Sentences with phrase «small human impact»

While environmental activists and some politicians claim «the debate is over» and call for immediate action to reduce man - made greenhouse gas emissions, others say the science points to only a very small human impact — too small to warrant concern — and the costs of trying to prevent global warming far exceed the benefits.

Not exact matches

Speaking of cards, businesspeople get a lot of prefabricated ones and what - not, so small gestures that create real human connections can have an outsized impact.

They are often faster, smaller and more affordable than humans — meaning they will have a tremendous impact on the way companies do business in the future.

Jackie Breslin, director of human capital services at professional employer organization TriNet, says the policy will have mixed impact on startups that will differ from the impact on small businesses in the city.

Presented «Birth Interventions: Impact on Normal Breastfeeding,»» Normal Parameters of Human Milk Production: Pregnancy Through Postweaning» and «Placenta to Pizza: Normal Diet for Small Humans.»

The team studied the impacts of sulphur emitted by ships using current marine fuels, which produce air pollution particles that are small enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs and are considered harmful to human health.

Urbanisation is good for sustainability, because it reduces population growth and concentrates the overall human impact on the land in a smaller area.

«Until now, the focus has mainly been on conserving small parts of a reef in marine protected areas,» said Prof Bellwood,» - we're talking about broader approaches to change the relationship between humans and coral reefs to reduce human impacts across the whole ecosystem.»

Researchers studied the Cayman reefs, which are 80 miles south of Cuba and surrounded by deep ocean water, in part because of their remoteness and negligible impact from a small nearby human population, Frazer said.

Malinski's team has developed unique methods and systems of measurements using nanosensors, which are about 1,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, to track the impacts of Vitamin D3 on single endothelial cells, a vital regulatory component of the cardiovascular system.

These structures of carbon may be tiny — a nanotube's diameter is about 10,000 times smaller than a human hair — but their impact on science and technology has been enormous.

Scientists at the University of York have discovered that very small chemical changes to dietary flavonoids cause very large effects when the plant natural products are tested for their impact on the human immune system.

In an unpublished report to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the researchers say they found no acute or immediate impacts on human health, though they warn that the samples were small and that they could not say anything about possible long - term effects.

The small, stumpy Y chromosome — possessed by male mammals but not females, and often shrugged off as doing little more than determining the sex of a developing fetus — may impact human biology in a big way.

Dr Sturmey continued: «This is a small study, which involved only one IVF clinic, but we believe it is the first to examine the impact of a mother's weight on the development and nutrition of human eggs and early stages embryos.

«It really highlights that just a small difference in the regulatory regions of human DNA — even ones that don't really make a gene, per se, but help to control genes — can have a big impact on how the brain is built, and ultimately how it functions,» she said.

These species were introduced by people at different stages in the island's human history and became invasive, negatively impacting wildlife populations and island food security for the small human population.

Small changes in such things as temperature, salinity, nutrient availability, or sediment load, whether natural or human - induced, can have wide - ranging impacts.

[emphasis added] Bast: «We believe that climate has warmed in the second half of the 20th Century, we believe that there is probably a measurable human impact on climate but it's probably very small, we think that natural forces probably overwhelm any impact that human activity can have, that computer models are too unreliable to forecast what the future might hold for climate and finally that a modest amount of warming is probably going to be, on net, beneficial both to human beings and the ecosystem.

UNLV is commemorating World AIDS Day this December by recognizing the efforts of professors across multiple disciplines who are investigating the disease from the smallest building blocks of human genomes to its cross-continental impact on various communities.

According to the scientists, these results show that although the gene variants — which make individual humans different from each other — in general have a small impact on disease development, the gene switches in which they reside can play a major role.

«This is the first time that we have looked at the impact of large amounts of cacao in doses as small as a regular - sized chocolate bar in humans over short or long periods of time, and are encouraged by the findings,» says Lee S. Berk, DrPH, a researcher involved in the presentation.

Although the biochemical differences may seem small, it can have a major impact on how the human digestive system processes the food.

However, many humans in our community do not understand the issues surrounding feral cats or the viability and large - and small - scale positive impacts of TNR programs.

It can honestly be difficult to keep a holistic view with that much information to peruse, especially given the fact that some challenges or goals focus small («Build three coffee shops») and don't necessarily prompt the player to think about how those small goals will impact big - picture goals later on («Have 30 humans and 30 animals living in your «hood»).

In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

In 50 years, human impacts on ocean acidification will be twice as large — still smaller than natural variability, but more significant.

So if the hockey stick is incorrect & climate varies wildly from natural causes, then even a «small» (as skeptics view it) input of human GHGs, would then have a much larger impact by virtue of triggering a more sensitive and wild nature.

More specifically, the sustainability movement is quickly learning that «Green Teams» and small numbers of sustainability professionals alone will be insufficient to «turn the ship» fast enough or far enough to effectively reverse the impacts humans are having on the planet.

As for the ethics of all of this, Donald A. Brown of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar emissions based on the level of certainty that is already established on the impacts of those emissions — most of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused gas buildup in the atmosphere.

Conservative think tanks that once championed geoengineering as easier and cheaper than cutting emissions have now all aligned with the view that the human impact on climate is so small that we don't even have to worry about it.

DouglasJBender: From the little I have read, the relative impact of human activity, and CO2 overall, in comparison with natural processes that produce CO2, and in comparison with OTHER so - called «greenhouse gases», is so small as to be laughable.

From the little I have read, the relative impact of human activity, and CO2 overall, in comparison with natural processes that produce CO2, and in comparison with OTHER so - called «greenhouse gases», is so small as to be laughable.

Trained and inspired her Dad's values of human power and small resource impact on the earth, she lives car - free in the converted garage right along the bike path.

The changes are too small to have an impact on human health, but are of interest to the study of climate change and carbon dioxide.

«The human impact on global climate is small, and any warming that may occur as a result of human carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on global temperatures, the cryosphere (ice - covered areas), hydrosphere (oceans, lakes, and rivers), or weather.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Bill Hare told the Network: «1.5 °C is a safer limit than 2 °C, but 1.5 °C will still have a lot of negative impacts on both natural and human systems, specifically in tropical regions and small island states.

World Health Organization and British government - sponsored global impact studies indicate that, relative to other factors, global warming's impact on key determinants of human and environmental well - being should be small through 2085 even under the warmest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scenario.

With this confirmation, one could assume that all warming since 1850 was due to human CO2 emissions, but then the logical conclusion is cast in concrete science - CO2's impact is shrinking towards zero, as observed, and likely will have even a smaller global warming impact in the future.

Given the range of natural processes and human activities that could impact the coasts of small islands in the future, without more and better empirical monitoring the role of climate change - related processes on small islands may continue to be difficult to identify and quantify.

Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.

The four areas not covered here (forestry, water resources, ecosystems and human health) are smaller impact sectors.

Alex Epstein claimed, in a Forbes article, that health risks related to the release of mercury by coal fired power plants were a «myth» while the «truth» is that «Shutting down coal power will make electricity more expensive and threaten human health, while the impact on mercury exposure would be so small that it will have no observable effect.»

A more sober reality, though, is that whatever slight impact humans might have on the climate, it is too small to measure — a point made in a study just published by Swiss researchers in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews (November 2005).

Neither do I doubt that the overwhelming majority of climatologists is agreed that the current warming period is mostly due to human impact,» he also states that «-LSB-...] this majority consensus is far from unanimous,» and that «there is a small community of sceptical researchers that remains extremely active.»

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

, full (or accelerated) equity ownership, transportability (local conditions can change adversely over time), extremely efficient use of resources (when did mindless wastefulness become normalized in the US), real innovation in affordable architecture (not green McMansions), the beginning of the end wage slavery, reduced impact on the environment thru smaller human lifestyle footprint, and a great antidote to a predatory lending system that is beyond accountability.

However, both population and GDP per capita experienced explosive growth, especially after ∼ 1950, and the product of these two growths — total human impact — has grown from relatively small to dominant in the Earth System.