Sentences with phrase «humans rise to challenges»

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Science Can not Prove History In the movie Religulous (which I recently reviewed), Bill Maher challenged Francis Collins (the leading geneticist of the Human Genome Project) to scientifically prove that Jesus really lived, died, and rose again.

I think the human race will rise to meet these challenges.»

Together, we will rise to future challenges within molecular life science in order to improve human health.

Finally, this study demonstrated that provoked hypothesis driven physiological studies in human knockouts should discover new biology; for instance, after challenge with oral fat, APOC3 knockouts displayed marked blunting of the usual post-prandial rise in plasma triglycerides compared to wild - type family members.

It's courageous, it's emotional and it's beautiful to see the human spirit rise to such a surmountable challenge that faces our great city.

Sometimes people rise to a challenge and find a way to help not only animals but humans.

So, where does art rise above ironic ridicule and aspire to greatness, in terms of challenging convention and elevating the human spirit?

Todd Stern, the new United States special envoy on climate change, clearly understands the «bathtub effect» that experts say makes the rising human contribution to the atmosphere's greenhouse effect such a thorny challenge.

Climate knowledge is growing rapidly now and while there still remain some interesting challenges to the status quo on certain points (for example, exactly how it is that CO ₂ and CH ₄ started rising some 5000 years ago, if not by human impacts, or how it is that humans overwhelmed expected gradual declines and added enough to achieve those rises that far back) that need further research... the very conservative consensus, which must be conservative by its nature since it takes time for consensus to develop as further research helps to close gaps and remove or improve assumptions, is always playing catch - up it seems.

Gary Yohe, an environmental economist at Wesleyan University, is one of a large group of veteran students of the climate - energy challenge who say the persistent uncertainties surrounding human - driven warming are the reason to act, to act promptly, and to include a rising price on emissions of greenhouse gases in any policy mix.

Bloggers skeptical of global warming's causes * and commentators fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases have made much in recent days of a string of posts on Climateaudit.org, one of the most popular Web sites aiming to challenge the deep consensus among climatologists that humans are setting the stage for generations of disrupted climate and rising seas.

A recent study, for example, used paintings to investigate evolving eating habits — of interest to Dot Earth because consumption patterns contribute to the challenges facing a world with rising human numbers and appetites.

That is because, as the temperatures rise, heat and humidity begin to challenge human physiology.

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The other argument is that, even if humans do in the decades to come rise to the challenge, it could be too late: by then greenhouse gas concentrations could have reached a level in the atmosphere that would in the long run condemn the world to sea level rises of several metres, and a succession of economic and humanitarian disasters.

Ditto the challenge of flight: «If aircraft carbon emissions continue to rise they could contribute up to 15 per cent of global warming from human activities within 50 years.»

A new research centre to study the opportunities and challenges the rise of human - level intelligence among machines might present in the near future has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University.

Quite frankly, there is some truth to that as my senior - level clients have risen through the ranks through challenges involving human resources, administration, general management, operations, sales, marketing, finance, technology and the like.