Sentences with phrase «impact on human history»

They open up a whole new viewpoint, often exposing the human element as it interfaces with changes in climate over the centuries, and in some cases demonstrating how climate had an impact on human history

Process thought itself is an alternative to the substantialist view that has had an adverse practical impact on human history.

«No other figure — spiritual, philosophical, political, or intellectual — has had a greater impact on human history,» Cousins said.

It said «most important» as in «this text has had a massive impact on human history, from wars to literature, from art to entire political systems; all have been heavily informed by this text.»

Creative transformation is a process that is taking place at all times and places but that is particularly manifest in Jesus and in his impact on human history.

The mission of the Comet Research Group is to accurately assess the effects of comet impacts on human history, to educate the international public about these effects, and, ultimately, to provide governments and the scientific community with the information they need to stop comets from hitting Earth in the future.

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Later, when interviewed in a 2006 article in the New York Times Sunday magazine about current religious thinking on artificial contraception, Mohler elaborated: «I can not imagine any development in human history, after the Fall, that has had a greater impact on human beings than the Pill....

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

In just this way, Jesus Christ, in His self - revelation of the Trinity, has had a decisive impact on the development of the meaning of the term, person, and with it the human individual — which signifcation and signifcance remains indelibly bound - up with Christian history.

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

History lesson With the advent of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the CEQ was set up to ensure that the federal government adequately conducted the newly required environmental impact statements, resolved disputes on environmental subjects among agencies as well as states, and generally ensured that NEPA's goal of «productive harmony» among human economic pursuits and the natural environment came to pass.

Such is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human history.

A truly revolutionary equation can have a greater impact on human existence than all the kings and queens whose machinations fill our history books.

In May 2013, the CO2 concentration in Earth's atmosphere surpassed a milestone of 400 ppm for the first time in human history, a level that many scientists consider dangerous territory in terms of its impact on Earth's climate.

One of the report's lead authors, Monash University Professor Steven Chown, said key areas for scientific research in the region over the next two decades included looking at human impact on the region, understanding the evolution of Antarctic life, looking at the region's history, and the impact of climate change in the area.

«Looking back on 2500 years, there are examples where climate change impacted human history,» says the study's lead author, Ulf Büntgen, a paleoclimatologist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape in Zurich.

The Y chromosome lineage will have a big impact on the emerging field of «archaeogenetics,» the reconstruction of human history from molecular genetics, says archaeologist Colin Renfrew of the McDonald Institute for Archeological Research in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

In this history of seismology and its impact, Coen focuses on the contributions of human observers — citizens as well as scientists.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

Our study reconstructs the genetic and adaptive history of a neglected episode of the African Diaspora and illustrates the impact of recent admixture on the diffusion of adaptive traits across human populations.

https://letgirlslearn.peacecorps.gov/ FOR SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES SPECIFICALLY FOR GIRLS Let Girls Learn STEM: Technology From Ancient Technology to the Technology of the Future Goal: Students will learn that technologies have been developed throughout history and that ancient technologies influenced present ones Objective: Students will learn about ancient technologies, how they created present technologies, the impact of technology on humans and how we live, and develop their own 22nd century technology design and prototype.

Ideas should also lead to enjoyment and satisfaction in being able to answer or find answers to the kinds of questions that people ask about themselves and the natural world, and have cultural significance reflecting achievements in the history of science, inspiration from the study of nature and the impacts of human activity on the environment.

We are delighted to invite you to attend our Big History Anthropocene Conference: A Transdisciplinary Exploration in Sydney, Australia.The human race has had such a profound impact on the climate and environment of the Earth that some have proposed we have entered a new geological era — the Anthropocene.

The impact of incarceration on Kentucky students By Rosalyn Huff Throughout the course of human history, «crime and punishment» has been a topic of debate, and in recent times, it has become the focal point of a global conversation.

The impact seeds have had on human history can hardly be overstated, as Hanson enthusiastically makes quite clear in endless practical examples that range from the seeds needed for fracking to the variety of seeds in the average pantry.

