Sentences with phrase «unprecedented human effect»

(«Anthropocene» is the proposed name for our current geological era, characterized by the unprecedented human effect on the global environment.)

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Such a concerted campaign to use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. — Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause.24

Better instruments and techniques have brought an unprecedented level of precision to these analyses, allowing researchers to zoom in on ever narrower timescales relevant for understanding climatic effects on human populations.

The earth and its ecological processes are changing at unprecedented rates due to human activity; the effects of these changes are uncertain.

These facts help explain why, in spite of the Earth's air temperature increasing to a level that the IPCC claims is unprecedented in the the past millennium or more, a recent study by Randall et al. (2013) found that the 14 % extra carbon dioxide fertilization caused by human emissions between 1982 and 2010 caused an average worldwide increase in vegetation foliage by 11 % after adjusting the data for precipitation effects.

On the other hand, if by some chance and what ends up happening is totally independent of human activity, because it turns out after all that CO2 from fossil fuels is magically transparent to infrared and has no effect on ocean pH, unlike regular CO2, say, but coincidentally big pieces of the ice sheets melt and temperature goes up 7 C in the next couple of centuries and weather patterns change and large unprecedented extreme events happen with incerasing frequency, and coincidentally all the reefs and shellfish die and the ocean becomes a rancid puddle, that could be unfortunate.

The cumulative effect of environmental threats like climate change, ocean acidification and overfishing, brings the world's interconnected ocean close to a phase of extinction of marine species that is «globally significant» and unprecedented in human history, an international panel of marine scientists states.

Vincentrj # 28 you are unclear re the division of your opinions / inferences between the 3 basic sub-topics (1) heat is entering the oceans due to radiative imbalance due to humans burning carbon fuels (2) the heat rate coupled with its estimated duration (based on its cause) will make it within a few decades become unprecedented during the last several thousand years and same for the surface temperature rise that will be required to stop it (3) the effects on flora & fauna will be highly negative even within this century and more so for centuries and millenia thereafter, in particular the human species which has softened much and expects much more since the days when a mammoth tusk through the groin was met with «well Og's had it, press on».

The latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released on Sunday night, is both sweeping in scope and staggering for its unprecedented details on the impacts of global climate change to date, as well as potential future effects on human and natural systems.