Sentences with phrase «impacted human civilization»

Tornadoes, including severe tornado outbreaks, have always impacted human civilization and likely always will.

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Even in the deepest, darkest, most inaccessible location on the planet, the impact of human civilization is still evident on the ocean floor.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

Benny Peiser, an anthropologist - cum - pessimist at Liverpool John Moores University in England, claims that impacts have repeatedly disrupted human civilization.

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.

Secondly, while there are indeed lots of other unsustainable human impacts on ecosystems and the Earth's biosphere generally, the rapidly escalating effects of anthropogenic global warming threaten to overwhelm all of those other problems in the very near future, with devastating impacts not only for human civilization and the human species, but for all life on Earth, for a long, long time.

Human civilization does not need to collapse in order for X to negatively impact human and other forms of life, regardless of whether X is cancer or anthropogenic climate chHuman civilization does not need to collapse in order for X to negatively impact human and other forms of life, regardless of whether X is cancer or anthropogenic climate chhuman and other forms of life, regardless of whether X is cancer or anthropogenic climate change.

Nor do we know what the full impacts of warming will be on wider Earth systems, or how adaptable nature and human civilizations may prove to be.

Smil helps readers understand the relationships among the energy density of fuels, the shape of human civilization, and humanity's environmental impact.

Our global civilization is conducting an unprecedented, unplanned experiment (major global recession) in reducing human CO2 emissions, and it's not having much impact on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

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.

If doubling CO2 was to have a very bad impact on human civilization, then we're far enough along that it should be biting hard.

Here, we argue that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist.

In combination, these two research efforts add to the massive amount of scientific evidence that climate change is always occurring; and, most definitely does not require human consumer / industrial greenhouse gases to produce significant impacts on planetary environments and those associated civilizations.

Other impacts of human civilization, such as deforestation and other changes to land use, pollution and black soot landing on Arctic snows also contribute to warming.

Argues that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist