Sentences with phrase «to human activity»

But when asked by Sen. Bob Corker (R - TN) if human activity has contributed to climate change, Tillerson said that «the increase in the greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are having an effect,» and that «our ability to predict that effect is very limited.»

That damage has been caused by human activity.

Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

It's an emergency surgical intervention meant to undo damage caused by human activity both in the oceans and on dry land, and it has been shown to work — bringing dead reef sections back from the edge in just a few years.

Once that vision snapped into focus, Plank saw an opportunity not just to be a collector of human activity data but also to be the central processor that turns that data — regardless of whose device or app collected it — into useful insights.

Asked on Sunday to clarify a statement he made last month that carbon dioxide — emitted from fossil fuel power plants — is not a primary contributor to climate change, Pruitt said «human activities contribute to that change in some measure.»

At his Senate confirmation hearing, he stated that that «science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity in some manner impacts that change.

This is a familiar dodge - emphasizing uncertainty about the precise amount of humanity's contribution while ignoring the broad scientific consensus that human activities are largely responsible for dangerous warming of our planet and that action is urgently needed before it is too late.

Fears of carbon emissions from human activity have the rest of the developed (and much of the developing) world taking steps to move away from oil.

Frankly, most industries, indeed most human activities, are harmful to the environment, so the question for the public is what are we willing to condone for our own comfort and well being.

Trump and several of his cabinet members deny the consensus among climate scientists that carbon dioxide from human activity is the primary cause of global warming.

Trump told the New York Times in an interview that he thinks there is «some connectivity» between human activity and global warming, despite previously describing climate change as a hoax.

It commits rich and poor nations to rein in rising carbon levels and is an attempt to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from human activity this century.

Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.

We use technology to augment the human activities.»

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

We also recognize that human activity contributes to global warming.

But the wildfires that scorched vast swaths of the US this year can scarcely be described as natural disasters, since human activities exacerbated them at every step.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.

«I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,» he told CNBC.

Around 97 million sharks died because of human activity in 2010, according to research by Boris Worm, a professor and marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.

«In handling common stocks, as in most other fields of human activity, success depends on a combination of hard work, intelligence and honesty» Phil Fisher

The president of Kinder Morgan Canada, Ian Anderson, recently claimed he is not smart enough to know whether human activity — i.e. the fossil fuel industry — causes climate change.

In fact, there are thousands of well - credentialed scientists who dissent in whole or in part from the thesis that human activity is causing disastrous global warming.

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

Speaking eloquently about the need to protect endangered species, Francis mounts this impassioned plea: «The great majority become extinct for reasons related to human activity.

If a Republican candidate would say, — yes even if a messiah is coming, people had been saying that for 2000 years, therefore, we are all obliged to preserve the planet for future generations and human activities do excessively cause global warming.

This belief, that human activity ought to be directed towards promoting what John Locke called «the advantages and conveniences of life,» and that the human mind ought to concern itself exclusively with gathering together and putting in order the sort of knowledge this enterprise demanded — useful knowledge — is a moral belief, that is, it is a belief about how we ought to spend our lives.

As with most human activities, as our knowledge of evolution and genetics increased, dog breeding improved and exploded in the 1900s.

Present human activity, in other words, reflects a decision about one's place as an individual in the wider world.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

Like Weber, Berger adopts an interpretive approach to social life, emphasizing the meaningful character of human activity.

Thus, for instance, the self - conscious freedom of human activity is made possible by the extremely complex order that it is privileged to appropriate, including the conditions which support life on this earth and the complexity of the human body.

«The economist... considers how the distribution of human activities affects the satisfaction of human wants, the wants being taken for granted» (MDS 103).

It is almost certain now that human activities are contributing to a rise in planetary temperatures.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

We are made male and female, man and woman, and attempts to blur distinctions under the seemingly innocuous term «gender» are really attempts to assert that sex should be seen as an autonomous human activity, something which has noother meaning than what the individual wishes to bestow upon it.

If God is really going to care about human activities, don't you think he'd intervene in any war zone to bring it to a halt before he'd take an interest in a GAME?

Change in worship, as in any other human activity, is inevitable.

I understand the Dogma aspect of it is observable evidence for something is king however, that in no way shape or form changes that various activity that Atheists preform which which reflect the human activity that people of faith preform.

Such an awareness does not deny a telos to the history of life, but it does remove its fulfillment from the realm of mere human activity, whether economic, political, or otherwise.

Other social sciences, concentrating on certain limited kinds of human activities, together afford a more detailed picture of man's culture and social organization.

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..

Lord Jesus, you who are the Saviour of our human activity because you bring us a motive for acting, and the Saviour of our human pain because you endow it with a life - giving value: be also the Saviour of our human unity by compelling us to repudiate all our pettiness and, relying on you, to venture forth on to the uncharted ocean of charity.

If you don't believe in a God (s) then all religious activity is merely human activity to which Atheists are just as prone to preform as well.

Indeed, a religion seeps into all human activities.

Within the Islamic code, which provides guidance for all human activities, the distinction between worship and dealings is made for convenience in the exposition of Islam.