Sentences with phrase «through human activities»

«The percentage of atmospheric methane produced through human activities remains poorly understood.

Regarding your second question, the paper of Frank et al agrees with my paper in many points, except for the argument on the global warming caused by emissions of carbon dioxide through human activities.

In page 196 of the Stern Review, which you sited later, it says «Over the past two centuries, around 2000 Gt CO2 (Gt = billion tonnes) have been released into the atmosphere through human activities (mainly from burning fossil fuels and land - use changes).

In my recent op - ed for The Hill examining the Obama administration's estimation of the social cost of carbon (SCC)-- a measure of how much future damage is purportedly going to be caused by each ton of carbon dioxide that is emitted through human activities — I identified two major problems with their measure.

Other potential causes of climate change include the depletion of stratospheric ozone in recent decades, again through human activities, and global changes in the surface reflectivity — or albedo — of the planet, as we modify the patterns of vegetation that cover the land.

The contribution to global dust emission of desertification through human activities is uncertain: estimates vary from 50 % (Tegen et al., 1996; Mahowald et al., 2004) to less than 10 % (Tegen et al., 2004) to insignificant values (Ginoux et al., 2001; Prospero et al., 2002).

From NASA Goddard via the OCO - 2 Satellite Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas released to the atmosphere through human activities.

CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through human activities.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is reporting that the concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane, the two most important greenhouse gases released through human activities, rose in 2008.

I think it is well established that natural GHGs have an impact on climate, and increasing these through human activities would very likely also have an impact.

Her continued research with her students and two local universities, Universidad del Valle and Universidad de San Carlos in Lake Atitlan, has provided the quantification and improved understanding of biogeochemical process ecosystems that are being exposed to increasing nutrient inputs through human activities.

On top of this apparent expansion, there was genuine growth in the problem due to such factors as pollution and accidental species dispersal through human activities.

Although it is not possible to quantify exactly how many speciation events have been caused through human activities, the impact is potentially considerable, the study states.

«Today, we are facing rising carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere through human activities, and the amount of oxygen in the ocean may drop correspondingly in the face of rising seawater temperatures,» Lyons said.

«The prospect of «artificially» gaining novel species through human activities is unlikely to elicit the feeling that it can offset losses of «natural» species.

Rather, it is Paul's way of saying what we have been saying in this chapter: The workplace, whatever it may be, may become the scene of God's being glorified through human activity.

What matters here is that the total witness found in the Gospels, as well as in the epistles of Paul, John, and others, is to an activity of God in human existence and through a human activity, through which «newness of life» has been known; God has been seen as sheer Love - in - action, and human existence has been given meaning and value as a potential agency for divine Love in the world and in human affairs.

In The Sacred Canopy Berger defines religion as «the establishment, through human activity, of an all - embracing sacred order, that is, of a sacred cosmos that will be capable of maintaining itself in the ever - present face of chaos.

Hence the notion of an ideal of human society, which is to be realized through human activity, is wanting; there can be no analogy here to the Greek idea of the State.

Updated NASA space probes have discovered an artificial barrier around Earth created through human activity — showing we are not only responsible for shaping the environment on land, but that we are now having an impact on space too.

Opening May 6 Vita Vitale: Brings together contemporary artists from Austria, Canada, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Romania, Switzerland, UK, USA, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan — a presentation spanning the borders of language, cultural heritage, and geography — to raise awareness about our environment and the global transformation of the planet through human activity.

In concert, her works give generous form to fundamental questions about the ways the world is made meaningful through human activity.

His exploration of the communal role of art and everyday actions as art recalls Joseph Beuys's notion of social sculpture (art's potential to transform society through human activity with language, thought, action, and objects).

In a nutshell, climate change occurs when long - term weather patterns are altered — for example, through human activity.

Ok — lets generalize then - one group is saying that there is a significant amount of damage being done to the biosphere through human activity to warrant concern - this group is made up of atmospheric scientists, biologists, physicists, oceanographers, Nasa climate scientists, National Science Academies, WMO etc

They believe the study supports their view that carbon emissions produced through human activity continue to warm the Earth far beyond what the planet can handle naturally.

The changes brought about through human activity will influence and are influencing regional weather patterns.

