Sentences with phrase «keep humans warm»

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Those changes have been driven by human - caused greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the world and causing Earth's climate to change faster than reefs can keep up.

They believe the chemicals that keep spice plants safe from their natural predators are the same compounds that keep food safe for human consumption, particularly in warm climes where bacteria grow faster.

The inquiry aims to find out whether the oil company was aware of the dangers of human - made climate change but chose to keep quiet and to promote denial groups challenging the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet.

They then put the dishes into special chambers called bioreactors that keep them warm and in gentle motion reminiscent of a womb, encouraging the cells to form blobs with working neurons and many other features of a full - size human brain.

According to one of its lead authors, the report will say that to limit global warming to 2 °C, we must keep CO2 emissions from all human sources since the start of the Industrial Revolution to below about a trillion tonnes of carbon.

Aside from keeping America's java drinkers content, PCMs developed by PureTemp are also being used in far more significant ways, including the Embrace infant warmer; the Cool Vest, which prevents overheating in human and canine troops in Afghanistan; and the Greenbox, which safely transports pharmaceuticals, blood and vaccines.

One possibility, the researchers say, is that the extra sweat glands helped humans to keep cool in the warm and humid Chinese climate of 30,000 years ago.

Which should keep the animal — or potentially the human in a future furry wet suit — warm.

Brown fat burns calories, and is what hibernating animals — and even human babies — use to keep warm.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

While Tillerson has advocated for the US to keep a seat at international climate talks, he has also disputed the scientific consensus that global warming is mostly caused by human activity.

As the graph below from Spracklen's News and Views article shows, the balance between warming (red shading) and cooling (blue shading) have kept the country's contribution to human - caused climate change pegged at about 10 % in recent decades, despite soaring fossil fuel emissions.

To keep to 350 ppm, which already means a long - term warmer world, we may have to go to zero or less - than - zero human emission levels.

Early humans used to skin their kills and use their furs to keep themselves warm in the snowy and cold winters.

Wool has been keeping the human race warm for centuries.

Keep in mind that online dating can be just as challenging for men as it is for women, and the best way to get some positive attention and responses to your profile is to allow the warm, funny, human side of you to jump up out of the pages.

Plus some parts just demand to be seen again, with excellent camera work, luxurious lighting and dramatic scenery and flawed characters with secrets to maintain while trying to «keep it all together» in the midst of crisis and remaining warm and human meaning they come across as human and real.

This monumental feat of logistics might well have dwarfed the human element, and yet Linklater keeps the movie buoyant, loose and warm; never straining for profundity and letting the process shape his story.

Items will be distributed to homeless dogs & humans to help keep them warm on cold days.

The coats of dogs share important features in common with the coats humans wear to keep warm.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

The news on climate change seemed bad enough in 2007, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced in their fourth assessment report that «warming of the climate system is unequivocal,» that humans were «very likely» to blame, and that if we keep pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, climate will «very likely» change much more than it did in the 20th century.

Last week I posted a «Your Dot» contribution from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climate scientist concerned that policy makers and the public keep in mind the primacy of carbon dioxide emissions if they are serious about limiting the chances of propelling disruptive human - driven global warming.

[ANDY REVKIN says: Keep in mind that my «point of no dissent» is not the IPCC conclusion (that most warming since 1950 is very likely human driven).

The world should take note that the climate summit in Paris later this year (COP21) may be the last effective opportunity to negotiate arrangements that keep human - induced warming below 2 - degrees C, and aim to stay well below 2 - degree C for safety, yet the current trajectory may well reach a devastating 4 - degrees C or higher;

One theory as to why avian flu hasn't spread as much from chickens to humans in West Africa is that Nigeria and neighbors are warmer and there's more space, so people don't have to keep their chickens in their houses — meaning they breathe less chicken feces and dander, etc..

Unfortunately it is not realistic to keep the warming at or below 2 degrees C. Also, I do not think we will have a run away global climate at 2 degrees or such drought and weather changes that the human population will be threatened in a major way.

I know from the careful wording of his speeches that Inhofe is mainly rejecting evidence pointing to «catastrophic» human - caused warming, but I don't see him being quick to point out that he doesn't dispute the basic reality that greenhouse gases keep Earth warm and more will make things warmer.

