Sentences with phrase «other than human»

This is probably why some people have to argue (so they can argue in good conscience I imagine) that there is an actual possibility that prior to a child actually being born, a woman might have been gestating something other than a human being, say like a cat or a whale or a Tyrannosaurus rex or some other such thing and thus it's always a «miracle» when a child is actually born rather than a larvae like in the movie The Fly.

Let us not pretend that there's some possibility that anything other than a human being will be the product of a human woman's pregnancy, no matter how unwanted, how disabled, how genetically or morphologically abnormal that human being will be.

By this I mean that they treat the offender as something other than a human being, and also that a willingness to use or even entertain such treatment is to compromise one's own standing as a human being.

A new paper in the journal Biodiversity Conservation suggests that anthropomorphism — the attribution of human characteristics to anything other than a human being — could become a powerful tool in promoting public support for animal conservation.

While Christy only considered the possibility that climate models are wrong, Taylor considered three possibilities: (1) the surface temperature record is biased high, (2) a factor other than human greenhouse gas emissions is causing global warming, or (3) the «assumptions about greenhouse gas theory are wrong.»

Could some factor other than human activity explain it?

There is simply no other mechanism that can explain the significantly altered climate path and the changes in the radiative forcing other than human causes.

ryland: «This suggests that factors other than human activity have an effect on global temperatures.»

The effect of the radical environmental movement's efforts to reduce fossil fuel production and use is to try to convince governments to create limits to growth where none currently exist other than human ingenuity.

Which means that all the other regional changes in the Northwest noted in the NCA — wildfires, insect outbreaks, changes in the timing of stream flow, etc. — are also largely a result of influences other than human - caused climate change.

This suggests that factors other than human activity have an effect on global temperatures.

Hello Dan X, Are there really no credible alternative theories or scientists who embrace another viewpoint other than human activity as the main cause of the rapid increase in GW?

Hi: Are there really no credible alternative theories or scientists who embrace another viewpoint other than human activity as the main cause of the rapid increase in GW?

it would be both ignorant and arrogant to rule out something other than human GHGs as a long - term driver of our climate.

Based on extensive evidence, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extend of the observational evidence, that anything other than human activity is the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.

Any warming observed prior to WWII is indicative of «global warming» (GW), but (since there were no significant human GHG emissions yet) is counterindicative of anthropogenic greenhouse warming (AGW), since something other than human GHGs caused it, raising the question: if non GH warming caused this warming, could it not also have caused the most recent extended warming period?

But before we trot out the red carpet and host our own coronation, the well being of human and other than human natural communities necessitates that we enclose appropriate ethical approaches in our «Act Now» decelerations.

So it's relatively easy to figure out how much the absolute level of warming from AGW could EVER theoretically be, based on how much warming we have seen to date and accounting for the portion of the warming that was caused by factors other than human GHGs.

He is certainly a stranger to Judith's uncertainty monster isn't he, with his firm belief there is no alternative explanation for recent warming other than human activities.

Other than human intervention,

In the course of history, I can not find any evidence of a single species other than the human species that has precipitated such multi-faceted leviathan - like circumstances.

That CO2 levels are caused by something other than human activity, or that the skeptics believe that CO2 levels are caused by something other than human activity?

Do climate models predict anything other than human CO2 release?

Do these papers address the fact that CO2 and methane will continue to enter the atmosphere through means other than human emissions?

But given what I understand to be true, that greater warming has occured than in the distant past than is currently occurring, how can we be so sure we are examining all the right 20th century events, since these earlier warmings were clearly caused by events other than human driven carbon dioxide emissions?

If CO2 levels increased by more than this then it must be due to reasons other than human activity.

I felt the need to turn to species other than the human race to tell us how to cohabit the planet, where the existence of one depends on the other or the disappearance of one species affects the other adversely.

If you are represented as other than human, people treat you as...

The solution (as long as there's a scapegoat to blame the problem on other than a human)... kill it, kill it, kill it....

If everyone did their bit and considered saving a life of an animal at a shelter, it would go a long way in helping this problem caused by nothing other than human negligence and arrogence.

Finally, the third - row seats are power reclining — and all the seats fold totally flat — in the event you need to use this massive SUV to move something other than human beings.

For where brutality is ever present, Darabont's key to unlocking immense feeling from «Shawshank» was to taking an inward, emotional approach about what it's like to have no seeming way out other than the human spirit itself.

At a press conference held prior to the screening of his new film Men, Women & Children, director Jason Reitman dispelled the notion that the film was about anything other than human connection in the digital age.

That means prior to that we weren't drinking any cow milk, we weren't drinking any bull milk, we weren't drinking any horse milk, we weren't drinking any other milk other than human mammal milk.

Contrary to popular belief, stem cells can be harvested from sources other than human embryos, such as body fat and bone marrow (16).

The SMA Foundation encourages all users to actively share feedback regarding general impressions and report any successes or failures, and in particular, if the kits are used to analyze tissue samples other than human PBMCs.

The SMA field needs all users to actively share feedback regarding general impressions and report any successes or failures, and in particular, if the kits are used to analyze tissue samples other than human PBMCs.

Comparative psychology, taken in its most usual, broad sense, refers to the study of the behavior and mental life of animals other than human beings.

Griffin's point elucidates that, when a choice demonstrates preference for something other than human life, it is not simply a case of incommensurable alternatives, but that something deeper is at play.

Healthy babies should not be routinely supplemented with any food or drink other than human milk unless medical indications for supplementation exist.

Some will be obviously pregnancy - related (the usual ones involve breastfeeding something other than a human baby or putting an animal or your baby in the oven or microwave to «cook» awhile longer), and others will be just plain weird or upsetting, like your childhood nightmares.

Only in some societies was milk other than human milk used to feed small babies.

This was done due to the shocking numbers of tragic, senseless deaths of so many babies who had been fed food other than human milk

• The younger the baby, the more likely it is that any foods other than human milk will cause food allergies.

To be sure, the church stands by the claim that the decisive manifestation of this divine word is none other than the human word of Jesus of Nazareth and thence of its own authentic proclamation.

But if Rehnquist had paid attention to the depth of the argument in the brief, it should have been clear to him that the gradation of trimesters was utterly irrelevant to the status of that small human being, for it had never been anything other than a human being through the entire length of the pregnancy.

The whole course of human history will then be as nothing — if there be no memory other than human memory, if there be nothing to which we contribute besides human memory.

I think jesus woudl be upset (given his Jewish roots and beliefs) that would be seen as anything other than a human, born to the house of David in the Jewish tradition of King David come to lead his people spiritually and or politically.

«All national inst.itutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.»

The value of everything other than human beings is the price that will be paid for it in the market.