Sentences with phrase «more than all human activities»

One claim that I have come across frequently is that volcanic eruptions influence the climate much more than human activity.

One claim that I have come across frequently is that volcanic eruptions influence the climate much more than human activity.

If something else is increasing the CO2 in the atmosphere more than the human activities, then where has all this extra CO2 gone.

The French mathematicians also said that the UN's climate models have failed to take into account natural phenomena that affects climate far more than human activity.

This is more than all human activities combined can safely produce without exceeding two degrees of global warming.

Not exact matches

Although all human activity, labour and consumption no less than prayer or friendship, aim ultimately at the one good of serving God, different activities are more suited for different specks or aspects.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

The first is that our planet's oceans act as a massive watery heat - sink, and currently absorb more than 90 percent of increased atmospheric heat that are associated with human activity.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

Nevertheless, human pride being what it is, some exponents of this prophetic social gospel seemed to lay more stress on the human builders than on the activity of God in the process.

Sometimes — and this is more in accord with what has been said in this book — it has been urged that every access to divine reality (however this may be conceived) which has been opened to men and women is nothing other than the working of the Self - Expressive Activity of God which in Jesus, as we are convinced, is given focal statement in human existence.

For example, if the coordinated form of human activity involved is more complex than driving on a particular side of the road, so that in order to achieve the desired goal, different individuals need to be doing different things at different times, then the authority directing them may need some specialized knowledge in order to arrange things properly to achieve the desired end.

Even more perfectly than the human soul with its field of activity can be said to overlap the field of activity proper to the brain and through the brain the other interrelated fields of activity within the human body, so God as the soul of the universe shares a common field of activity with the universe as an all - encompassing social totality.9

There is probably no human activity calculated to add more zest to the appetite than the business of navigating through snow on skis.

Scintigraphy, which has been used for years in treating humans, reveals more accurately than any other diagnostic tool the precise location and extent of the abnormal activity.

Groundwater that has lingered in Earth's depths for more than 12,000 years is surprisingly vulnerable to modern pollution from human activities.

It's hard to think of any modern human activity that has had more of a multiplicative impact on the imagination than space exploration.

But it does mean that human activities have, more likely than not, affected the chances of such events occurring.

More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists that includes a NASA researcher has proven that air pollution from industrial activities arrived to the planet's southern pole long before any human.

When it burrows, those tentacles can touch 12 different objects every second, appearing to the human eye as no more than a pink blur of activity.

While scientists and policy experts debate the impacts of global warming, Earth's soil is releasing roughly nine times more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than all human activities combined.

More than 85 percent of those happened during a time when there were no storms or lightning, meaning that most of the fires originated from human activities.

«Larger - bodied species often need larger territories and are fewer in number than smaller - bodied species,» he explained, so they would have been more susceptible to extinction as hunting, logging, farming and other human activities took their toll.

Killer earthquakes and volcanic activity more than a million years ago, argues Mark Maslin, may have been the making of modern humans

Stingrays that interact with humans at an interactive tourism area change their normal activity patterns and interact with each other more aggressively than animals not dealing with people.

Until recently, human economic activities have been more concerned with profit than sustainability.

More than 90 percent of the scientists and climatologists surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with more than 50 percent attributing climate change primarily to human activitMore than 90 percent of the scientists and climatologists surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with more than 50 percent attributing climate change primarily to human activitmore than 50 percent attributing climate change primarily to human activities.

But spinner dolphins are exposed to human activity more often than any other cetacean in the world, the researchers say, and the humanmade noise probably isn't helping.

Spurred by human activity, the crisis is occurring faster and could extinguish more species than the gigantic asteroid strike that may have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

«There are far more human settlements and activities near the slopes of glaciated active volcanoes today than there were 10,000 years ago, so the effects could be catastrophic,» he says.

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

According to the report, cacti are under increasing pressure from human activity, with more than half of the world's 1,480 cactus species used by people.

The above notwithstanding, the world of SF and the world of «real» science do overlap to a considerable degree — more than either of them do with any other human activity, I believe.

Over the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per million).

Earthquakes caused by human activities, such as injecting pressurized wastewater from drilling back into the ground, have become almost 10 times more common than they were 20 years ago.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

The latest version, more than a year in the making, reiterates findings that global warming is unequivocal and primarily caused by humans from the burning of fossil fuels, the clearing of forests, and the disruption of agricultural activities.

For more than a decade, the husband - and - wife team has been investigating how a large protein complex called SAGA, which helps control gene activity in organisms from yeast to humans, influences developmental processes.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely - tuned way than previously assumed — and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music.

Although not all ambient noise comes from human activity, a busy interstate or a new housing development is a more persistent source of noise than intermittent natural phenomena like wind and rain, Horn said.

SAN FRANCISCO — Lights from human activity shine brightly in a collection of new images showing Earth at night more clearly than ever before.

«World Heritage sites getting hammered by human activities: Study says more than 100 natural World Heritage sites, including Yellowstone, are increasingly damaged by expanding human infrastructure and land uses.»

A new study warns that more than 100 natural World Heritage sites are being severely damaged by encroaching human activities.

Antimicrobial resistance threatens many aspects of human activity including medicine and agriculture and could lead to more deaths than cancer.

Our homes and offices account for more than one third of all greenhouse gases emitted by human activity — the bulk of it for heating in winter and air - conditioning in summer, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

These grants support more focused research and educational activities than do those described in Fischbach's announcement, addressing issues that arise «from the use of the knowledge and technologies resulting from human genetics research.»

«It's been proposed that Neanderthals depended on visual - spatial abilities and toolmaking, for survival, more so than on the social affiliation and group activities that typify the success of modern humans — and that Neanderthal brains evolved to preferentially support these visuospatial functions,» Berman explained.

However, there's a whole army of other factors that we need to be more concerned about than scientific collecting — including habitat loss, pathogens, human activities and climate change.

In their comprehensive study, which involved a search of gene activity maps as well as testing of human brain tissue, the researchers identified more than 100 enhancers which were much more active in the brain than in other tissues.

In a paper that appeared online on July 18, 2017 at Weather and Climate Extremes, the team reports that climate change attributed to human activity made the storm much more severe than would otherwise have occurred.