As we've learned from what's called «the terrifying math of global warming», we need to leave a huge amount of fossil fuels that have been discovered in the ground instead of burning them into the atmosphere in order to keep the planet from warming so much as to make it inhospitable to human life.

Global warming also refers to what scientists think will happen in the future if humans keep adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

Biomass Heating Systems Are a Proven Technology — One That Has Been in Use for Thousands of Years since humans began burning wood to cook and keep warm.

The paleoclimate record makes it clear that a target to keep human made global warming less than 2 °C, as proposed in some international discussions, is not sufficient — it is a prescription for disaster.

While many greenhouse gases occur naturally and are needed to create the greenhouse effect that keeps the Earth warm enough to support life, human use of fossil fuels is the main source of excess greenhouse gases.

Furthermore, Siberia would be one of the regions for which climate change would indeed be a regional warming - it is already heating up [wikipedia.org] much faster than any other part of the globe, and if it keeps doing so, it will become much more prospective for human settlement and agriculture, and in short - term perspective provide for easier access to the vast natural resources of the region.

Since then, humans have grown in number while thinning and shaving the forests to cook, keep warm, grow crops, plank ships, frame houses, and make paper.

For we have already burned enough fossil fuel to keep warming on the trajectory to hit 1.5 to 2.5 C this century and 3 - 5 C or somewhat more long term — a bad result, and one that would likely require extensive human deployment of atmospheric carbon capture technologies.

I have been keeping notes on significant cold weather anomalies since appox 2014 and I will paste them below, obviously the low solar activity is the principle cause of these anomalies but does human activity such as pollution - aerosals that humans emit make the conditions worse — that can not be proven but it's obvious that most of the climate change, whether it's cooling or warming is natural not»cause d' by human activity.

Hysterical global warming alarmists keep claiming that polar sea ice melt is due to increasing human CO2 emissions.

This will trigger an irreversible feedback system and nullify existing calculations of just how much carbon humans can burn and keep the globe within a relatively safe degree of warming.

These include claiming that addressing climate change will keep the poor in «energy poverty»; citing the global warming «hiatus» or «pause» to dismiss concerns about climate change; pointing to changes in the climate hundreds or thousands of years ago to deny that the current warming is caused by humans; alleging that unmitigated climate change will be a good thing; disputing that climate change is accelerating sea level rise; and denying that climate change is making weather disasters more costly.

He believes that man - made global warming is real, that most of the climate change since at least the 1950s is man - made, and that if we keep going business - as - usual it could destroy human civilisation itself!

Simply stated: the IPCC predicted that if human emissions of CO2 kept growing in a business - as - usual (BAU) manner, the world would experience a high likelihood of global warming acceleration - to a per century rate of 2.8 °C.

For instance, climate science and climate politics have moved unexpectedly quickly toward a broad understanding that we need to keep total human - caused global warming as far as possible below 2 °C (3.6 °F)-- and ideally to no more than 1.5 °C.

«Fox News is the biggest single factor keeping almost 40 % of Americans from believing humans are changing the climate, while only 10 % know that 97 % of climate scientists agree we are warming the earth at our peril.

Problem is, it's pretty much just a retread of the path the U.S. is already on, which isn't enough to keep global warming from crossing the «dangerous» two degree Celsius threshold — a point above which scientific consensus paints an increasingly bleak future, with global impacts capable of destabilizing human society.

Even keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius — the target for international climate treaty talks — will force many species to the brink of extinction, threatening food supplies, human health, economies and communities.

Unfortunately those big shots who write reports like the AR5 either do not understand this or simply did not bother to read the scribblings of a denier, and still keep babbling about Arctic warming caused by human actions.

The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences.The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line.The lectures follow a textbook, «Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast,» written for the course.

It states that «global warming, poorly planned coastal development and other threats over which humans have some control are weakening natural defenses ranging from mangrove swamps to coral reefs that help keep the oceans at bay.»

I wonder why you keep downplaying the serious risk that global warming poses to human civilisation, even to the extent of distorting to your readers what the IPCC (i.e. the scientific community at large) finds.