Sentences with phrase «impact upon the earth»

Global warming is a small but persistent trend that has significant impacts upon the Earth's climate.

It seems reasonable to lower my impact upon the earth and to walk lightly.

Not exact matches

A conceivable cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs is the impact of some large extraterrestrial body upon earth.

The negative impact that abortion would undeniably have exerted upon my own family line confirms that no physician on earth could possibly foresee the life achievements of future descendants of frail parents.

The researchers hypothesize that a comet hit our planet at the beginning of the PETM, bringing with it its own supply of carbon — and vaporizing carbon - containing sediment here on Earth upon impact.

Turns out, he also has a claim to the country's throne, and what he wants to do with it if he is able to snatch it out from underneath T'Challa will have a calamitous impact upon the clueless nations of the Earth.

All the ecosystems now bear the mark of human presence, but the scale and speed of change in the last 60 years, called by scientists The Great Acceleration, also led them to name anthropocene this new geological epoch — an era marked by the strong impact of human activities upon the atmospherical and geological evolution of planet earth.

It is also questionable, however, whether it is even possible to now separate the two processes, given that over 80 % of the Earth's terrestrial biomes now have evidence of an anthropogenic impact upon them (Ellis & Ramankutty, 2008).

What the three of you seem to be missing, it that it is becoming much more clearly understood that we still have much to learn regarding how CO2 impacts the actual earth climate and that Hansen and Mann over estimated its impact upon the system in total.

What is a fact, is that the fact that the earth warms and cools over time is not relevant to the germane issue of our impact upon future climate right now.

7.4.5 Impact of Cosmic Rays on Aerosols and Clouds 43 44 High solar acti0vity leads to variations in the strength and three - dimensional structure of the heliosphere, 45 which reduces the flux of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) impinging upon the Earth's atmosphere by increasing 46 the deflection of low energy GCR.

From there could you possibly make the giant leap of calculating the total volume of the world's glaciers vs. the total surface of the earth's ocean and seas and realize how small an impact of their melting would have upon the sea level?

CfC's in amounts humans ever produced would have had an impact upon the water supply by a ration of perhaps 10 million: 1 in terms of reaching the O3 layer 10 - 25 miles > the surface of the earth.

The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.

Since the 1970s he has worked on computer simulations of the Earth's climate in a effort to understand humanity's impact upon it.

Perhaps we can't change entire industries, or entire government systems, but every choice we make of where to shop, what to wear, what to purchase and what to eat has an absolutely direct and powerful impact upon life situations for children dying of starvation, pre-pubescent girls and boys working 18 or 20 hour days in toxic sweatshops, cotton pickers suffering from pesticide induced cancers, suicidal farmers, and upon the health and balance of Mother Earth.

With Earth Overshoot Day 2010 coming up fast upon us, and every day's activities past that unsustainably depleting the planet's resources, it seems appropriate to ask whether there ought not be a better way of assessing the impact of the economy on the environment.