Sentences with phrase «influenced by human activities»

«Soils have entered an «anthropogenic state,» with most of the global surface area either directly managed by humans or indirectly influenced by human activities,» they write.

ESM 254 - Coastal Marine Ecosystem Processes [4 units] Lenihan Examination of physical, chemical and geological processes in coastal ecosystems, including estuaries, that are influenced by human activities.

To slow the rate of anthropogenic - induced climate change in the 21st century and to minimize its eventual magnitude, societies will need to manage the climate forcing factors that are directly influenced by human activities, in particular greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions.

But in a broader sense, it can simply mean organisms whose genomes have been influenced by human activities — and that includes all food that comes from farms.

Archaeologists have discovered ancient settlements in supposedly uninhabited parts of the Amazon rainforest, proving that it was heavily influenced by human activities.

And let me give you my take on Kuhn's ideas as they relate to AGW — AGW was the paradigm - shift away from the idea that climate was on too massive a scale to be influenced by human activity.

That warning comes weeks after the United Nations released its latest report concluding with «very high confidence» that growing extremes in weather are being influenced by human activity, thus creating new risks for energy systems.

That's Why the Cause of Global Warming is a Fundamental Concern If global warming is only part of a greater climatic fluctuation, perhaps partially influenced by human activity, then there is less need to address human - caused carbon emissions.

There is a new paper out in the Journal of Climate which some have hailed as proof that the global mean sea level is not influenced by human activity.

Not exact matches

The stream of conscious experience and synthetic activity is the dominant society of actual occasions in human (and animal) bodies, being influenced by subordinate organic processes in those bodies, then influencing them in turn in an ongoing dialectic of causality and creativity.

Next, although science may come closer to universality than any other human activity, there are distinct local variations, as scientists adapt to local constraints and approach science with ways of thinking that are influenced by local culture, and these different ways of doing science can teach us things.

Air pollution attributable to human activities outpaced the influence of forest fires on Arctic clouds by a factor of around 100:1.

Despite attempts to locate monitoring sites in places not affected by human activities, the stations are picking up signals of human influence throughout the Caribbean basin.

Though these processes are influenced by factors including climate, vegetation and human activity, erosion is the main factor that affects the amount of carbon that ends up in rivers.

According to the lecturer Emilia Gutiérrez, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the UB, «the data from these trees that grow in heights over 2,000 metres represents the global changes, since their growth is not influenced by the effects of the local human activity (wood cutting, industry).»

In her essay, she described how the interactions between genes and the environment affect human health and disease, concluding that these environmental influences on gene activity allow people to protect their own well - being by cultivating healthy habits.

In Section 2331 of Chapter 113 (A), defines terrorism as activities that: involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State; (B) ``... activities that involve violent... or life - threatening acts... that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State and... appear to be intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and... (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States...» (10) Subsequently paper will go deeper in counter-terrorism legislation of US.

Speechless takes its cue from current discourse on the Anthropocene, described by writer Robert Macfarlane as «the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long - term signature in the strata record.»

Peter Vitousek noted that «We are the first generation with the tools to understand changes in the earth's system caused by human activity, and the last with the opportunity to influence the course of many of the changes now rapidly underway.»

The suggestion for a counter-investigative science force — or red team approach — was presented in prepared testimony by scientists known for questioning the influence of human activity on global warming.

You say «the question of whether this or that storm is caused by human activity overlooks the basic fact that at this point in history both natural and human influence are involved.»

«the question of whether this or that storm is caused by human activity overlooks the basic fact that at this point in history both natural and human influence are involved.

As Bobdroege says, with Trenberth, the question of whether this or that storm is caused by human activity overlooks the basic fact that at this point in history both natural and human influence are involved.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term primarily human - caused trend.

By asking if human activity is «a significant factor», it allows that other influences are as, or even more significant.

More specifically, the article implicitly attributes many weather events to human - induced climate change, while the influence of human activity on these events is not always supported by science, or is at the frontier of scientific knowledge and still debated.

The the greatest provable fact that sinks the argument that global climatic warming is induced by human activity, or is even significantly influenced by it, is the fact that it has been occurring since before the human race ever produced any noticeable pollution.

Although the oceans cover most of Earth, the the tiny sliver of the coastal ocean greatly influences, and is most influenced by, human activity.

In a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, three MIT scientists assert that the human influence on the climate of the Central United States is dominated by agricultural activity rather than greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Because 20 - year trends can be substantially influenced by just a few single or multi-year «warm» or «cold» events, they are not necessarily representative of the true response of the climate system to the more gradual changes in atmospheric composition that are taking place in response to human activities.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term human - caused trend.

CO2 in the atmosphere is influenced by temperature, acidity of the oceans, ocean water turn - over, human emissions, plant growth, volcanic activity.....

A good scientist would have issued a correction something along the lines of «I missed the fact that tidal gauges are influenced strongly by local changes in land elevation due to river silt, human activity, post-ice age rebound, and earthquakes.

Scientists know that recent climate change is largely caused by human activities from an understanding of basic physics, comparing observations with models, and fingerprinting the detailed patterns of climate change caused by different human and natural influences.

For instance, Bond et al. report that black carbon aerosol, or soot, is second only to carbon dioxide as the substance emitted by human activity that has the greatest warming influence on the climate — contributing a quarter (or perhaps even a bit more) to the current overall anthropogenic warming effect.

A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.

Global temperature is influenced by a number of factors, some natural and some due to human activities.

The summary related aviation's role relative to all human influence on the climate system: «The best estimate of the radiative forcing in 1992 by aircraft is 0.05 W m — 2 or about 3.5 % of the total radiative forcing by all anthropogenic activities.»