Sentences with phrase «years by natural processes»

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«As each natural disaster goes by, we hone our processes already in place so we can react quicker and faster the next time this happens,» said Pete Capel, a 26 - year Home Depot veteran and merchandising executive in charge of the hurricane command center.

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

Remarkable and significant as is the emergence of self - conscious persons by natural processes from the original «hot big bang» from which the universe has expanded over the last 10 - 20 thousand million years, this must not be allowed to obscure another fact about humanity, namely its relatively recent arrival in the universe, even on a time - scale of the history of the Earth.

You laugh at the Supernatural, even though scientists have calculated the odds of life forming by natural processes to be estimated less than 1 chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power — But you find nothing wrong with believing that billions of years full of random mutations would result in the impossible.

«The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct,» Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson has warned, «is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

Through collecting and reworking many of his previously published articles, Ford will attempt in this new book to formulate the requisite complementary natural theology for Whitehead's cosmology in historical conversation with, and in dialectical opposition to, a number of contrasting perspectives on creativity, temporality, immutability, theodicy, and technical (internal) problems in process metaphysics put forth by Robert Neville, Norris Clarke, Donald Sherburne, and other colleagues over the years.

If, on the other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process of random mutation and natural selection by which all living beings have arisen by chance from single - celled organisms over 100's of millions of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.

You will find a host of articles that describe in detail the process by which the great forests of the Cretaceous Period (circa 145 - 65 million years ago) slowly develop into coal and how sea life slowly developed into oil and natural gas.

Partners who feel supported throughout the birth process by a doula who believes in their important role and who has had a natural birth and breastfed for one year.

Background Over millions and millions of years, all of the different species have come to look and act the way they do through a process called evolution by natural selection.

3 Last year a team of scientists led by Kurt Zenz House, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, proposed something they call engineered weathering, inspired by a natural process in which slightly acidic freshwater is neutralized by exposure to alkalizing minerals.

Tans initially expected February to be the first month of the year above 400 ppm, but predicting that threshold is tricky because CO2 concentrations depend both on emissions and natural ecosystem processes, which can be influenced by climate phenomena like the El Nino Southern Oscillation cycle, he said.

One of these T cell subsets is comprised of the CD1d - reactive invariant natural killer T cells, and over the years we have studied the development, homeostasis, activation and regulation of function of these cells, as well as their specificity and the pathways leading to the processing and presentation of antigens by CD1d.

Developed only in the past four years, the CRISPR technique exploits a natural process used by ordinary bacteria to defend against invasive viruses.

Natural variability is primarily controlled by exchange of heat between the ocean and the atmosphere, but it is an extremely complex process and if we want to develop better near - term predictive skills — which is looking not at what's going to happen in the next three months but what's going to happen between the next year and 10 years or 20 years or so — if we want to expand our understanding there, we have to understand natural variability better than we doNatural variability is primarily controlled by exchange of heat between the ocean and the atmosphere, but it is an extremely complex process and if we want to develop better near - term predictive skills — which is looking not at what's going to happen in the next three months but what's going to happen between the next year and 10 years or 20 years or so — if we want to expand our understanding there, we have to understand natural variability better than we donatural variability better than we do today.

Earlier this month, Enbridge announced a $ 3.2 - billion sale of renewable power facilities and natural gas processing assets in North America, and the company has earmarked another $ 7 billion in divestitures as it aims to bring its debt down to five times EBITDA by the end of the year.

She explains: «UK forests have been shaped by human processes over thousands of years and include ancient woodlands, timber forestry, wildlife reserves and protected Areas of Outstanding Natural.

If used as an average for the globe, it would represent the sum of all CO2 added to, and removed from, the atmosphere during the year by human activities and by natural processes.

Of that 240 gigaton excess, about 5 gigatons per year is removed by natural processes.

My understanding was that about 60 % of the additional carbon we pump into the atmosphere each year is immediately sequestered by natural processes, presumably largely biological.

