Sentences with phrase «over all human activity»

The real goal is total control over all human activity.

Oh, and give up the fiction that atmospheric CO2 is the only important factor in climate variability, the climate models that assume that it is, and the idea that we can «adjust the thermostat of the Earth» by giving the government, any government, taxing and regulatory authority over every human activity with a «carbon signature»

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As climate change and global warming open up the Arctic to greater human and commercial activity, international interest in accessing and exploiting the region's economic potential has risen dramatically over the past decade.

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.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

Orthodoxy is being able not only to repeat the same teachings but also to show their relevance to the new context.2 Other individuals, on the other hand, interpret religious beliefs as merely expressions of the human community's search for some kind of meaning, an accumulated source of information built up over the years as the community reflected on its life and activities.

Kuyperianism stresses not only the narrowly soteriological Calvinism of the «tulip» (Synod of Dort) doctrines, but also the sovereign lordship of Jesus Christ over all spheres of human activity.

«44 Yet over against human activity, the role of nature stands out as the focus of the agricultural parables of Jesus.

Dr. Kaza applauds Dr. Paul O. Ingram's enthusiasm for Buddhist - Christian dialogue on the critical topic concerning the terrible cumulative impacts on the planet's air and water, landforms and ecosystems and their devastation as an outcome of human activity over the recent past.

In its essence, it has gone back to what it was when I first revolted against the old social order; a refusal to admit the existence of destiny an extension of the ethical impulse from the restricted individual and family sphere to the whole domain of human activity, a need for effective brotherhood, an affirmation of the superiority of the human person over all the economic and social mechanisms which oppress him.

But his control over the universe was regarded as quite limited; other gods and goddesses were free to do pretty much as they pleased in the particular realms of nature or human activity over which they held jurisdiction.

The State ensures the progress in fulfilling the People's Will by subduing the individual's will to the Law, the Law to the Consensus of the majority of the People and by ensuring equity - the equality of All human activities before the law, thus allowing for the Benefit of any Activity to be the only argument giving it Priority over another.

«We cook what we eat: this is the exclusively human activity,» Herculano - Houzel writes, «one that allowed us to jump over the energetic wall that still curbs the evolution of all other species and put us on a different evolutionary path from all other animals.»

They agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that human activity had caused most of Earth's warming over the second half of the 20th century.

However, the study points out that continued warming from human activities would overwhelm those weather patterns over time to further increase melting.

Back in the lab, they will analyze the mosaics to see how the reefs are changing over time, and how the variation of ocean conditions and human activities impact each reef.

Ammonia and sulphur emissions have increased considerably over the past decades as a result of human activities.

These include the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and foods grown with pesticides, the use of animals in research, whether climate change is mostly due to human activity, and whether humans have evolved over time.

The hurricane is spinning over waters that have warmed in the last century as a result of human activity.

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.

And achieving any stabilization target — whether 2 degrees C of warming or 450 ppm or 1,000 gigatons of carbon added to the atmosphere by human activity — will require at least an 80 percent cut in emissions from peak levels by the end of this century and, ultimately, zero emissions over the long term.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

«The dolphins are exposed to these human activities over 80 % of the time, when they should be resting.»

Each year, CO2 emissions from human activity pour just over 6 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

The scientists looked at the so - called biogenic fluxes or flow of the three greenhouse gases on land that were caused by human activities over the last three decades and subtracted out emissions that existed «naturally» during pre-industrial times.

«Additionally, we learned that the climate fluctuates naturally over the last 11,000 years and would have led to cooling today in the absence of human activity.»

Over the last few centuries, the ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.

Over the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per milliOver the past 250 years, human activities such as fossil fuel burning have raised the atmospheric CO2 concentration by more than 40 % over its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per milliover its preindustrial level of 280 ppm (parts per million).

The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of human activity.

A new study titled Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary, released Friday in the journal Science, is the first to quantitatively show that human effects on mammal body size predates their migration out of Africa and that size selective extinction is a hallmark of human activities and not the norm in mammal evolution.

Over the past 150 years human activities have released increasing quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

To track the birds» activity patterns, the researchers caught 142 of the animals by walking around on the tundra and tossing nets over them — the birds aren't afraid of humans — and glued a radio transmitter to each, the size of a small bean.

According to the lecturer Emilia Gutiérrez, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the UB, «the data from these trees that grow in heights over 2,000 metres represents the global changes, since their growth is not influenced by the effects of the local human activity (wood cutting, industry).»

Changes in society, marked by industrialization, have had a significant impact on the physical activity of humans, who have become increasingly sedentary over the years.

Over the past 200 years, rapidly increasing human activity has seriously altered flow conditions of the Nile.

Undertaking research in the Parc National des E?crins, the long - running study investigates the development of human activity over the last 8,000 years at high altitude in the Southern Alps.

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

37 - percentage point gap over whether climate change is mostly caused by human activity — 87 % of AAAS scientists say it is, while 50 % of the public does.

An exhaustive review of archaeological data from the last 30 years provides details of how the world's landscapes have been shaped by repeated human activity over many thousands of years.

The sensors and cognitive technologies work in concert, to register and interpret «multimodal» human behavior through multiple activities over an extended duration.

Over a long enough period of time, the increased carbon burial could help offset a small fraction of carbon emitted by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, says study coauthor Antje

Over many decades lead (Pb) has been released into the atmosphere due to human activities, such as combustion of leaded fuel.

Eliminating clouds from the dimming equation now leaves little doubt that human activity, in the form of a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions over the same half - century period, has entrenched China in a foggy haze that absorbs and deflects the sun's rays.

Over the past several years, scientists have succeeded in tracking with increasing confidence the portion of climate change that is tied directly to human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels.

The Institute comprises the research activities of over 30 Jenner Investigators who head leading research groups spanning human and veterinary vaccine research and development.

In a February 2013 paper in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Kerr and colleagues proposed that much like the meditators could control activity in the PCC, mindfulness practitioners may gain enhanced control over sensory cortical alpha rhythms.

Based on fundamental physics and math, we can quantify the amount of warming human activity is causing, and verify that we're responsible for essentially all of the global warming over the past 3 decades.

To elucidate changes in human brain activity evoked by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), sub - and suprathreshold rTMS (4 Hz, 10 s) over the left primary sensorimotor cortex (M1 / S1)

Not surprisingly, a storm has broken out over research saying human activities are not the main factor behind climate change.