Sentences with phrase «which human activity»

The report is the first attempt to calculate the extent to which human activity has affected the chances of a specific weather event occurring.

determine the extent to which human activity and pollution has directly impacted on this remote region of Antarctica

The most common of these gases and thought to be the most significant greenhouse gas is water vapour but it's one on which human activity has little effect.

The author of the piece, Chriss W. Street, has indicated that Kauppinen is the author of a separate submission to Nature in 2010 that also contests the UN Climate Panel's «consensus» view on the degree to which human activity contributes to global climate change.

The Planetary Boundaries framework proposes quantitative limits for human perturbation of critical Earth system processes, and a «safe operating space» within which human activity should attempt to stay in order to avert the risk of large - scale, possibly abrupt or irreversible environmental change.

This slideshow shows how well models predict past temperature trends, and the extent to which human activity was the primary cause of warming over the last century.

In reality, the arrival of the new epoch represents not merely the further spread of human influence across the globe but a fundamental shift in the relationship between humans and the Earth system — one in which human activity now accelerates, decelerates and distorts the great cycles that make the planet a dynamic entity.

«Global Warming Expedition to prove Antarctic Ice is Melting Trapped by Ice --» Expedition leader Chris Turney: One of the purposes of the expedition was to determine the extent to which human activity and pollution has directly impacted on this remote region of Antarctica.»»

By focusing on the consequences of climate change rather than its scientific causes, some experts suggest that Mr. Nash succeeded in circumventing a divisive political debate over global warming and the extent to which human activity contributes to it.

According to the dictionary's definition, the Anthropocene is «the era of geological time during which human activity is considered to be the dominant influence on the environment, climate, and ecology of the earth.»

Anthropocene Relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as a period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.

Speechless takes its cue from current discourse on the Anthropocene, described by writer Robert Macfarlane as «the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long - term signature in the strata record.»

Her paintings allude to circumstances in which human activity threatens nature, yet the work is neither sententious nor moralistic.

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

This phenomenon, for which human activity is largely responsible, is the main factor in climate change.

As for the long - running political controversy about climate change, especially about the degree to which human activity causes it, the scientists said it tends to become relevant mainly when they are dealing with long time frames — say 30 years or more — and mostly at the top echelons of the political hierarchy.

He has said climate change is real, but that the degree to which human activity is to blame is unsettled.

Rubio questions the extent to which human activity will alter the climate, and he says any action to reduce emissions will badly harm the economy.

For years, the central objectives of climate change science were to document the phenomenon, understand the basic physical processes involved, and determine the degree to which human activity is at fault.

It holds that a principle or principles of human rights must be independent of any comprehensive telos to which all human activity ought to be directed, that is, a telos defined by reality as such and, in that sense, metaphysical.

Centuries ago the wise men of India were struck by the enslaving and inescapable character of the environment in which human activities are conducted.

Prayer, in the Christian sense, presupposes a creation in which human activities, like every other event or occurrence, have consequences and make a difference.

The most extreme risk envisioned in all climate studies is surely a runaway greenhouse effect, in which human activities cause a buildup of CO2 to a level (ca. 1400 ppm).

I regret deeply that the attacks on me now appear to have spilled over onto other scientists who have dared to question the degree to which human activities might be causing dangerous global warming, a topic that ought rightly be the subject of rigorous open debate, not personal attack.

«This limits our ability to untangle the extent to which human activities versus the natural background have altered the impacts of particles on the global radiation budget and climate, and thus hampers assessments of future climate change,» researchers wrote.

Sometimes it takes a heartbreaking video to fully grasp the scale to which some human activities are jeopardizing habitats of crucial species around the world.

The additional CO2 from fossil fuel burning and deforestation has disturbed the balance of the carbon cycle, because the natural processes that could restore the balance are too slow compared to the rates at which human activities are adding CO2 to the atmosphere.

Which human activities contribute the most emissions?

They need to know which human activities are impacting the climate and what the effect will be if they attempt to curb emissions from a particular sector.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

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.

Some, like St. Augustine, have argued that many apparently antireligious activities — including drunkenness, carousing, promiscuous sex, harsh athletic training, committed political activism, incessant material consumption, and drug addiction — actually represent deeply driven human religious longings and searching, which happen to be misdirected quests for the true religious good.

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.

And it is because of this, it is because there exists in you this ineffable synthesis of what our human thought and experience would never have dared join together in order to adore them — element and totality, the one and the many, mind and matter, the infinite and the personal; it is because of the indefinable contours which this complexity gives to your appearance and to your activity, that my heart, enamoured of cosmic reality, gives itself passionately to you.

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.

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..

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.

Except that all the the human actions which I described above to which you describe as describing religion are all also human actions that Atheists preform in their non-religion activity.

It was in this ardent zone of growth and universal recasting that all that makes man what he is today was discovered — or at least must have been rediscovered, for even those things which had long been known elsewhere achieved their definitive human value only when they were incorporated into the system of European ideas and 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.

can only occur where there exists some institutional umbrella that can protect human rights advocates and offer both political and material support for human rights activities: a church...; a press sufficiently independent so that it can report information the government would prefer not be made public and that can offer a forum for some opponents of the government; professional associations, academic and intellectual centers which are financially solvent and not directly controlled by military or government officials.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.

This to a certain degree non-official activity of the Church in the human beings of the Church under grace is an historical manifestation of the eschatological unconquerable grace which God has linked inseparably with the historical phenomenon of the Church as the primal sacrament of grace.

So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done (Gn 2:2 - 3): In establishing and blessing the Sabbath, God created «free time,» time for the activities that befit free human beings.

The debunking frame of mind is one which, first of all, recognizes that any human choice is composed of a complex mixture of motives and pressures; such is the nature of human motivation and activity.

But even in an environmental - impact statement, it is the effect of the proposed activity only upon human welfare which has legal standing.

The Crossbench peer's Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill - which is being supported by the Free Conscience campaign - would apply to the withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment, human embryo research and activity linked to preparing, supporting or performing an abortion.

It can be inferred with some probability that the human mind, at any given moment, is not drastically different in size and shape from the pattern of activity in the nervous system with which at that moment it interacts, and as this activity moves about somewhat it follows that the mind literally moves in brain and nerves, though in ways unimaginably various and intricate.