Sentences with phrase «oceans by humanity»

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By accounting for both CO2 and oxygen levels in the atmosphere, scientists have calculated that oceans and plants each absorb roughly one - quarter of humanity's CO2 emissions, leaving half to build up in the atmosphere.

With the ocean growing more important to humanity by the day, it has become more necessary than ever for people to educate themselves on the ocean.

The second race is a «Race for Survival» being presented by humanity as it strip mines the Pacific Ocean for fish, and the surrounding lands for development sites, minerals and forests.

That is, to claim that relatively «infinitesimal» changes in the amount of CO2 that humanity contributes to the total amount produced is not vastly overwhelmed by other factors (the Sun, volcanoes, naturally - occurring forest - and wild - fires, wild animal flatulence, oceans, etc.) is intellectually and scientifically bankrupt.

I'd say it'd be more apocalyptic (as per Dr. Venkman's «dogs and cats, living together» dictum) if the animals were migrating to environments * more * likely to result in their extinction;) Having said that, I acknowledge that a common view is that humanity is doing exactly that — not a physical migration, but an enforced anthropogenic man - handling of the entire biosphere towards a bad neighborhood in Earth's «state space», where we risk being stabbed by shadowy tipping points, mugged by run - away processes and distressed at the sight of an anoxic ocean vomiting over the local fauna.

By stowing that extra energy in their depths, oceans have spared the planet from feeling the full effects of humanity's carbon overindulgence.

His motive is expressed on page 14 with reference to the «General Obligation» of article 192 in the Law of the Sea Convention: «States have the obligation to protect and preserve the marine environment», noting that: «This obligation has great importance for the atmosphere, weather and climate, because if mankind understands and protects the oceans, it would minimize the threat to humanity posed by anthropogenic climate change.

For humanity itself, the greatest threat is the likely demise of the West Antarctic ice sheet as it is attacked from below by a warming ocean and above by increased surface melt.

Will Hobbs from the University of Tasmania and NASA's Joshua Willis have confirmed that ocean warming calculated from data collected by the HMS Challenger between 1873 — 1876 couldn't realistically be from natural variability alone, pointing strongly to humanity's role.

Readers who were previously unaware of the scope of humanity's effects on the world — on its climate, its biogeochemical cycles, the chemistry of its oceans, the colour of its sky, the flow of its rivers, the number of its species and more — may find themselves shocked by its relentless exposition.

The «unnatural» warming so far seen is however trended strongly to the alterations to the planetary surface by Humanity over the past 400 years and the rebalance towards greater kinetic induction (in its cumulative effect) is now producing observable alterations not only to the Land Surface median Temperature, but to the Ocean (vie conduction / convection) and a still unconfirmed claim of a small overall rise in Median Atmospheric Temperature, which if «true» would place the Planetary Biosphere on the «Human Population Plot» with regard to «warming».

However, a gristmill driven by a diesel generator — that is of the utmost evil and catastrophic consequences for humanity and the Earth itself will be the result... oceans will begin to boil.

The IPCC hypothesis that AGW, caused principally by human CO2 emissions, has been the primary cause of past warming and that it represents a serious potential threat to humanity or our environment is an «uncorroborated hypothesis» at this time, unless one agrees with Pielke that the recent decadal lack of warming of the atmosphere (surface plus troposphere) as well as the upper ocean despite record increase in CO2 levels has falsified it, in which case it has become a «falsified hypothesis», until such time that the falsification can be refuted with empirical evidence.