Sentences with phrase «much impact humans»

I've read both the NIPCC report and bart's rebuttal to it and because I'm not a scientist like apparently bart and allpunsintended are I have to assume the jury is still out on how much impact humans have on Global Warming (Climate Change).

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The way I see it, though, Whole Foods employees should be worrying just as much about the impact of their fellow human beings from Amazon.

I argued that the humanity of the Crucified Jesus as the foretaste and criterion of being truly human, would be a much better and more understandable and acceptable Christian contribution to common inter-religious-ideological search for world community because the movements of renaissance in most religions and rethinking in most secular ideologies were the results of the impact of what we know of the life and death of the historical person of Jesus or of human values from it.

When I reflect on the infinite pains to which the human mind and heart will go in order to protect itself from the full impact of reality, when I recall the mordant analyses of religious belief which stem from the works of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud and, furthermore, recognize the truth of so much of what these critics of religion have had to say, when I engage in a philosophical critique of the language of theology and am constrained to admit that it is a continual attempt to say what can not properly be said and am thereby led to wonder whether its claim to cognition can possibly be valid — when I ask these questions of myself and others like them (as I can not help asking and, what is more, feel obliged to ask), is not the conclusion forced upon me that my faith is a delusion?

Instead of thinking of the environmental impact of humans as a long list of components, we get a much better picture from a synoptic approach.

The fact is that collective human choices have resulted in a world of haves and have - nots — where the impact of natural disasters and disease will very much depend on where you are born in the world.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

The author, a renowned researcher in this field for almost 50 years, addresses bacterial colonization of the newborn, protection against disease that is provided by breastfeeding, infectious agents in human milk and their impact on breastfeeding, and much more.

When so much of the Massachusetts landscape reflects the impacts of human activities, it is critical that we apply our knowledge of natural systems to maximize habitat function on our wildlife sanctuaries.

The research indicates that the domestication of animals has a much broader impact on human - animal communication than previously believed.

For example, the International Panel on Climate Change, the authoritative scientific source about the impacts of human - induced climate change, «had to simply take the projected rise for a century, divide by 100 and say, «We expect sea level to rise this much per year,»» he said.

Human impacts on land may be much greater than is obvious at first sight.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

The human impact of delaying access to flu genes is also much more stark.

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

What's more, many other human activities, from building cities to planting crops, alter albedo, and these activities have a much greater impact because they affect a far greater proportion of Earth's surface.

You won't find much overt romance in Andrew Goudie's The Human Impact of the Natural Environment.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

A new study by researchers from Brown and Tufts universities suggests that researchers have been overlooking how two key human responses to climate — how much land people choose to farm, and the number of crops they plant — will impact food production in the future.

«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.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

Although much attention has been given to the cataclysmic impact that an astrophysical event would have on human life, very little has been published around what it would take to kill the tardigrade, and wipe out life on this planet.

Human activities and land use changes that result in permanent deforestation have a much greater impact than temporary deforestation from natural disturbances, such as a fire.

«Whale sharks are under threat from human impacts of hunting and ship strike and it makes it much easier to plan for conservation if we only have to deal with neighbouring countries in each region rather than localities spread across the entire Indian Ocean.»

Due to much - intensified human impact, the delta no longer functions as a naturally expanding fluvial - coastal center.

Work is now being finalized on a much larger project around the Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda, made famousby the film Gorillas in the Mist, where McGuinness is assessing the impacts of mountain gorilla, buffalo and golden monkey on the conservation of this park and the development of surrounding human communities.

They also remind that the Mediterranean is a semi-enclosed sea with a much longer history of human impacts compared with the Atlantic.

For nearly a decade, the center had been outsourcing much of its work to SI, which assessed health risks and drafted reviews for 21 chemicals that the center was reviewing for their possible impact on human reproductive health.

It's not sleeping like humans do, but it is carrying out important processes that impact how much oil it can produce.

«Changes to precipitation patterns and sea levels are likely to have much greater human impact than the higher temperatures alone,» the report said.

Atmospheric heatwaves can have significant impacts on human health31 and attribution studies have shown that these events, and atmospheric heatwaves in general, have become much more likely as a result of anthropogenic warming32.

The field of stem cell biology has made major and continuing progress over the last few years towards achieving its much heralded aim of impacting human health.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Meanwhile the environmental situation is much worse today than that report would have us believe as the human impact is not simply limited to carbon dioxide release in the atmosphere.

The tangible human impact of this work is that when glassy carbon electrodes are successfully integrated into brain - computer interfaces developed by the CSNE, they will enable the interface to send and receive a richer set of sensorimotor data and last much longer within the body.

Of course, reducing everyone's odds for cancer to zero would be wonderful, «but there are issues that are much more pressing that have a known impact on human health, and I don't think acrylamide falls into that category,» Lichtenfeld said.

Traffic light and front - of - pack labelling will only work if they are part of much wider restrictions on claims about food content and laws compelling companies to reveal hidden ingredients that may have an impact on human health.

However, too much and constant stress over a long period of time will have a negative impact on the dopamine levels in the body, lowering its levels as well as reducing the number of dopamine receptors in the human brain.

Aasif Mandvi hits his (very odd, in fairness) role at about twice the volume and pace of anyone else, Justin Bartha barely figures, Mia Farrow is sweet enough, but doesn't make much of an impact, and Christopher Walken is interestingly restrained, adhering to normal human punctuation for the first time in recent memory, but at the same time, hiring Walken to play an average suburban dad is about like hiring Jason Statham for a film where he doesn't punch someone in the face.

The human engineer at the wheel drives towards the target at both 12mph and 25mph while sensors monitor how much the crash prevention systems slow the vehicle down before impact.

I am so happy to be here in San Francisco, and I am learning so much about caring for our pets in ways that are conscious of pet and human health, while also considering the impact on the environment.

Just as important, we have not done much to encourage more in - depth, scientifically valid research to confirm even greater benefits, including the impact on human health, an opportunity that was lost during the recent healthcare debate in Congress.

It can honestly be difficult to keep a holistic view with that much information to peruse, especially given the fact that some challenges or goals focus small («Build three coffee shops») and don't necessarily prompt the player to think about how those small goals will impact big - picture goals later on («Have 30 humans and 30 animals living in your «hood»).

If the Anthropocene is no less than the beginning of the end of the Earth's capacity to sustain human life, and neoliberal systems of (dis) order have done so much to accelerate our current state of emergency while disguising its real impact, how does one make art about a condition that is so structurally resistant to full - on exposure?

An ever increasing coastal population means that the impact of the storms on humans is much greater since so many people lose their homes and businesses.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Looking at a map of metropolitan areas and how much space they occupy, in terms of impact on the record, I wonder if they couldn't be thought of more as a human ecosystem — say on the scale of fossil reefs.

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

It doesn't have any influence on the attribution of current climate changes to human forcings, it doesn't impact the radiative properties of CO2, so really, why do you care so much that you are willing to just make up stuff?

So if the hockey stick is incorrect & climate varies wildly from natural causes, then even a «small» (as skeptics view it) input of human GHGs, would then have a much larger impact by virtue of triggering a more sensitive and wild nature.