Sentences with phrase «result of human action»

Does it matter if they are natural or the result of human action?

It means they do not explicitly take a stance on whether the climate is changing as a result of human action or not in the abstract.

Pope Francis took a strong stand on anthropogenic climate change Monday, telling a gathering of diplomats in the Vatican that global warming is a result of human action.

Textiles are a site of mediation: the expressive folds of garments and loin cloth are most legible against the orderly creases in the red hangings, and both are the result of human action: the act of folding laundry, the act of hands being clenched in despair.

Scientists estimate that at least 99 out of 100 species extinctions in the world today are the result of human action.

Because the species has been reported in Washington state, just 70 miles from the Canadian border, the researchers speculate that the species was brought into Canada as a result of human actions.

But most is the result of human actions, in the form of sulphate aerosols from burning fuels.

Over the years Thater's work has also shed light on the complexities of animal subjectivity and transformed our understanding of the natural world and the threats it faces as a result of human actions.

al can not prove concusively that the earth is warming as a direct result of human actions... and it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt the data used for al gore's hockey stick chart, most of the «record temperaures», and much of the other basis for the warmist culture has been manupilated and / or cherry picked....

Extreme weather in 2013 was largely the result of human actions, a new report from the United Nations has revealed.

Future emissions will be the result of human actions.

Nothing you have said has anything to do with the truth of the statement you are attacking: «Future emissions will be the result of human actions.

Not exact matches

His action spared much of the harm that some countries still face as result of the devastating effects of lead on human health.

However, in financial markets, the actions of humans and machines (artificial intelligence) do impact market results.

The essence of all religions is to be good and do good but sometimes people get carried away by human frailty that results in undesirable actions.

In that sense, the coming into existence of any new human person is the result of the action of the man and the woman: they consent that the man's initiative should find a fruitful response in the woman.

In a way, this does not constitute an exception: it is still the physical action of a human that brings about a physical result.

For example a large and politically powerful portion of the worlds largest energy consumer denying not only the fact that climate change is happening, but that it even can happen as a result of the actions of humans.

Fifthly, the Eucharist as action is given an imperative quality in that it results in a «sending out» or a mission received by the worshipers, which they are to carry on in their daily life of witness and work in the world of human affairs.

Accordingly, the social sciences may be expected to play an increasingly important role in liberal learning, as it becomes ever more evident that the conditions of human existence are not simply imposed by fate, nor the results of the interplay of blind, impersonal forces, but the consequences of deliberale human action.

But if death results from the human action of injecting or ingesting lethal medication, then someone can be held culpable.

To avoid facing up to this reality we argue that these conditions are exceptional, temporary, the result of personal inadequacy, necessary for national security or simply a reflection of «human nature» — the prime excuse for escaping responsibility and avoiding action.

The state is the climactic moment in Hegel's philosophy of objective Spirit and his Philosophy of Right.14 Rationality and freedom both achieve their peak within the concrete structures of human society in the state, which exists as a result of the actions of individual finite spirits and is in virtue of this the result of the movement of the Spirit in history.

Oord takes Wesley's concept of God as Spirit and explains how God as provider of initial aims is not responsible for the evil that results from human action because God does not have the control that humans have over human bodies.

Indeed, human action is simply the latest result of God's action in evolving this world.4 Over vast stretches of time a spectacular adventure has been taking place on earth.

Of course there are sleazoids out there, and of course humans are very good at rationalizing actions whose results will be bad for the rest of us, but I honestly believe that the majority of people in the political world are acting out of a reasonably sincere desire to improve thingOf course there are sleazoids out there, and of course humans are very good at rationalizing actions whose results will be bad for the rest of us, but I honestly believe that the majority of people in the political world are acting out of a reasonably sincere desire to improve thingof course humans are very good at rationalizing actions whose results will be bad for the rest of us, but I honestly believe that the majority of people in the political world are acting out of a reasonably sincere desire to improve thingof us, but I honestly believe that the majority of people in the political world are acting out of a reasonably sincere desire to improve thingof people in the political world are acting out of a reasonably sincere desire to improve thingof a reasonably sincere desire to improve things.

