Sentences with phrase «recent human activity»

Has recent human activity actually as good as killed the planet?

It actually does require some kind of a model - not necessarily a computer model, but a model nonetheless - to jump from «X is unprecedented in Y years and due to recent human activity» to «this is folly».

They are typically relatively small fluxes of CO2, as are the sequestration of C from those reservoirs to gelogic reservoirs either as organic C or inorganic C (carbonate minerals)-- an exception being the result of recent human activity.

Once he has photographed his re-created environments — always devoid of figures but often displaying evidence of recent human activity — Demand destroys his models, further complicating the relationship between reproduction and original that his photography investigates.

Her clay vessels, coil - built by hand, resemble the plastic bottle, an object that signifies recent human activity and material culture.

Some researchers have suggested that the small population is due to recent human activity, but the new analysis suggests «it's a long - term thing,» Scally says.

First, I tested whether the evolution of heavy metal tolerance was coincident with an ancient split of A. halleri and A. lyrata, or is associated with recent human activities.

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Roughly three - quarters of human resources professionals say their workplaces discourage political activity in the office, according to a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management (Shuman resources professionals say their workplaces discourage political activity in the office, according to a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management (SHuman Resource Management (SHRM).

Too much recent theology has been one - sided in its emphasis on the historical setting of human existence, neglecting to relate in any organic way the natural foundation of man's spirit to the framework of the divine activity.

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.

However, according to Humanae Vitae 11: «The sexual activity, in which husband and wife are intimately and chastely united with one another, through which human life is transmitted, is, as the recent Council recalled, «noble and worthy.»»

Recent correspondence concerning sexuality and love draws me to argue that, surprising as it may seem, sexual activity can not by itself generate or increase human love.

It is instructive that in Fromm's recent book, The Heart of Man, its Genius for Good and Evil, he seeks to answer the criticism of his optimistic view of man.7 He traces all the sources of human evil to some factor in the developing life of the person which has become fixed, and blocks normal activity.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

Returning to the anthropological level, another recent scholar who finds impressive evidence of the spiritual quest as a fundamental human activity is Robert M. Torrance.

Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for Governor, called today upon Governor Cuomo to acknowledge the climate change is being caused by human activity, starting with the burning of fossil fuels.

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or human activities such as coal burning — are slowing down global warming.

Another recent paper shows the dramatic impact that human activity has had on top ocean predators.

Seismologists studying the recent dramatic upswing in earthquakes triggered by human activity want to clear up a few common misconceptions about the trend.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

Presenting at a recent conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in Toronto, Canada, the researchers hypothesized that the frontal lobes may be a «mastermind» that directs brain activity and allows us to do two things at once.

Recent spike of earthquakes in the central and eastern U.S. may be linked to human activity.»

Opponents of taking action on global warming will point to former Massachusetts governor and 2012 candidate for President Mitt Romney's recent statement that he accepts the scientific view held by the bulk of the world's climate scientists that human activity is contributing to global warming.

The Climate Science Special Report lays out the most recent scientific evidence of climate change, once again confirming that climate change is real, it's happening now, and human activity is the primary cause.»

In a recent study published in the December 15th issue of Human Molecular Genetics, Dr. Gangwani and his team of researchers at TTUHSC El Paso describe how mice with spinal muscular atrophy saw great improvement when the JNK3 enzyme was genetically inhibited to eliminate its activity.

In a recent study examining a long - term DNA dataset of grizzly bear activity in British Columbia, Lamb and his colleagues conclusively determined what scientists have long suspected: higher road density leads to lower grizzly bear density, a critical problem for a species still rebounding from a long period of human persecution.

5Representative works are the classic Efficient Use of Energy: A Physics Perspective (American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics, 1975) and the recent, massive, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory / International Agency collaboration, Indicators of Energy Use and Efficiency: Understanding the Link Between Energy and Human Activity (OECD / IEA 1997).

