Sentences with phrase «influenced by human action»
The impact of these hazards is often strongly influenced by human actions that contribute to disaster risk and long - term changes in the global climate; therefore, the causes of these hazards and disasters related to them are often less than «natural».
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The first thing to give us pause, as we survey the progress of human collectivization, is what I would call the inexorable nature of a phenomenon which arises directly and automatically out of the conjunction of two factors, both of a structural kind: first, the confined surface of the globe, and secondly, the incessant multiplication, within this restricted space, of human units endowed by ever - improving means of communication with a rapidly increasing scope for action; to which may be added the fact that their advanced psychic development makes them preeminently capable of influencing and inter-penetrating one another.
The primitive conceptions of clean and unclean lie at the bottom of these rules; there are certain things and certain events in natural human life (like birth and death) which bring man under the influence of mysterious dæmonic forces; there are actions and situations in life which are full of these dangerous powers or are threatened by them.
Friederike Range of the University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues wanted to see whether dogs» actions, too, were influenced by humans.
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But, despite having some suitably epic moments that deliver on a pure spectacle level, there are times driven by the CGI influenced action binge that seem ridiculously tedious as they fail to properly trick the human eye into believing.
«It seems we can better encourage sustainable actions by understanding the human condition, and these works begin to reflect the human - to - animal relationship, where humans influence, are entertained by, or reject outright their relationship with the animal world.»
I think that debate of any null hypothesis less rigorous than the claim that «any human influence on climate is more catastrophic than any possible alternative action man might take» will ultimately be used by the CAGW forces as if that catastrophic version were indeed the one that had been debated and not falsified.
Trenberth has implied that to be the current null, but one could dispute Trenberth by claiming that the current credible null according to Lindzen, Spencer, and others is that human influence is too trivial to require action.
The rate and magnitude of future human - induced climate change and its associated impacts are determined by human choices defining alternative socio - economic futures and mitigation actions that influence emission pathways.
We're not offering a «counter-claim» about the science, because our position is that even the concrete, incontrovertible, unassailable fact of human influence on global warming and climate change does not, by itself, make a case for action.
It especially explores links between climate change and hydrology, including impacts of climate change on: ecosystems and biodiversity, agriculture and food security, urbanization, land use and forestry, water supply and sanitation, health, infrastructure, and energy security which, in addition to climate, are strongly influenced by human interventions and actions.