human role in climate change.

A recent survey of school teachers in the U.S. found that although two - thirds of them accepted a major human role in recent global warming, less than half were aware of the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists.

Neil also downplayed the human role in the rapid Arctic sea ice decline, which has seen a loss of three quarters of its ice mass over the past three decades.

In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes wrought by it, new potential for human action upon the Earth demand exploration, asking: Which forms of cooperation could arise from a new awareness of the human role in interlacing nature and technology?

Many environmentalists have embraced stewardship as the human role in the natural world.

Lonnie Thompson's report from Kilimanjaro made the front page of the New York Times: Andrew Revkin, «Glacier Loss Seen as Clear Sign of Human Role in Global Warming,» Feb. 19, 2005.

At the same time, the company, the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

Ironically, just as climate change has made it on to the front page because the weight of evidence supporting a human role in recent warming, increased coverage may actually be leading people to think that scientists are more divided on the basic questions.

CEQ Chief of Staff Phil Cooney and other CEQ officials made at least 294 edits to the Administration s Strategic Plan of the Climate Change Science Program to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming.

«Virtually everybody agrees,» he tells me, that «there has been warming in the second half of the 20th century [and] that there is probably a human role in that warming, that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and that the increase in atmospheric concentrations can be attributed to human activity.»

Given that climate change challenges not only vested interests, but also a deeply entrenched world view — as once did the notion that the earth goes around the sun, widespread denial of the human role in it should not come as a great surprise.

Global warming emerged as a very strong hypothesis in the then - obscure scientific discipline of climate science in the 1980's with mounting empirical data supporting the human role in increases in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide.

A SCIENTIFIC statement that recently came out of Madrid should put to rest any doubts about global warming and the human role in it.

The most difficult problem is always the human role in putting in information that's not counted among the free parameters fitted to the history.

Soft - pedaling such threats can take the form of the National Park Service denying the human role in climate change by aggressively editing out all references to that role in its report on sea level rise and storm surge.

There are a few scientists — and even a very few who actively publish in the peer - reviewed literature on climatology — who reject or play down the human role in recent climate change.

There are some interesting quotes from climate scientists in this article that highlight a large degree of uncertainty with respect to the climate system, and the human role in it, even among scientists closely involved with the IPCC reports.

Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research dug into the physical science underpinning knowledge of the human role in global warming.

We discussed this broader view of the human role in the climate system in a recent article in EOS (where all of the authors are AGU Fellows):

``... the company [Exxon Mobil], the world's largest oil and gas concern, has increased donations to Washington - based policy groups that, like Exxon itself, question the human role in global warming and argue that proposed government policies to limit carbon dioxide emissions associated with global warming are too heavy handed.

International Wolf Project http://www.wolf.org The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wild lands and the human role in their future.

And to say that emotions matter is to say that the fact that stocks are bought and sold by the humans matters because it is the human role in all of this that causes emotions to be a factor.

Just as there is consensus about the human role in climate change, the perception that our species is now piloting the planet has led scientists to declare a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene or the Human Age.

Bryce Dallas Howard is in talks to star in «Jurassic World», while the other important human role in the fourth «Jurassic Park» movie remains uncast.

Meanwhile, on the downlow, Carver's good - looking, underappreciated son Al (Michael Schoeffling, best known as Jake Ryan of Sixteen Candles) begins training Sonora for the lead human role in the act, one already held by the semi-conceited Marie (Kathleen York).

Using a statistical model calibrated to the relationship between global mean temperature and rates of GSL change over this time period, we are assessing the human role in historic sea - level rise and identifying human «fingerprints» on coastal flood events.

«In the face of natural variability and complexity, the consequences of change in any single factor, for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.»

A gap similar to the one between younger and older adults about evolution exists concerning the evidence for, seriousness of, and human role in global warming (pdf).

She also emphasises the importance of the study to current debates about a human role in climate warming: «Cumulative archaeological data clearly demonstrates that humans are more than capable of reshaping and dramatically transforming ecosystems.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment offers little room for those who doubt the human role in global...

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

Later in the debate, State Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat from Manhattan's West Side, grilled Young on investments contained in the budget resolution that, he argued, acknowledged the human role in causing climate change.

Indeed, that chapter concluded with one of the most powerful paragraphs in all of Wieman's writings on the human role in the growth of value.

Thus, while the idea behind the terms «event» and «activity» may be basically the same, the shift may have indicated a growing concern that the stress be laid on the human role in the growth of value.

The ultimate goal of this activity is to allow students to be official tour guides and to teach one another about biomes, environmental responsibilities, habitats, and human roles in the various ecosystems.

Not exact matches

A human resources department serves an important role in an organization, helping bring workers together and supporting managers when they hire, fire, or take disciplinary action.

(The connective tissue in the latter, as readers discover, is the role human empathy plays in the public response to the tragedy.)

The influential paper identified insects as playing a key role in solving global food security issues and urged for the diversification of human diets.

You need to work with Human Resources to clarify performance expectations for each role in the business.

In the past, human resource managers were cast in a support role in which their thoughts on cost / benefit justifications and other operational aspects of the business were rarely soliciteIn the past, human resource managers were cast in a support role in which their thoughts on cost / benefit justifications and other operational aspects of the business were rarely solicitein a support role in which their thoughts on cost / benefit justifications and other operational aspects of the business were rarely solicitein which their thoughts on cost / benefit justifications and other operational aspects of the business were rarely solicited.

«A cascade of changing business conditions, changing organizational structures, and changing leadership has been forcing human resource departments to alter their perspectives on their role and function almost overnight,» wrote John Johnston in Business Quarterly.

Evolutionary psychologists say that humor plays a pivotal role in human development.

What it does: The role of this bacteria, which is most well - known for causing syphilis and Lyme disease, is still not well - understood in humans.

On the other hand, many species have peacefully coevolved with humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.