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

«It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanism, the changes in the orbit and the axis of the Earth, the solar cycle), but numerous scientific studies indicate that most of the global warming in recent decades is due to the large concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) mainly emitted due to human activity.»

«Today the Earth is still adjusting to the recent rapid rise of CO2 caused by human activities, whereas the longer - term Pliocene records document the full response of CO2 - related warming,» says Southampton's Dr Gavin Foster, co-author of the study.

Then, by comparing this ancient epigenome with that of modern humans, they identified genes whose activity had changed only in our own species during our most recent evolution.

On the negative side, the researchers found that many of the genes whose activity is unique to modern humans are linked to diseases like Alzheimer's disease, autism and schizophrenia, suggesting that these recent changes in our brain may underlie some of the psychiatric disorders that are so common in humans today.

A recent paper in Nature Geosciences by Gillet et al. examined trends in temperatures in the both Antarctic and the Arctic, and concluded that «temperature changes in both... regions can be attributed to human activity.»

For example, it appears that only recent hg19 DNA gains tend to associate with DNA losses across multiple time - periods, which is consistent with recent SINE activity in human evolution [74] following insertion into gene - rich regions that are prone to DNA loss.

Arctic sea ice in transformation: a review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity.

There is a broad scientific consensus that human activity — including the burning of fossil fuels for transportation, heating and industrial manufacturing — is driving recent climate change.

The Climategate controversy hasn't even touched upon the empirical evidence indicating that human activity is the cause of recent warming:

William Ruddiman has proposed the early anthropocene hypothesis, according to which the anthropocene era, as some people call the most recent period in the Earth's history when the activities of the human race first began to have a significant global impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems, did not begin in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Industrial Era, but dates back to 8000 years ago, due to intense farming activities of our early agrarian ancestors.

Recent reports show increased CSC activity following hypoxic exposure in breast cancer cell lines (18 — 20), but no reports have studied this rare population in primary human breast cancer samples.

Intrigued by recent findings that neuron firing rates in the regions of mouse and fly brains associated with visual processing increase during physical activity, UC Santa Barbara psychologists Barry Giesbrecht and Tom Bullock wanted to know if the same might be true for the human brain.

It is used in dating things such as bone, cloth, wood and plant fibers that were created in the relatively recent past by human activities.

What / Why: «Presented at a time when the compulsion to digitally document and share human activity has increased exponentially, this exhibition features works from deCordova's permanent collection that prefigure and inform current trends in social photography, as well as recent work by contemporary artists who utilize smartphones and social media to record the world around them.

Distinctions between theatrical tropes and task - oriented performance art, in fact, often pivot on these points, particularly when instructional score - like texts and photo documentation becomes a genre unto itself, as reflected in the somewhat recent art history of Allan Kaprow's intimate Life Art «happenings» which aestheticized normal human activity while blurring the boundaries between art and life.

And it may reflect more changes than we realize: recent writing on the Anthropocene period that arguably began during the Industrial Revolution highlights the significant global impact of human activities on Earth's ecosystems.

Frankly, the better window into contemporary art in Arizona is a trio of shipping containers transformed into galleries in the Roosevelt Row arts market in downtown Phoenix — where recent exhibitions have explored invasive species, border surveillance, and the impact of human activity on the desert.

Last week, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and 10 other leading world bodies expressed the consensus view that «there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring» and that «It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities».

According to a recent article in Eos (Doran and Zimmermann, «Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change `, Volume 90, Number 3, 2009; p. 22 - 23 — only available for AGU members — update: a public link to the article is here), about 58 % of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to 97 % of specialists surveyed.

The most recent report concluded both, that global temperatures are rising, that this is caused largely by human activities and, in addition, that for increases in global average temperature, there are projected to be major changes in ecosystem structure and function with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystems, e.g. water and food supply.

And it quotes statistician Hans von Storch (who has been quite critical of the earlier work): «it does not weaken in any way the hypothesis that recent observed warming is a result mainly of human activity».