The action was in a bid to ensure sanity within the metropolis as the activities of the hawkers and the traders on the shoulders of the road and pavements impede human and vehicular movement, as well as result in the creation of huge waste along the streets.

«The role of inappropriate human action in the spread of pathogens and the resulting high numbers of colony losses needs to be brought into the fore of management and policy decisions if we are to reduce colony losses to acceptable levels.»

Thanks to the study of past mistakes, and of the results of natural and human - induced processes, we can better anticipate and understand the consequences of our actions, and exert more control.

Applying colloidal silver to human subjects has been done in a large number of cases with astonishingly successful results... it has the advantage of being rapidly fatal to microbes without toxic action on its host.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

X-Men's action takes place in the near future, when the United States Senate is debating a bill that will require all mutants (human beings who possess special powers as a result of DNA mutations) to register with the government.

The action of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided takes place in 2029, a couple of years after the events of Human Revolution and the infamous «Aug Incident» in Panchaea that resulted in the deaths of millions at the hands of those who had installed augmentations.

Other examples have made the error of using this heightened, artificial system to replicate human characteristics, with the result that perfectly fetching actors invariably emerge resembling action - figures of themselves.

The result is not a moral inquiry into human action but rather a compelling meditation on the nature of being itself.

And while Hornung does give readers technical and even logical reasons for why everything happens in the novel, there isn't a thorough enough exploration of the complexity of human emotion that results from our actions.

Eight children and four adults are displaced as a result of one individual's depraved actions and disregard for human life.

Any action that claims to be in the name of furthering animal protection but which results, directly or indirectly, in real or threatened suffering, pain, and / or taking of human or animal life is totally antithetical to this ethic of compassion that guides our actions for a more humane world.

It's the need of human brain to create a consistency in action and result.

Those of us steeped in the vagaries of even the most rigorous art theory will be forgiven for finding the dry precision of these categories somewhat refreshing: recorded information must have communicatory intent, otherwise it is likely a form of embedded information, which is any object or other durable result of action: «the spider makes its web, the bird builds a nest, the human being makes tools, utensils, and other artifacts.»

Lynda Benglis is an American sculptor and visual artist, considered as a pioneer of a form of abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action, creating sculptures that eschew minimalist reserve in favor of bold colors, sensual lines, and lyrical references to the human body.

A pioneer of a form of abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action — poured latex and foam, cinched metal, dripped wax — Benglis has created sculptures that eschew minimalist reserve in favor of bold colors, sensual lines, and lyrical references to the human body.

«OPHELIA» was an architectural, interdisciplinary performance, presented as a video sculpture evoking questions of anthropocentric attitudes and actions, which are resulting in the human destruction of the biosphere.

Gutai paintings were the result of a surface being heavily manipulated by human presence, in which the body is used as brush or mark - making device, resulting in a hybrid object somewhere between the act of painting and the action of the body.

Perhaps this «Conference on Planetary Emergencies» will result in something other than yet another extensive production of rhetorical flourishes and other forms of ever so lyrical «chin music» that we have heard for so long and come to see as nothing more than a litany of unending substitutes for what is needed in our time: action on the real threats to human and environmental health.

At the same time, though, this week saw rare agreement among libertarian and some environmental groups and forest ecologists on at least one point: that the destruction in the fire zones was the clear result of much more straightforward and real - time human actions — both the way we treat forests and where and how we build communities (not to mention arson, of course).

Human Rights Watch today released the results of a four - month investigation of government and army actions in Ethiopia, relying in part on the satellite images.

CAGW or Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the acronym used (mostly by those that don't support taking immediate action on climate change) for the theory (or collection of hypotheses) that attribute most of the observed modern warming to human activities and warn that continuing similar activities (mostly emitting CO2) could result in warming that is dangerous to both civilization and a number of ecosystems.

Those main conclusions are that climate is changing in ways unusual against the backdrop of natural variability; that human activities are responsible for most of this unusual change; that significant harm to human well - being is already occurring as a result; and that far larger --- perhaps catastrophic — damages will ensue if serious remedial action is not started soon.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change