Sentences with phrase «of human industrial activity»

If he meant only that the «increase in CO2» was «all» a result of human industrial activity, then the paragraph is poorly written.

But, that's one of the hallmarks of human industrial activity: sustained emissions.

These are just a few obvious examples, but because the future Fox News pundit was talking about climate change let's consider something that is indisputable: the measured rise of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is numerically consistent with that predicted from the output of human industrial activity.

Not exact matches

The extension of Calvinism to all spheres of human activity was extremely important to a world emerging from an agrarian mediaeval economy into a commercial industrial era.

They have been going on for millions of years without much perturbation until humans began to alter the cycle through industrial activity.

The greatest human influence on the sulfur cycle comes from industrial activity, mainly the combustion of coal and oil and the smelting of sulfur - bearing metallic ores.

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.

That is why we can find the so - called technofossils or traces of human activity on the beaches, in this case the industrial waste of international companies which helps to calculate the age of the beachrock.»

Human activities, such as industrial production, transport, power generation, and wood burning emit large amounts of tiny pollutant particles containing, for example, soot and sulfate, into the atmosphere.

Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

The researchers also separated out natural sources of VSLS — such as seaweed in the ocean — and those released due to human activity — such as industrial processes — in order to determine the relative importance of each.

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.

According to the study, the encroachment of human and industrial activity can have catastrophic effects.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

Next, Doney (p. 1512) reviews how the chemistry of the oceans is changing, mostly due to human fossil fuel combustion, fertilizer use, and industrial activity.

Most scientific literature holds that the Anthropocene, the period of human activities influencing the environment, began with the industrial era in the 1700s, explains Hodder.

At present, the ocean takes up a quarter of the CO2 - released to the atmosphere by human industrial activities — with long - lasting consequences for the chemical composition of seawater and marine habitats.

Man - made include human - generated changes to the water table, including dam construction, and industrial activities involving the injection or removal of fluids from the subsurface.

There is a broad scientific consensus that human activity — including the burning of fossil fuels for transportation, heating and industrial manufacturing — is driving recent climate change.

Increases in concentrations of these gases since 1750 are due to human activities in the industrial era.

We know with certainty that the increase in CO2 concentrations since the industrial revolution is caused by human activities because the isotopes of carbon show that it comes from fossil fuel burning and the clearing of forests.

The concentration of atmospheric CO2 has increased dramatically since the Industrial Revolution (from around 280 parts per million [ppm] in preindustrial times to 401 ppm in 2015), primarily due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in land - use.

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

Human industrial activity may also prove to be visible in the geological record in the form of long - lived synthetic molecules from plastics and other products, or radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons.

Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian photographer whose many projects show the effects of human, especially industrial, activity, on the environment across the globe, in the cities as well as in the countryside.

And it may reflect more changes than we realize: recent writing on the Anthropocene period that arguably began during the Industrial Revolution highlights the significant global impact of human activities on Earth's ecosystems.

Kazma's oeuvre constitutes a kind of archive of human activity, raising fundamental questions about it in the economic, industrial, scientific, medical, social and artistic spheres.

3) In order to assert human causation, I would think the data would have to show that, for example, Rocky Mountain National Park had continued unabated to the present day the cooling trend established from approximately 1750 through 1850, while the Houston Ship Channel area exhibited the warming trend since the onset of industrial activity.

«although the oceans presently take up about one - fourth of the excess CO2 human activities put into the air, that fraction was significantly larger at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.»

Since human population and industrial activity have risen at the same time, it stands to reason that human activity is, one way or another, the cause of this observed warming.

Most of these perturbations, tied either directly or indirectly to human fossil fuel combustion, fertilizer use, and industrial activity, are projected to grow in coming decades, resulting in increasing negative impacts on ocean biota and marine resources.

You and you alone can «re-center» our national debate on issues like the unsustainability of increasing conspicuous per - human over-consumption of limited resources; the unsustainability of skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers; and the soon to become patently unsustainable, seemingly endless growth of large - scale industrial / corporate activities, now threatening to engulf the surface of the planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm.

Since the beginning of the industrial age, 30 % to 60 % of the coral reefs on the planet have disappeared because of human activity and warming oceans.

In the meantime, it gives clear insights into what scientists see happening to the planet's climate as human industrial activities, as well as land - use changes, pump increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air.

Whether the cause is human activity or natural variability — and the preponderance of evidence says it's humans — thermometer readings all around the world have risen steadily since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Rob — I'm not sure why you think the human origin of post-industrial CO2 increases is a subject of much uncertainty, since the conclusion resides in the convergence of multiple lines of evidence that include measurements of C14, C13, C12, atmospheric oxygen, volcanic activity, and records of industrial emissions.

It is vital for human and ecosystem health, the production of energy and food, industrial and commercial activities, and maintaining healthy and vibrant communities.

«There is convincing evidence that since the industrial revolution, human activities, resulting in increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and other trace constituents in the atmosphere, have become a major agent of climate change.»

But even if you choose to doubt them, it is really the first seven that, combined, point to human activities as the only explanation of rising global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution, and the subsequent climate changes (such as ice melt and sea level rise) that have occurred due to this global warming.

For about two decades, the vast majority of climate scientists have agreed that human industrial activity is forcing the planet to warm.

IPCC AR5 summarizes the scientific literature and estimates that cumulative carbon dioxide emissions related to human activities need to be limited to 1 trillion tonnes C (1000 PgC) since the beginning of the industrial revolution if we are to have a likely chance of limiting warming to 2 °C.

The enhanced Greenhouse Effect we are now measuring is a human fingerprint because the source of it is the continued emission of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, produced by industrial activity.

The oceans are currently warming because of the extra greenhouse gases that human industrial activity has added to the atmosphere.

Since the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide from human activities has created a greenhouse effect of 1.66 W per square metre worldwide.

Or a self - serving political organization that never hesitates to misrepresent the real world in favor of its remit: to blame human industrial activity for imaginary problems?

«Surface temperature reconstructions for periods prior to the industrial era are only one of multiple lines of evidence supporting the conclusion that climatic warming is occurring in response to human activities, and they are not the primary evidence.»

But although change in that vast watershed of western US and Mexico called the Great Basin is contemporaneous with the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, other human activities may have triggered the dramatic alteration.

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

Lacis expressly rejects the IPCC's use of the word a «substantial» factor, and argues: «Based on this basic input data, the relevant physics is inescapably clear that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is indeed enhancing the strength of the terrestrial greenhouse effect, and thus causing global warming to happen — all directly attributable to human industrial activity.»

Based on this basic input data, the relevant physics is inescapably clear that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is indeed enhancing the strength of the terrestrial greenhouse effect, and thus causing global warming to happen — all directly attributable to human industrial activity.