The argument that dogs are designed by their evolutionary history to eat raw meat based diets is riddled with errors and fallacies and ignores the impact of tens of thousands of years of domestication and cohabitation with humans on the physiology of our canine friends.

Reflecting on the two sides of human nature, the creative and the destructive, as well as the capacity for humans to act and make an impact on history and the environment, Quinn hopes the installation, entitled Support, will address the ability for humans to make a change and re-balance the world around them — environmentally, economically, socially.

For more than fifty years, he has explored the relationship between history, the passage of time and its impact on human existence, through a rigorous and radical artistic practice.

I hope that while placing the Tunguska event into perpspective we also come to realize that our false sense of security regarding impacts like this and worse is largely perceptual based on our limited understanding of our own history and its woefully human timescale, and I hope we realize that impacts might not be the rare events we've come to consider them as being, and that they may not arrive singularly and only on rare occasions, but as swarms of potentially devastating event producers, as our planet enters into regions of our Milky Way where clouds of potentially planet - disrupting objects are a genuine concern and are something we can and should do something about... and soon.

This fast - forward moment in human history (a k a «the great acceleration «-RRB- is characterized by a mix of clarity on long - term trends (greenhouse gases and warming; plunging poverty and rising income inequality; declining deaths in conflict...) and short - term turbulence and unpredictability, with impacts amplified by global interconnectedness.

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado, has a must - read article in The Wall Street Journal, «Hurricanes and Human Choice,» that sets Hurricane Sandy and its impacts in the broader context of hurricane and climate history — and drawing on his invaluable work assessing such impacts when the losses are «normalized» — a process akin to adjusting economic analysis for inflation.

Since early humans first moved out of Africa, the world's climate has had a continual impact on our history.

ABOUT THE COURSE Since early humans first moved out of Africa, the world's climate has had a continual impact on our history.

So far - reaching is the impact of modern humans that esteemed palaeoclimatologist Wally Broecker has suggested that we have not entered a new geological epoch, a relatively minor event on the geologic time scale, but a new era — the Anthropozoic — on a par in Earth history with the development of multicellular life.

Climate variation and its impact on history and the human condition was a fascinating area with no political conflicts or clear exploitation.

The paper by Hurtt et al. (2011) is the first to harmonize land - use history data with future scenario data from multiple IAMs to form a single consistent, spatially gridded, set of scenarios on land - use change, to study human impacts on the past, present, and future Earth system.

In Part 1 «Climate makes history ``, the documentary looks at how abrupt climate changes indeed occurred in the past and how they had profound impacts on the development of our civilization, thus dumping cold water on the naïve notion that climate used to be more or less steady before humans began industrialization.

Humans, being late - comers to the scene, obviously had no impact on ancient historical fluctuations, which data shows to be as extreme or more extreme than any change in recent history.

My prime area of research was climatology, particularly how climate changes over time and the impact of those changes on human history and the human condition.

My major research interest in climatology is historical climate, but particularly the impact of climate and climate change on human history and the human condition.

Dr. Ball's extensive science background in climatology, especially the reconstruction of past climates and the impact of climate change on human history and the human condition, made him the perfect choice as the Chief Science Adviser with the International Climate Science Coalition.

Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History — winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction — takes an unflinching look at the history of extinction and the different ways that human beings are negatively impacting life on the History — winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction — takes an unflinching look at the history of extinction and the different ways that human beings are negatively impacting life on the history of extinction and the different ways that human beings are negatively impacting life on the planet.

«We are realising that the Anthropocene is a phenomenon on a massive scale — it is the transformation of our planet by human impact, in ways that have no precedent in the 4.54 billion years of Earth history.

To really make an impact on the hiring managers or human resources department leaders, you'll need to impress them with a solid work history.

So in the coming months, the Prime Minister and his government will have a historic opportunity to unite Australia by acknowledging the existence and the impact of this dark aspect of our history; by paying respect to the stolen generations for their suffering, their resilience and their dignity; and by laying the foundations for a reconciled Australia, built on respect for human rights and a commitment to social inclusion.