Sentences with phrase «other than human activity»

Could some factor other than human activity explain it?

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

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?

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.

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?

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

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.

Not exact matches

The divine nature, like the divine activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling of human life has been made possible.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

In an empirical observation of human activity and life, a la Hobbes, desire seems to know no end other than death.

In fact, some would say that there is no human value or goodness unless this value pattern is exemplified in our activities; that the capacity to realize this structure of relations in our lives (to a greater extent than can the other animals) is what largely constitutes our humanity.

Sometimes — and this is more in accord with what has been said in this book — it has been urged that every access to divine reality (however this may be conceived) which has been opened to men and women is nothing other than the working of the Self - Expressive Activity of God which in Jesus, as we are convinced, is given focal statement in human existence.

Here, the idea is not that the person in authority knows better than other people, but that certain kinds of human activity require the coordinated action of many human beings, and the easiest way (often the only practical way) to get such coordination is to set up one person to give directions to others.

Even more perfectly than the human soul with its field of activity can be said to overlap the field of activity proper to the brain and through the brain the other interrelated fields of activity within the human body, so God as the soul of the universe shares a common field of activity with the universe as an all - encompassing social totality.9

The fact of evil in the world and in human experience raises serious questions for any Christian discussion, as much about human existence as about the reality and activity of God who in Christian faith is affirmed to be nothing other than «pure unbounded love.»

Scintigraphy, which has been used for years in treating humans, reveals more accurately than any other diagnostic tool the precise location and extent of the abnormal activity.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

Reacting to the various verbal attacks fired against each other by various political camps engaged in campaign activities for the Anambra governorship election, the CLO said that nothing could be so callous than people playing politics with human blood.

Next, although science may come closer to universality than any other human activity, there are distinct local variations, as scientists adapt to local constraints and approach science with ways of thinking that are influenced by local culture, and these different ways of doing science can teach us things.

The behavioral tests used here modeled one dimension of the disease — an inability to experience pleasure from normal activities — but not others, such as stress and anxiety, and probably tap into different brain mechanisms in mice than in humans, he says.

«Larger - bodied species often need larger territories and are fewer in number than smaller - bodied species,» he explained, so they would have been more susceptible to extinction as hunting, logging, farming and other human activities took their toll.

Stingrays that interact with humans at an interactive tourism area change their normal activity patterns and interact with each other more aggressively than animals not dealing with people.

But spinner dolphins are exposed to human activity more often than any other cetacean in the world, the researchers say, and the humanmade noise probably isn't helping.

The above notwithstanding, the world of SF and the world of «real» science do overlap to a considerable degree — more than either of them do with any other human activity, I believe.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

However, there's a whole army of other factors that we need to be more concerned about than scientific collecting — including habitat loss, pathogens, human activities and climate change.

In their comprehensive study, which involved a search of gene activity maps as well as testing of human brain tissue, the researchers identified more than 100 enhancers which were much more active in the brain than in other tissues.

As such the paper serves as a complement, rather than an alternative, to other methods of attributing climatic change to human activity (fossil fuel burning).

For example, silver ion - infused EbNPs with a positive surface charge (Ag - EbNP - PDADMAC) exhibit significantly higher antimicrobial activity, in terms of Ag equivalent, than other silver nanoparticles against the human pathogens E. coli and P. aeruginosa.

In one piece, Orr writes that, «pipelines are much safer than many other human activities, including «safe sex»».

This study shows that the scars of people recovering from surgery heal faster when Manuka honey is part of the post-operative process than when it's not, and other research points to medical - grade Manuka honey as a powerful antibacterial agent, one that has «bactericidal activity against antibiotic - resistant bacteria» that pose a danger to humans.

Also, you will increase your metabolism as it stimulates human growth hormones more than any other fitness activity.

Professor Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, has said: «Making music utilises a great many skills and elicits a wide range of responses, more perhaps than any other human activity.

The urgency behind this question has been imposed by science more than by any other branch of human activity; and the need of discovering a sound and generally acceptable answer, in the light of all the data, was never so pressing.

Experts agree that habitat loss, pollution, collisions with buildings and cars, and other human - led activities account for far more bird deaths than cat predation.

Immunizations not only did not prevent any infectious diseases, they caused more suffering and more deaths than has any other human activity n the entire history of medical intervention.

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Essentially, all they said is that they acknowledge that global warming is due to unspecified human activities, that it will have ecological consequences (no mention of economic consequences, other than the insinuation that taking action of global warming might threaten economic growth), and that coordinated global action is required, but that economic growth and energy security must be taken into account, and that they'll meet to talk about it again.

First, they have not come up with any plausible alternative culprit for the disruption of global climate that is being observed, for example, a culprit other than the greenhouse - gas buildups in the atmosphere that have been measured and tied beyond doubt to human activities.

Mankind it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity.

On this basis, it is impossible to draw a conclusion that there is a level of CO2 that we are in danger of reaching (from human activity) that would be detrimental to life (toxic) OTHER THAN through rapid climate or environmental changes.

For the most part, Smith hasn't had to address the climate issue back home, even though polls show that a majority of his adult constituents believe human activity is causing global warming and Texas has suffered more severe climate and weather disasters since 1980 than any other state.

How about — We must do something urgent about AGW because...... otherwise future generations will regard us as even more stupid than the people who felled the last tree on Easter Island, or the Dodo hunters, or the 19thC whalers or the Grand banks cod fishermen, or CFC manufacturers... Or any of the other examples from history of human activities damaging a common resource by overuse.

Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests into isolated patchy fragments, but causing more problems for native plant populations than for monkey species sharing the same habitat.

Latinos see climate change as a consequence of human activity at higher % than other Americans.

CO2 remains in the atmosphere longer than the other major heat - trapping gases emitted as a result of human activities.

To give one example, she says human activities are contributing to global warming, but she bridles at the IPCC consensus that humans are «largely responsible» — in other words, that more than 50 percent of global warming to date is caused by human activity.

Generating electricity through the burning of fossil fuels, in particular carbon - heavy coal, has a greater impact on the atmosphere than any other single human activity.