Sentences with phrase «though human influences»

Even though human influences could have serious consequences for the climate, they are physically small in relation to the climate system as a whole.

She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

Not exact matches

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

Though now out of fashion, the writings of these men have had, and continue to have, a huge influence on popular beliefs regarding how human beings «work».

On the contrary it is quite certain that his cosmology, though strongly influenced by «On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World,» was still a «free creation of the human mind.»

While I am not aware of significant discussions of this issue among process thinkers, Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, who though not directly influenced by process thought nonetheless share the relational vision, have incorporated elements of this, particularly through the use of art, in their own education process in order to stimulate the «right» brain, the intuitive and imaginative capacities of the human mind.

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

Now this tendency, through the influence of grace, is not often exhibited in matters of faith; for it would be incipient heresy, and would be contrary, if knowingly indulged, to the first element of Catholic duty; but in matters of conduct, of ritual, of discipline, of politics, of social life, in the ten thousand questions which the Church has not formally answered, even though she may have intimated her judgment, there is a constant rising of the human mind against the authority of the Church, and of superiors, and that, in proportion as each individual is removed from perfection.

Though these processes are influenced by factors including climate, vegetation and human activity, erosion is the main factor that affects the amount of carbon that ends up in rivers.

I say this in acknowledgment of the fact that though a majority of the earth's nearly six billion human beings may claim allegiance to one faith tradition or another, the influence of religion on people's lives is generally marginal, especially in the developed world.

Though I originally began my studies as a nursing major in human medicine, my lifelong passion for working with animals influenced my decision to change my major and I am currently working toward a degree in Veterinary Technology.

Even though the four main antagonists don't appear much aside from several fixed story sequences, their presence permeates each region with oppression and danger, exemplified by an army of brainwashed soldiers or zombified humans under a drug's influence.

Though Light is best known for his Women of Industry series, he has devoted himself to evoking the human - like nature of animals that have influenced human civilization such as birds, pigs, giraffes and dog included in this show.

pat - «Similarly many environmental activists believe that man's influence is a form of sin and nature (Gaea) will soon strike back...» You can phrase the position of a fictitious group any way you want of course, without rebuttal, because they don't really exist, though there are people who fit the description — especially if by «many» you mean more than three — but the more accurate reality is most of the human beings you would lump under the rubric «environmentalist» would more accurately be described as believing that short - sighted and greedy human attempts at total control and domination and complete disregard for the healthof the environment have gotten us out of balance with what was an interlocking web of balanced and dynamic systems, and would appear to have unbalanced many of those systems as well, including the still poorly understood cycles of climate; or weather, as we laymen call it.

The evidence that global warming is occurring, and furthermore is due in large part to human influences (though perhaps other factors also play a role), is much stronger than the evidence I have personally seen that Inhofe exists.

Another, of course, is that the science illuminating the extent of the human influence on climate is not «settled» for many specific, and important, points, even though the basic case for rising risks from rising concentrations of greenhouse gases is robust enough to merit a strong response, according to a host of experts (even if you take the intergovernmental panel's findings with a grain of salt).

The IPCC process is a major effort to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of climate science, though as is evident even from the Summary — which, due to the necessity for brevity, tends to downplay uncertainties — there are still many difficult obstacles and uncertainties to overcome in determining the influence of human activities on the climate.»

This all also illustrates why I trust the process of climate science (as I wrote recently in an otherwise pretty lousy post) and why I have faith in the established, though still imprecise, picture of a building human influence on an inherently turbulent climate.

Even though such transitory influences as day and night or seasonal variations in photosynthesis cause clearly visible swings in the curve, the 30 percent drop between 1929 and 1932 caused not a ripple: empirical scientific evidence that the human contribution is in fact less than a fart in a hurricane, as Dr. Hertzberg says.

«So you end up with the conclusion that human influence made a particular winter snow event worse, even though it is also — at the same time — reducing the risk of extreme winter snow events.»

It is likely, though, that the main reason why these authors chose to aggrandize the influence of methane emissions on climate is because it is not currently acceptable to claim that human activity plays only a small role (< 25 %) in temperature variations.

Even though many findings indicate a grim outlook for plant and animal life, including humans, if the current trends continue, the au - thors consistently note ways in which students can have a positive impact by making personal choices and influencing public policy.

In this case, though, that would be to allow Level 6 to ignore the table's main preoccupation (the extent of human influence) and set off into territory that the rest of the table leaves untouched (the extent of global warming).