Sentences with phrase «of human activity in»

Christidis, N., P.A. Stott, and S. Brown, 2011: The role of human activity in the recent warming of extremely warm daytime temperatures.

The model will be used to predict both the monthly and the cumulative effects of human activity in the region - all agriculture, transportation, energy, and industry - related decisions - over the next 20 years.

A study of coverage of the recent United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report finds that many mainstream media outlets amplified the marginal viewpoints of those who doubt the role of human activity in warming the planet, even though the report itself reflects that the climate science community is more certain than ever that humans are the major driver of climate change.

(Intact forest landscapes were defined as areas larger than 500 square kilometers with no signs of human activity in Landsat imagery).

This alone is sufficient to give me the impression that nothing about the role of human activity in warming can be determined unequivocally at present.

In response to charges by the UCS that the administration has «consistently sought to undermine the public's understanding of the view held by the vast majority of climate scientists,» Marburger stresses that Bush has «clearly acknowledged the role of human activity in increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.»

The goal is to promote a serious campaign discussion of the role of human activity in global warming.

These chemicals are released by a wide variety of human activity in the industrial world, from driving cars to treating sewage.

Christidis, N., P. A. Stott, and S. J. Brown, 2011: The role of human activity in the recent warming of extremely warm daytime temperatures.

It also saw record - low Antarctic sea ice for much of the year, though scientists are still working to determine the role of human activity in the region's sea ice changes.

Ostrich Check out actual facts of human activity in NWT & tundra.

Otherwise we're simply monitoring the effects of human activity in our neighborhoods, without any reference to the overall picture, about which we presently know damn little.

But to them, we offer the reminder that paleoclimate evidence comprises only one of many independent lines of evidence indicating a primary role of human activity in modern climate change.

They include: Portrait Photography, a genre that has largely replaced painted portraits; Pictorialism (fl.1885 - 1915) a type of camera art in which the photographer manipulates a regular photo in order to create an «artistic» image; Fashion Photography (1880 - present) a type of photography devoted to the promotion of clothing, shoes, perfume and other branded goods; Documentary Photography (1860 - present), a type of sharp - focus camerawork that captures a moment of reality, so as to present a message about what is happening in the world; and Street Photography (1900 - present), the art of capturing chance interactions of human activity in urban areas.

The artist's photographs suggest evidence of human activity in the design and articulation of parks and other green areas in the city.

Though the scale of human activity in these areas is not enormous, the impact of scandalously shortsighted growth is realized most destructively in these remote places.

I didn't expect to hear the arrogant position that art justifies interference with the simple joys of human activity in a plaza.

Today's young people, as they move into adulthood, will face momentous issues of responding to environmental degradation, climate change and the role of human activity in causing or exacerbating global warming.

Huge uncertainties make it difficult to predict the magnitude of consequences of human activity in the deep ocean.

Our Toxic World I ponder all this one night while sitting on my roof in San Francisco, where I have a great view of the bay and the extraordinary hive of human activity in the city spread out below, much of it dependent on chemicals that have shown up inside me.

Two more Republicans who have publically denied the role of human activity in climate change — Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — have assumed leadership of two influential subcommittees of the Senate commerce, science and transportation committee.

«These are precisely the locations and moments when partisan differences over the role of human activity in global warming may resonate most,» adds Bohr.

In particular, Cave 2, of the eight rock shelters on the site, has yielded thousands of insect remains as well as some the oldest preserved evidence of human activity in North America.

The study is the first to differentiate between the impact of human activity in the Amazon — such as deforestation or changes in land use — and the impact of climate change to quantify the carbon - storing potential of new forests.

Scientists have identified eleven holes on Mount Baldy, but Argyilan suspects they will find more as the dune migrates, partially the result of human activity in the area.

Two small settlements were found in the northern part of the bay, providing evidence of human activity in a region that has historically been considered uninhabited.

The lake and adjacent bog record some 8,000 years of human activity in the vicinity, from the advent of farming millennia ago to the industrial revolution, and remains largely unchanged throughout its history But in the last 50 years, «everything changes,» Swindles says.

The information is being sought as Schneiderman's office investigates whether the company played down the impact of human activity in climate change.

Even some Christians have declared that «salvation history» — the record of God's redemptive dealings with men — can not be rightly embraced in «world history,» including the course of all human activity in its manifold expressions.

Around 97 million sharks died because of human activity in 2010, according to research by Boris Worm, a professor and marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

CINAR was thus formulated with explicit recognition that effective management of human activities in the northeast region requires understanding how these activities interact with each other and with other processes that affect the ecosystem, including climate.

The team's results demonstrate the importance of including a realistic irrigation parameterization in climate studies to improve the process - level understanding on the role of human activities in modulating land - air - cloud interactions and regional climate.

There have also been scientific advances in in the detection and attribution of human activities in extreme climate and weather events.

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Roughly three - quarters of human resources professionals say their workplaces discourage political activity in the office, according to a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management (Shuman resources professionals say their workplaces discourage political activity in the office, according to a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHuman Resource Management (SHRM).

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

More common and larger - scale cyber-attacks (from Sony pictures to Spanish renewable energy companies) are yet another example of this unprecedented «communication» flow; just as growth of the dark web has allowed for more effective connections in illegal activities — drug trade, human trafficking, and the like.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

Specifically, the program will include: hosting of the entrepreneurial team in INTRASOFT premises, business and technology focused guidance and consulting compatible with the team's activities, offered by INTRASOFT staff, as well as business communication services and specialist consultancy services (on administration, legal and financial issues and human resources management).

These tools are most useful for traders because they allow us to look at price activity in an objective way (without the human error that is associated with other types of forecasts).

His 30,000 - foot view examines wealth management in the context of human behavior — a complement to the pragmatic, short - term, and money - centric model that drives much investor activity today.

The CORE will investigate allegations of human rights abuses linked to Canadian corporate activity abroad, and will seek to assist wherever possible in collaboratively resolving disputes or conflicts between impacted communities and Canadian companies.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

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In fact, there are thousands of well - credentialed scientists who dissent in whole or in part from the thesis that human activity is causing disastrous global warminIn fact, there are thousands of well - credentialed scientists who dissent in whole or in part from the thesis that human activity is causing disastrous global warminin whole or in part from the thesis that human activity is causing disastrous global warminin part from the thesis that human activity is causing disastrous global warming.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

It is in these activities that human beings have believed themselves to enjoy a freedom and an illumination that the satisfaction of wants can never supply.

This belief, that human activity ought to be directed towards promoting what John Locke called «the advantages and conveniences of life,» and that the human mind ought to concern itself exclusively with gathering together and putting in order the sort of knowledge this enterprise demanded — useful knowledge — is a moral belief, that is, it is a belief about how we ought to spend our lives.

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.»

As with most human activities, as our knowledge of evolution and genetics increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s.