Sentences with phrase «humans change the forcing»

«If humans change the forcing, we are going into uncharted territory.»

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«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.

But I would just mention them, namely the science - based technology which gives power to humans to control and engineer with material, social and even psychic forces to achieve purposes and goals for the future chosen by humans; the revolutionary social changes produced by the revolts of the poor and the oppressed in all societies; and the break - up of the traditional religious integration of societies and their reintegration by the State.

In The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order, Francis Fukuyama says our society went seriously out of whack in the 1960s, chiefly because of the change in sexual roles and in employment patterns forced by the rise of the information revolution.

The ratio between the forces of nature and human forces has significantly changed.

Modernity is represented by three forces - first, the revolution in the relation of humanity to nature, signified by science and technology; second, the revolutionary changes in the concept of justice in the social relations between fellow human beings indicated by the self - awakening of all oppressed and suppressed humans to their fundamental human rights of personhood and peoplehood, especially to the values of liberty and equality of participation in power and society; thirdly, the break - up of the traditional integration of state and society with religion, in response to religious pluralism on the one hand and the affirmation of the autonomy of the secular realm from the control of religion on the other».

I suspect that hope is the most neglected force for helping human beings change.

Assuming you're not, and that you're human, you're then forced to ask yourself: has anything changed?

I also have forthcoming articles, which discuss the classical debates around the role of ideas in social change in the tradition of the Left and sketch an alternative approach that is critical towards determinism — the idea that human agency can be predicted by external material forces — but avoids falling into the common idealist trap when one tries to rehabilitate human agency.

A recent report showed humans are causing the climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces.

In their conclusion, the authors state that it is important for conservationists to see climate change not as one of numerous independent variables acting on species survival in mountain landscapes, but as an exacerbating force over the many direct human alterations to these areas.

What we human beings have done is to superimpose a set of forces that are now bringing about climate change much faster than has been the case in the past.

Even the force of human - induced climate change, so evident across the planet, does not meet these requirements.

A weaker sun might slow human - induced climate change slightly but when the sun eventually recovers force, global warming would heat up with even more of a vengeance.

According to Manning, this research not only alters the perception of climatic changes on various scales, from short - term shocks to slower - moving, long - term changes, but it is also revolutionizing the understanding of human societies and how the forces of nature shaped them in the past.

He argues that geoarchaeology — a relatively new science that combines aspects of geology and archaeology — offers the potential to make dramatic contributions to our understanding of how climate change and other large - scale environmental forces are shaping human history.

In parts of the tropics and sub-tropics, protected areas are under pressure from forces related to high human populations and rapid land use change.

After painstakingly piecing together the genome of the extinct strain, a team led by virologist Jeffery Taubenberger, then at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., concluded in 2005 that the virus most closely resembled viruses of avian origin; the team suggested it had become transmissible between humans after a couple of key changes (Science, 7 October 2005, p. 28).

Study co-author Jianguo Liu of Michigan State University, who began studying the human and natural forces driving habitat loss in the panda's geographic range in 1996, noted that some of the changes that have occurred in the region are encouraging.

«The main result supports and extends earlier work, showing that human forcing contributes to changing winds that contribute to subsurface ocean warming, affecting some grounding zones of the ice sheet,» Alley said.

Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having major — and unprecedented — ecological impacts, she said.

In this earth system model, human belief systems and corresponding climate governance will drive anthropogenic GHG emissions that force the climate system, while the magnitude of climate change and related extreme events will influence human perception of associated risk.

Climate forcing consists of factors, naturally occurring and human - made, that contribute to a change in the Earth's energy balance affecting the climate.

Soon is a leading skeptic of the widely accepted science surrounding climate change, In the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, a study titled «The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change» found that 97 percent of scientists surveyed believed global warming already is ongoing, with 84 percent of scientists surveyed believing human - produced greenhouse gases were the driving force behind the cchange, In the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, a study titled «The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change» found that 97 percent of scientists surveyed believed global warming already is ongoing, with 84 percent of scientists surveyed believing human - produced greenhouse gases were the driving force behind the cChange» found that 97 percent of scientists surveyed believed global warming already is ongoing, with 84 percent of scientists surveyed believing human - produced greenhouse gases were the driving force behind the changechange.

