Sentences with phrase «rather than human activity»

Senator James Inhofe used the article as proof that climate change is caused by natural variability rather than human activity.

The Heartland Institute has been sending books, DVDs and pamphlets to science teachers across the country promoting its stance that climate change is caused by natural phenomena rather than human activities — a view rejected by nearly all climate scientists.

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Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

Surely we should talk in terms of intensity of divine Activity and fullness of human response, not in terms of «above» and «below,» «in» and «out,» «entrance,» and the like — these are mythological terms, and for our own day they are outworn rather than significantly evocative mythological terms.

«The good life can not be lived without self - control, but it is better to control a restrictive and hostile emotion such as jealousy, rather than a generous and expansive emotion such as love» (p. 239) Russell, unlike the authors of Human Sexuality, does not assume that empirical data could ever show that a particular form of sexual activity is good or bad or the development of personhood.

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.

Your editorial suggests it would be better to rebuild damaged ecosystems to incorporate human activity, rather than rewind them to...

Your editorial suggests it would be better to rebuild damaged ecosystems to incorporate human activity, rather than rewind them to how they were before we started meddling (18 May, p 3).

It was found that complex II activity significantly declined with age, per unit of mitochondria, in the cells derived from the lower rather than the upper levels, an observation not previously reported for human skin.

The Augustine committee has been asked to present an array of options in its final report, rather than endorse a single plan for NASA's future human spaceflight activities.

Emissions of CO2 by human activities, including fossil fuel burning, cement production, and gas flaring, amount to about 27 billion tonnes per year (30 billion tons)-LSB-(Marland, et al., 2006)-- The reference gives the amount of released carbon (C), rather than CO2, through 2003.].

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).

This approach shows that BOLD and field potential measures provide complementary information about human brain activity and we infer that features of the field potential that are uncorrelated with BOLD arise largely from changes in synchrony, rather than level, of neuronal activity.

As a result, humans and dogs leveraged these natural instincts in play rather than work in activities that mimicked dogs» desire (and, really, need) to hunt, forage, and chew.

The result of this is a threefold whammy: 1) unlicensed activities continue at the same rate (or increase as the human population increases); 2) a significant number of pet owners who want to be law - abiding citizens give up banned breeds, quit feeding neighborhood cats or terminate valuable breeding programs rather than operate illegally or cope with unreasonable laws and increased fees; and 3) because demand for many beloved breeds does not decline when a law is passed, people who know little about breeds or breeding move into the void to fill demand.

Rather than narrative situations, Brown has sought to make prototypical those of her thoughts and activities she felt were most fundamental to human experience.

In these images, rather than acting as a backdrop to the human activity, the artworks function as characters in the scene, silent witnesses to the drama unfolding around them.

Rather than thinking of science as a «force for good», we should think of it as an inherent human activity, like commerce.

a) atmospheric CO2 from human activity is a major bause of observed warming in the 1980's and 1990's, c) that warming is overstated due to a number of factors including solar effects and measurement skew d) the data going back 150 years is of little reliability because it is clustered so heavily in northeast america and western europe rather than being global e) the global climate has been significantly shifting over the last thousand years, over the last ten thousand years, and over the last hundred thousand years; atmospheric CO2 levels did not drive those changes, and some of them were rapid.

Where do you believe that Dr. Curry implies agreement that leading climate scientists are incompetent and should not be working, and that there is a cover - up and that the current warming is caused by an iron sun rather than increased CO2 from human activity?

Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.

The IPCC has not only asserted that global warming is occurring, but that to a large degree it is caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels rather than being a natural phenomenon.

By focusing on the consequences of climate change rather than its scientific causes, some experts suggest that Mr. Nash succeeded in circumventing a divisive political debate over global warming and the extent to which human activity contributes to it.

Some skeptics have attributed contemporary climate change to natural fluctuations in solar activity, rather than human - emitted greenhouse gases — the explanation endorsed by nearly all climate scientists, including those convened by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

You're right, & IMO, the net effect of human activity since c. AD 1950 has been to cool rather than warm the planet, although not much in either direction.

On a more positive note, federal environment minister Greg Hunt has promised that the Australian government will be «examining the cumulative effect of human activities and natural forces rather than looking at impacts in isolation».

But for the natural sciences to make human activity central to its conception of the world, rather than a distraction, would mark such a shift for real.

In a new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, three MIT scientists assert that the human influence on the climate of the Central United States is dominated by agricultural activity rather than greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Similarly, today natural climate - change is being blamed on human activity by politicians, rather than the scientific illiteracy that's CAUSED by the politicization of the scientific process as a tool for power rather than knowledge.

The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism looks at both the evidence that human activity is causing global warming and the ways that climate «skeptic» arguments can mislead by presenting only small pieces of the puzzle rather than the full picture.

These and other mercury emissions from human activities (past and present) account for at least 50 % and perhaps as much as 75 % of current, annual, global mercury emissions from all sources (including natural sources), but a large, unknown portion of those mercury emissions is due to past rather than current human activities, according to EPA estimates.