In written comments to the Congressional investigators, however, Dr. Mahoney defended the program, saying government climate reports would include information on the potential effects
on humans and nature.
The CET data for the period indicate a distinct climate shift of some 0.35 degrees centigrade on a 50 year basis, but rather more on a decadal basis, so that well documented era can usefully be our benchmark for temperature comparisons, whilst demonstrating the usefulness of a decadal time scale in determining a change in the climate that is «noticeable» and has an impact
on humans and nature.
Today, we have to assume that the risks of negative impacts of climate change
on humans and nature are larger than just a few years ago
«Today, we have to assume that the risks of negative impacts of climate change
on humans and nature are larger than just a few years ago,» says Hans - Martin Füssel from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK)
The reason we care about that is because that's ultimately what causes some of the largest impacts
on humans and nature and so it's what people care about and what people are therefore willing to spend money on to try to avoid.
Climate changes have had widespread impacts
on humans and nature
There are huge problems with getting unbiased measures of extreme events — especially events linked to actual impacts
on humans and nature.
Not exact matches
Overall, the truce was a heartening case study in the
nature of
human beings
and their capacity to wage war
on one another.
We believed that the relationship between natural capital, or what
nature provides for free,
and production could be understood only if the corporations
and foundations that focused
on development embraced the idea that
nature and human well - being are inseparable.
It also didn't help that I brought in a new team to heavily focus
on human elements such as the health
and well - being of communities that depend upon
nature.
On Psych Pedia, Steven Parton, an author
and student of
human nature, explains how complaining not only alters your brain for the worse but also has serious negative repercussions for your mental health.
«This knowledge of
human nature and its overlapping impact
on trading gives them strategic advantage in building greater wealth through leverage.»
These three brands have tapped into something deeper in all of us with their spot -
on video advertising campaigns that, respectively, inspire our love of
nature and adventure, our need for
human connection
and the desire for creative thought
and expression.
The machine learning
nature of RankBrain presumably means that the system gets smarter
and more sophisticated by building
on what it already knows
and making connections without
human assistance.
«We make a big deal about the controversial
nature of our business
and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles
on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological study of
human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.
Once you make these qualities into a cornerstone of your hiring, you can smile at the fads
and fancy scoring systems, knowing that your business is being built
on the one foundation that never changes —
human nature.
In a fascinating post
on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of
human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our
nature,
and any attempt to put people
on Mars will require overcoming serious social
and political problems, such as:
Rather than ruminating
on your weaknesses or talking up your strengths, your best bet is probably to be your own good friend
and simply accept your flawed
human nature, forgiving yourself your errors.
«The hand
and writing things — that's just
human nature,» says Edoardo de Martin, director of the Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre, which in February set up shop
on two sprawling floors covering 3.5 acres of the former Eaton's
and Sears flagship.
But despite the widespread
nature of this problem, many of these companies still rely
on outdated pen
and paper scheduling books which are both time - consuming to manage
and vulnerable to
human error.
Steve W, Martin is the founder of the Heavy Hitter sales training program, the author of the «Heavy Hitter» series of books
on the
human nature of enterprise sales,
and USC Faculty member.
They show,
on every page, that not only is it possible to succeed by appealing to the good side of
human nature, but that the resulting success is easier to achieve
and more satisfying, far outdistancing the outcome of «take - the - money -
and - run» approaches.
Its
human nature to always be
on the lookout for something newer
and better,
and unfortunately we have a tendency to associate the two together in our thinking that technology can provide the perfect answer to all of life's problems.
The snowball method focus
on human nature and is designed to keep you motivated to pay of your debt.
When the catena of kaleidoscopic identities is open - ended, the meaningfulness of universal
human nature and thus of everything predicated
on that — including universal
human rights — becomes vanishingly small.
But it is one thing to state that all
human beings have some access to God's law within
and through
human nature, quite another to expect natural law theories based
on reason alone to persuade others about contested moral issues in a context where such theories are stripped of their foundations in God as creator, lawgiver,
and judge.
The modern project of controlling
nature is founded
on the belief that technological innovation improves the
human condition
and should be encouraged rather than controlled.
«The eighteenth - century moral philosophers... inherited a set of moral injunctions
on the one hand
and a conception of
human nature on the other which had been expressly designed to be discrepant with each other....
Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based
on a flawed understanding of innate
human nature and a fallacious belief in
humans beings as blank slates.
Contact with reality» which is to say, the actual operation of the legal system
and its impact
on society» is more likely to confront academics with the immutable truths of
human nature than endless theorizing restrained only by the politically correct predilections of one's colleagues.
