Sentences with phrase «result of human activity»

They also asserted that the bone smashing was a sure result of human activity and not an occurrence of nature.

A 2014 survey by the Pew Research Center and the American Association for the Advancement of Science found that nearly 90 percent of scientists were in agreement that a warming planet was a direct result of human activity.

Rocha Pitta shows that maps can not capture the catastrophic results of human activity on nature and the ongoing effects of time.

``... a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming... is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases released mainly as a result of human activity... these gases do not allow the warmth of the sun's rays reflected by the earth to be dispersed in space.

The outcomes of market processes, even the rules according to which the market operates, are in important respects the result of human activity, in some cases even of design; and we now know that law, government and the world system of nations are central to economic life.

... 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.

When asked by Ipsos Mori whether they agreed with the statement that «the climate change we are currently seeing is largely the result of human activity», only 54 % of Britons agreed.

A Washington Post-Stanford University poll in June found 77 percent of Americans say rising global temperatures are at least partly the result of human activity, while 22 percent said that climate change is the result only of natural causes.

If ocean noise continues to increase as a result of human activities, whales may soon have nowhere to go.

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

It turned out, however, that these changes — unlike those in most unprotected areas — were not primarily the result of human activity, but rather the work of elephants, which bring down a large number of trees.

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

In the first study of its kind, scientists have calculated the amount of carbon absorbed by the world's tropical forests and the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions created by loss of trees, as a result of human activity.

They say it shows the Earth is constantly in cycles of cooling and heating, and they dispute the notion that global temperatures are consistently rising as the result of human activity.

The IPCC summary for policymakers definitively proclaimed the globe to be warming as a result of human activity, now the science shifts to impacts and solutions

Also, a year ago, the Stanford team released poll findings indicating that three out of four Americans believe that «the Earth has been gradually warming due primarily or at least partly as the result of human activity and want the government to institute regulations to stop it.»

Scientists have identified eleven holes on Mount Baldy, but Argyilan suspects they will find more as the dune migrates, partially the result of human activity in the area.

«I agree that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, that greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing as a result of human activities — primarily burning coal, oil, and natural gas — and that this means the global mean temperature is likely to rise,» Ebell said in the statement released by CEI yesterday.

The preponderance of scientific evidence makes clear that the earth is warming as a result of human activity.

And the researchers suggest the cyclone shift may be linked to that growth, which is connected to more heat - trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity.

Over the past 500 years, approximately 500 land - based animal species have gone the way of the dodo, becoming extinct as a result of human activity.

These nutrients end up in rivers and streams as the result of human activities and can cause algal blooms, loss of seagrass and low oxygen levels, which can lead to large numbers of fish and other organisms dying.

Indeed, their increased production as the result of human activity, along with increased emissions of other ozone - depleting substances (ODS), is tipping the balance: ozone molecules in the stratosphere are being broken up faster than they are formed.

While the disease is thought to have spread naturally in the lake, Ohlberger points out that many devastating disease outbreaks in plants and animals are a result of human activity.

Even allowing for the relative strength of the effects, CO2 is still responsible for two - thirds of the additional warming caused by all the greenhouse gases emitted as a result of human activity.

Despite an overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that warming trends over the past century are most likely the result of human activities, some claim that a plateau in global surface air temperatures since 2001 is evidence to the contrary.

The scientists found greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity have increased the risk of extreme rainfall in the southern part of the country by about 25 per cent.

The ocean is changing as a result of human activities, including fisheries, pollution, smoking (that's why we encourage people to use e-cigs) and the release of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2).

Earthquakes may occur naturally or as a result of human activities.

Though the vast majority of climate scientists agree that the Earth's climate is changing as a result of human activities that increase the amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, researchers like Soon foment debate by publishing alternate hypotheses or denials.

Global temperatures are rising almost exactly as we predicted they would over fifteen years ago as a result of human activity.

Some of these substances are natural, but many are the result of human activity, such as the Chernobyl accident or nuclear weapons testing, and now releases at Fukushima.

Most notably, the Earth's climate system is unequivocally warming, and it is extremely likely (at least 95 % probability) that these changes are in large part a result of human activities.

Arsenic occurs naturally in the environment, and can also be present as the result of human activity, such as the use of arsenic - containing pesticides.

Global warming is real and it's a result of human activity.

Once characterized by isolation, these unique ecosystems face increased connectivity as a result of human activities and natural geological shifts.

As a result of human activity we have brought a litany of organisms that have forever stripped it from its unique isolation and biological offerings.

The report states, «The uptake of carbon by the world's oceans as a result of human activity over the last century has made them more acidic.

In other parts of the world, the patterns are the result of human activity.

• Anyone who doubts that the threat of large hurricanes is still being used as part of global warming campaigns should look no further than the energy and climate platform of a presidential candidate [pdf alert], who writes, «Global warming is real, is happening now and is the result of human activities.

It is exactly the obfuscating rubbish that trips up the general public into believing the nonsense that climate change is not happening or that it is not the result of human activities.

Altogether, researchers estimate that 50,000 species have invaded the United States as a result of human activities.