Sentences with phrase «not human activity»

We compiled UE names comprehensively from the following 12 lists: 1992 statement from the Science and Environmental Policy Project (46 names), 1995 Leipzig Declaration (80 names), 2002 letter to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien (30 names), 2003 letter to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin (46 names), 2006 letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (61 names), 2007 letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon (100 names), 2007 TV film The Great Global Warming Swindle interviewees (17 names), NIPCC: 2008 Heartland Institute document «Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate,» ed.
Senator James Inhofe used this article as proof that climate change is caused by natural variability, not human activity.
«Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate: Summary for Policymakers of the Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change» (PDF), The Heartland Institute, 2008.
Singer is the editor, and a contributor to the «NIPCC» report, titled «Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate» (PDF).
However, what has been the cause of fierce debate is whether or not human activity is currently causing a warming of the world.
Maybe you are misunderstanding hysteresis thinking we're still coming out of the LIA, just overshooting the «recovery» by a huge margin for some reason you haven't yet explained (as long as it's not human activity, anything will do).
In 2008, the organization published a report titled «Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate.»
The 2008 NIPCC document was titled Nature, Not Human Activity Rules the Climate: Summary for Policymakers of the Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel of Climate Change and was published by The Heartland Institute.
To highlight such deficiencies in the IPCC's AR4, in 2008 SEPP partnered with The Heartland Institute to produce Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate, a summary of research for policymakers that has been widely distributed and translated into six languages.
Heartland distributed approximately 100,000 copies of Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate in 2008, and the booklet has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Abdussamatov is the same scientist who claimed that current warm temperatures on Mars proved that the sun - and not human activity - is behind the global warming trend on Earth, a theory debunked on realclimate.org.
CNN Moderator Mr. President, Governor Romney, we don't really know whether or not human activity has caused any substantial warming, but we do know from climate scientists that if whoever gets elected does not do something very drastic and costly about it we'll all die a horrible death.
«In point of fact, the hypothesis that solar variability and not human activity is warming the oceans goes a long way to explain the puzzling idea that the Earth's surface may be warming while the atmosphere is not.
The orthodox organized religion of global warming and its disastrous consequences for our freedom of speech, freedom of mobility and our right to remain outside of the system, needs to be questioned on the foundational basis that the phenomenon is solar - system wide and it is mainly caused by the natural evolution of the sun and not human activity.
«Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.»
The data prove a close correlation between climate patterns and solar activity — not human activity — over the last few hundred years.
If the answer is no, the next question is whether or not human activity can meaningfully avert this change outside of the normal variation.
Some candidates acknowledge that Earth's climate has changed in recent decades but insist that natural forces — not human activity — are responsible.
To be sure a «debate» over whether or not human activity is altering the climate still rages, but it is not a clear - headed objective debate about the science among scientists actually working in the relevant fields, it's a debate about the science and its impact on human society in the court of public opinion.
If it is not human activity that is causing global warming (or greatly contributing to it), then why is it happening?
Dr. Sami Solanki — director and scientific member at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany, who argues that changes in the Sun's state, not human activity, may be the principal cause of global warming: «The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures.»
Whatever caused that, it was not human activity.
Despite decades of data to the contrary, the theory is linked to the mistaken belief that the sun is driving climate change, not human activity.
Through a fortunate circumstance, we were able to persuade the Heartland Institute (Chicago) to publish this Overview report as «Nature, not Human Activities, Rules the Climate;» it has since been translated into 5 languages.
«More specifically, on the climate - energy issue, [Republican Senator Chuck] Hagel can point to increasing evidence that nature rules the climate — and always has — not human activities.
Heartland has done similar outreach with its other teaching materials, like the 2008 DVD Unstoppable Solar Cycles: Rethinking Global Warming, which argues that climate change is driven by natural solar cycles, not human activities.
Martin Durkin, a British television producer, put together a brilliant documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle that presented compelling evidence that the cause of climate change was not human activities, but solar radiation.

Not exact matches

Once that vision snapped into focus, Plank saw an opportunity not just to be a collector of human activity data but also to be the central processor that turns that data — regardless of whose device or app collected it — into useful insights.
Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»
Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.
The president of Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, recently claimed he is not smart enough to know whether human activity — i.e. the fossil fuel industry — causes climate change.
First, it came to be believed that «work» (this activity of exploiting the natural resources of the world for the satisfaction of human wants and the attitude towards the world that went with it) was not only typical of mankind but was our proper attitude and occupation.
But apart from all this, and in spite of the fact that «work» and the satisfaction of wants has usually engaged the greater part of the attention of mankind, there is another form of activity, peculiar to human beings, that does not suffer from the defects inherent in «work» and the satisfaction of wants: «play.»
As Zmirak writes, Röpke «centered his economics in the dignity of the human person, who lives not alone but as part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.»
Like many pleasurable activities that enhance and celebrate the human condition, it is best done in moderation and responsibly, not unlike drinking alcohol.
The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).
This co-operative activity does not make the action of God remote but rather as direct and immediate as communion between God and human nature can be.
But we maintain, on the contrary, that we know the Jesus of history very well, even if we do not have a precise and photographic account of his day - by - day activities; and the unique claim of Christianity is that in and by those events in the actual realm of historical happenedness, God is revealed — revealed, of course, in and under the conditions of history and human life, but revealed nonetheless.
If God is really going to care about human activities, don't you think he'd intervene in any war zone to bring it to a halt before he'd take an interest in a GAME?
Human learning is not so much an activity in culture as an inevitable and omnipresent effect of culture.
Such an awareness does not deny a telos to the history of life, but it does remove its fulfillment from the realm of mere human activity, whether economic, political, or otherwise.
Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..
If you don't believe in a God (s) then all religious activity is merely human activity to which Atheists are just as prone to preform as well.
can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.
The finite human mind can not comprehend God's infinite mystery, but it can have some awareness of God, reading the signs of His presence and activity in the world.
The separation of various realms of human endeavor and activity common to Western individualism does not fit in with the organic, interconnected worldview informed by Russian Orthodox spirituality.
In other words, economics as a human activity is not ethically neutral and must be structured and governed in an ethical manner; that is, in accordance with the highest ends of man.»
In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.
Yet, though the absolute future is not in human hands, precisely its hopeful expectation becomes the driving power in man's cultural activities: the Christian hopes through creating culture and vice versa.
Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.
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