If the process says that each 10 year chunk is dominated by a completely different set of «cycles,» that seems to put the nail in the coffin of the idea that climate is really driven by as yet undiscovered natural cycles and clearly shows that such attempts are just exercises in curve fitting)

To ask whether global warming was (as there has been no recognizable warming for the last 10 years) caused by humans or by natural processes, and to recognize that there are benefits to human beings in a warmer world, is to thoroughly undermine the agendas of man - hating environmentalists such as Friends Of The Earth, and their fellow travellers.

By focusing on the 50 - year period, Holland hopes to be able to differentiate between what weather patterns are driven by natural processes and what is being driven by man - made contributionBy focusing on the 50 - year period, Holland hopes to be able to differentiate between what weather patterns are driven by natural processes and what is being driven by man - made contributionby natural processes and what is being driven by man - made contributionby man - made contributions.

Essentially, Hurst's discovery in 1950 of the behaviour named after him and the model that had been proposed by Kolmogorov 10 years earlier recognize the multi-scale fluctuation of natural processes and describe it in stationary terms.»

(Sec. 452) National Climate Service Act of 2009 - Requires the President to: (1) initiate a process through the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources of the National Science and Technology Council, led by the Director of OSTP, to evaluate alternative structures to support a collaborative, interagency research and operational program to meet the needs of decision makers for information related to climate variability and change; (2) provide a plan to establish such a program; and (3) within three years after enactment of this Act, establish a National Climate Service to accomplish the program goal.

In response to claims made by Bob Carter that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had not uncovered evidence that global warming was caused by human activity, a former CSIRO climate scientist stated that Bob Carter was not a credible source on climate change and that «if he [Carter] has any evidence that [global warming over the past 100 years] is a natural variability he should publish through the peer review process.»

He added, «By observation of a number of natural internal processes we can find further support for the coming change and I have referred before to the confirmed slowdown of the Gulf Stream, the effect of major endothermic polar ice melt and forecast reduction in solar activity after 70 years of extreme activity not seen for 8000 years before.

About 40 years ago, using electrical heating of horizontal plates of hot - rolled steel and aluminium to separate natural convective and radiative heat transfer, I measured the former and deduced the latter by difference as a function of local GHG composition and temperature to design large process plant.

Natural processes changed the timing and magnitude of soil moisture, streamflow, and groundwater deficits by up to several years, and caused the amplification of rainfall declines in streamflow to be greater than in normal dry years.

According to him, the Holocene was not supposed to be this long, but the natural glacial inception process was stopped by an anthropogenic perturbation that began as early as 8,000 years ago (rice plantations and land management by antique civilisations).

Consider the claim by Dr Norman Page (who writes here) and Dr Nicola Scafetta (who has published in peer - reviewed journals), and others, that there is a natural process affecting global climate, having periodicities near 1000 and 60 years, that is accurately represented by the weighted sum of sine curves.

More nitrogen is now converted into reactive forms by industry than all by all the planet's natural processes and our industrial and agricultural processes are causing a continual build - up of long - lived greenhouse gases to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years and possibly much longer.

The latter process — called decoupling — has already occurred over the past 50 years; but to reach peak impact by the end of this century, we need to accelerate the pace of modernization and direct technological of change towards using high - energy, low - footprint technologies that enable us to economize natural resources.

... The observed patterns of change over the past 50 years can not be explained by natural processes alone, nor by the effects of short - lived atmospheric constituents (such as aerosols and tropospheric ozone) alone.

Second, the rapid and large - scale exploitation of fossil fuels [4]-- a vast stock of nonrenewable resources accumulated by Nature over hundreds of millions of years that are being drawn down in just a few centuries — and the invention of the Haber — Bosch process to use natural gas to produce nitrogen fertilizer [5,6] enabled increasingly higher levels of food and energy production.

The leather is longer lasting than traditional cow leather due to the challenges salmon skin faces over its lifetime: from freshwater to saltwater.The tanning process was developed by John Fitzgerald over three years, and invovles a vegetable tanning agent, which thickens and reinforces the natural matrix of the fish skin, resulting in a long - lived and resilient leather, alleged to be superior to alligator skin.

Many experience the «motherhood pay penalty» and are punished by companies at the end of the year for choosing to bear children — a natural process.»