«What was surprising was just how slow the process of carbon accumulation and the development of peatland soils actually is, but when we disturb these systems through human activity, carbon dioxide is released very quickly,» said Daniel Murdiyarso, Principal Scientist at CIFOR and co-author of the report.

Not exact matches

The Trump administration has cited criminal activity such as human smuggling and drug trafficking as reasons to crack down on the border, but Trump himself has appeared preoccupied with a «caravan» of central American migrants, some of whom intended to travel through Mexico to the US border and either seek asylum or cross the border undetected.

To be specific, a human being or higher - order animal organism is an ongoing subject of experience in and through its dominant subsociety of occasions; but the coordination therewith required to sustain the flow of consciousness can only be achieved through the collaboration and coordination of millions of sub-fields of activity, subordinate layers of social order, within the organism.

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is achieved through the transformation of human life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings in order to effect wholeness.

Yet, though the absolute future is not in human hands, precisely its hopeful expectation becomes the driving power in man's cultural activities: the Christian hopes through creating culture and vice versa.

Yet the basic certainties stand sure; they concern the dynamic reality who is God, God's pervasive action in the world, God's self - manifestation through the whole range of creation, God's focal self - expression in Jesus Christ, the effecting of God's purpose through loving activity in the world and in human existence, and the assurance that our human life is not an end in itself but finds its fulfillment through reception into the divine life.

Through the two hemispheres of the human brain, each making distinctive contributions to human activity, a fresh way is provided for comprehending the traditional tension between faith and reason, ecstasy and ethics, eros and agape.

The divine nature, like the divine activity, must then be grasped as nothing other than the «pure unbounded Love» which in Jesus was vividly manifested, as he has been responded to and as through him a vivid and decisive enabling of human life has been made possible.

The fact of Jesus Christ, therefore, is a total fact, with a unitary quality which makes it include and express (a) a human life which was remembered, (b) a vital experience of salvation which was enjoyed, and (c) the activity of God that was in, through, with, and behind this totality.

This assertion is not meant to imply that religion is either false or ultimately nothing more than the fabrication of human minds — indeed, Berger argues in other writings that the transcendent seems to break through humanly constructed worlds, as it were, from the outside, However, the social scientist must recognize the degree to which religion, like all symbol systems, involves human activity.

It was through the practice of agricultural activities that humans learned to relate to fellow - beings and nature and to order the course of their life.

That is, the potential for human transformation that God, the «Father», unilaterally made available through Jesus Christ, the «Son», can not become a reality without the continuous energizing activity of this distinct, equally divine, third person of the Trinity.

Kant opened the door to radically nonmetaphysical ways of thinking of God through his emphasis on the creative activity of the human mind.

We can go further and say that under human limitations we can mediate the grace of God through the spirit and activities of resistance to evil, of mercy and reconciliation in the human community.

Do we mean to identify such human works as the creation of justice through the state with the activity of God?

For if this possibility is excluded on a priori grounds, the experience must be interpreted another way: as an unwarranted enthusiasm, as the presence of human love in community, as the activity of God mediated through the community's memory of Jesus, or what have you.

The faith in God is supremely acted out in worship; and for a Christian loyal to the Christian community that worship is of «God the Father,» manifested in what through the Self - Expression (and for us supremely in the event of Jesus Christ) God has done, is doing, and will do in the creation, and given response through the working of the Holy Spirit, enabling the world and humans within it to say their Amen to God's initiating activity.

Through this positive transcendence of private property, the object of man's activity again becomes a human object.

The human body is designed, by evolutionary survival needs through the millennia, for vigorous physical activity.

What distinguishes the structure of existence in Jesus» situation from that of the contemporary Christian can best be broached, Cobb suggests, through an analysis of the pronoun «I.» This «I,» we are told, is to be identified with both reason and the passions as the two dominant modes which have always characterized human psychic activity.

Confined within the geometrically restricted surface of the globe, which is steadily reduced as their own radius of activity increases, the human particles do not merely multiply in numbers at an increasing rate, but through contact with one another automatically develop around themselves an ever denser tangle of economic and social relationships.

The book suggests ways that Muslims may liberalize Islam through what she calls «operation ijtihad,» an ambitious initiative that would empower more Muslim women economically, align Islamic human rights codes with those of the modern world, reform radio and television outlets, create a less militant paradigm for the relationship between mosque and state, incorporate more democracy into the Muslim world and allow for engagement in interfaith activity.