There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real,
human,
and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary
on place, displacement, the state of
nature,
and the techno - forces of the modern world
and modern government, solidly American thoughts
on law, property, justice,
and keeping your word,
and so forth
and so
on.
Jefferson said some critical things about religion
and human nature - that were spot
on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group of people to the point that he wanted them gone.
Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (
and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of
human beings as naturally «free
and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by
nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region,
and so
on.
And while it's an overstatement to narrate conversion in terms of a change in nature — Abram's becoming Abraham doesn't imperil the integrity of his human nature; nor still Sarai's becoming Sarah, or Jacob's Israel, Saul's Paul, and so ever on — equally slippery is gross understatement, or intimating that nothing of metaphysical interest happens upon conversi
And while it's an overstatement to narrate conversion in terms of a change in
nature — Abram's becoming Abraham doesn't imperil the integrity of his
human nature; nor still Sarai's becoming Sarah, or Jacob's Israel, Saul's Paul,
and so ever on — equally slippery is gross understatement, or intimating that nothing of metaphysical interest happens upon conversi
and so ever
on — equally slippery is gross understatement, or intimating that nothing of metaphysical interest happens upon conversion.
Those questions involve the
nature of the PRC regime; the doctrine
and canon law of the Church; the impact of such an agreement
on Vatican diplomacy in promoting
human rights;
and the Church's twenty - first - century mission in China.
Forasmuch as each man is a part of the
human race,
and human nature is something social,
and has for a great
and natural good, the power also of friendship;
on this account God willed to create all men out of one, in order that they might be held in their society not only by likeness of kind, but also by bond of kindred.
In truth, the factors that motivated the successes of these horror - subgenre entries into the marketplace could be applied to another dominant form of visual entertainment focused
on suspense, moodiness, thinly veiled sexual references,
and the darkest side of
human nature; I'm speaking, of course, of the soap opera.
Building
on Phelps» argument that the marketplace permits expression of «the better part of our
human nature,» I suggest that the discovery mentioned by Phelps
and described above is a discerning of,
and submission to, an underlying reality.
And thus it has been ever since: All of us must «come down to the level adopted by God himself in his Incarnation — the level of poverty, crib, flight...» Yet in lowering ourselves to the lowliness that God himself assumes in taking on a human nature, we remain who we are: Some are intellectually gifted and rich in the world's goods; others are impoverished in various wa
And thus it has been ever since: All of us must «come down to the level adopted by God himself in his Incarnation — the level of poverty, crib, flight...» Yet in lowering ourselves to the lowliness that God himself assumes in taking
on a
human nature, we remain who we are: Some are intellectually gifted
and rich in the world's goods; others are impoverished in various wa
and rich in the world's goods; others are impoverished in various ways.
It is believed that the Mayas upset the balance between
humans and nature, although the fall of their civilization probably corresponded to «a network of interaction in which any difficulty could have had repercussions
on the whole» (Fonseca Zamora, 505).
Assuming it was Christianity, it ameliorated many of the harsh realities of
human existence, such as your own death, the death of a loved one, injustice, feelings of being at the mercy of the forces of
nature,
and so
on, gave you answers to questions about life,
and so
on.
This essay focuses
on the
nature of self - interest,
and that is a different question than whether self - interest is the only possible end of
human action.
That is, we must establish a new concept based
on a balance between these two ideas, thereby achieving an interpretation of the harmonious relationship that is aspired to between
human being
and the rest of
nature.
In 1841, defending African men
on trial for rebelling against slavetraders who had abducted them, John Quincy Adams said: «In the Declaration of Independence, the Laws of
Nature are announced
and appealed to as identical with the laws of
Nature's God»
and as the foundation of all obligatory
human laws.»
One warning
on the use of the terms is in order: theologically the term, creation, does not refer only to the
nature, but the whole creation,
human and otherwise.
The emphasis has characteristically been
on «a theology of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity
and existence of divine beings, divine activity in history
and nature, the purpose
and destiny of
human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»
Throughout his life, these essays
on Judaism
and the Jews provided Kristol with a forum both familiar
and provocative enough for exploring his thoughts
on religion, society,
and human nature as a whole.
The first expression of gnosticism hid in the spiritual
nature of the
human person
and focused
on meditation
and sacrifice.
This is not based
on some outdated caricature but
on what Genesis reveals about the
nature and inter-personality of the first
human couple.
We found some interesting comments
on the
nature of
human beings
and history in Whitehead,
and there were obvious anthropological implications of his theology
and his cosmology.