The focus of the debate on CO2 is not wholly predicated on its attribution to past forcing (since concern about CO2 emissions was raised long before human - caused climate change had been clearly detected, let alone attributed), but on its potential for causing large future growth in forcings.

One of Ruddiman's main arguments says: Human activity has to be the relevant forcing since our present models can not see purely natural causes for these changes.

«In today's atmosphere, the radiative forcing from human activities is much more important for current and future climate change than the estimated radiative forcing from changes in natural processes.»

The transformation of forested lands by human actions represents one of the great forces in global environmental change and one of the great drivers of biodiversity loss.

The best estimates of the forcings — literally how hard we're pushing on the climate over the period from 1750 to 2005, both human causes and the principle known natural caused changes in the amount of sunlight reaching the earth over this period — overwhelming the human causes are prevailing.

A: Climate changes observed over recent decades are inconsistent with trends caused by natural forces but are totally consistent with the increase in human - induced heat - trapping gases.

Predicted changes in orbital forcing suggest that the next glacial period would begin at least 50,000 years from now, even in absence of human - made global warming (see Milankovitch cycles).

The measured energy imbalance accounts for all natural and human - made climate forcings, including changes of atmospheric aerosols and Earth's surface albedo.

If the only human - made climate forcing were changes of atmospheric CO2, the appropriate CO2 target might be close to the pre-industrial CO2 amount [53].

Paleoclimate data for sea level change indicate that sea level changed at rates of the order of a meter per century [81]--[83], even at times when the forcings driving climate change were far weaker than the human - made forcing.

Thus to provide the clearest picture of the CO2 effect, we approximate the net future change of human - made non-CO2 forcings as zero and we exclude future changes of natural climate forcings, such as solar irradiance and volcanic aerosols.

Forcings, measured in W / m2 averaged over the globe, are imposed perturbations of Earth's energy balance caused by changing forcing agents such as solar irradiance and human - made greenhouse gases (GHGs).

The detailed temporal and geographical response of the climate system to the rapid human - made change of climate forcings is not well - constrained by empirical data, because there is no faithful paleoclimate analog.

The long - term global warming trend is predominantly a forced climate change caused by increased human - made atmospheric gases, mainly CO2 [1].

The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate - human - ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data - model comparisons.

It is important to keep in mind foam rolling likely has its largest gains in softer myofascial structures, because the amount of force needed to produce a 1 % change in dense fascia is far outside the human physiological range (2).

Bacterial species do adapt, and may force the host human into avoiding change, at the price of pain or malnutrition if we try to impose our intellect on its reality.

Although often underestimated, recent investigations using MRI scans have shown that changes in PA do have a material influence on human movement, including joint moments and muscle forces (Chincisan et al. 2015).

A smart, human - scale procedural about working for change, «Selma» is both real and impressively cinematic, full of facts and feelings both — and a much - needed reminder of what America is capable of in the face of what seem like immovable forces of injustice and inertia.

The real task is to educate a labor force that can turn this change to human advantage.

In fact, research has shown one of the quickest ways to lower motivation is to try to force people to make changes — even if they agree with the end goal — because it's human nature to refuse things we don't want and not resist things we do.

Human nature being what it is, I would expect that most countries continue their policies of buying US fixed income until a crisis forces them to change.

A powerful, national online force driven by over one million members, Color Of Change moves decision - makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

Dogs can change their moods just like humans, so don't let first impressions force your decision; come back again once or twice (preferably at different times of the day), and see if the same puppies react the same way.Perhaps adopting an adult dog would be a better choice for you.

Since we already know Shawn Layden has hinted at PSN name changes dropping this year, a window for God of War and Detroit: Become Human, we already have an idea of when to expect these games, and that will help be a driving force for Sony in 2018.

In «UFO Online» players lead a resistance group to change the planet's fate by building their underground base, recruiting experts for their strike force and fighting aliens and humans alike to conquer important territories for their faction.