More than half, or 57 percent, also think global warming is caused by "human activity" or "mostly human activity", according to the survey, up from the 47 percent who attributed it to human activity in a similar poll in 2012.
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Two-thirds of respondents said human activity is completely or mostly the cause of climate change, and 81 percent in all said human activity was at least half to blame.
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" "Is it human activity or is it actually science?
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Like many animals, Laysan albatross are threatened by human activity.
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On land, too, are signs of relatively little human activity.
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Doing deep thinking, for example, is a deeply human activity.
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That increases the risk of fires caused by human activity.
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Walsh told Woodruff he believes human activity impacts climate change.
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Many showcase beaches are consistently rated "unsuitable" for human activity.
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That human activity has helped raise the global average temperature.
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Most of this is because of human activity and overdevelopment.
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Thirty-seven percent of Americans polled said the environment and human activity contribute equally to a changing climate, while 29 percent place greater blame on human activity and 10 percent blame natural environmental changes.
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Thirty-seven percent of Americans polled said the environment and human activity contribute equally to a changing climate, while 29 percent place greater blame on human activity and 10 percent blame natural environmental changes.
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Human activity around the three rocky spurs haven't helped things, either.
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It's often difficult to attribute fires to human activity or lightning.
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They were just for tigers, with all other human activity excluded.
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Trump doubts mainstream scientific findings that human activity causes global warming.
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Climate change is real; climate change is caused by human activity.
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No surprise here; the IUCN reports it's due to human activity.
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But sound produced by human activity can get in the way.
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"Human activity is causing deforestation on a massive scale," Field said.
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Climate change is real and it is caused by human activity.
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Here is a fact: Human activity is fundamentally altering the planet.
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This is a human activity more akin to art than science.
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There's no evidence that human activity has ever caused an eruption.
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It's really, when you step back, a very peculiar human activity.
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"It applies to every possible field, every human activity," he says.
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Human activity is driving Earth's temperature up, which creates serious threats.
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But human activity is a huge — and unpredictable — factor in avalanches.
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Trump is correct that wildfires are a byproduct of human activity.
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"If that's the scientific consensus — that it's primarily driven by human activity — what I will tell you is that human activity absolutely is a contributor to the climate change that we are currently seeing," Bridenstine responded.
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Individually, each painting contains a stillness that seems poised for human activity.
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And of course, the climate is changing, mostly due to human activity.
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"Human activity impacts our changing climate in some manner," the memo reads.
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Almost everywhere on Earth, corals must endure climate change and human activity.
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Only 56 percent think climate change is caused mostly by human activity.
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" Perry shot back: "Global warming was 85033 percent due to human activity?
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"There's going to be a northern expansion in human activity," she said.
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"Science itself, however precise and objective, is a human activity," he writes.
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The majority of these epidemics happen because of humans and human activity.
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And how many of us believed that human activity was causing it?
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Human activity, the report goes on to say, is a primary culprit.
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Other human activity, like agriculture, likely has the same effect on clouds.
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In areas stressed by human activity, the process can take much longer.
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But the growing scale and destruction from these fires stems from human activity.
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There's human activity there, and humans like to trap or hunt the geese.
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In the Zone the fallout from human activity is embedded in the ground.
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There are a number of factors that contribute to that, including human activity.
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But today, changes to Earth's climate are overwhelmingly the result of human activity.
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He believes that human activity causes climate change, breaking with most Republican leaders.
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Democrats more than Republicans and independents think human activity is mainly to blame.
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The areas without these signs of human activity was what they called wilderness.
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Happer has publicly questioned how much human activity has contributed to global warming.
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The earth is getting hotter and human activity is a major cause, period.
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Human activity has precipitated a vicious cycle, and only we can stop it.
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CBT feels as close to dog training as any human activity can get.
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The new WWF report highlights the impacts of human activity on forests specifically.
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"Anytime he sees any kind of human activity, he bolts," Mr. Higgins said.
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How can you prove that changing human activity could have a positive impact?
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"Human activity impacts our changing climate in some manner," another talking point reads.
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Though limited, human activity in the buffer zone can still harm the environment.
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A trend that is driven predominately by human activity through carbon dioxide emissions.
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Seagrass can also be disturbed by human activity, torn up by dropped anchors.
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The future for biodiversity on planet Earth, due to human activity, looks bleak.
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"I believe the ability to measure with precision the degree that human activity is impacting the climate is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it," Pruitt said when pressed by Sen.
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These studies say oceans are losing oxygen in large part because of human activity.
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On present trends, numerous species will vanish from that record—exterminated by human activity.
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While CO2 naturally exists in the air, human activity has massively elevated its concentration.
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There is no scientific question about whether human activity is driving Earth's temperature up.
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Trump has cast doubt on the degree to which human activity causes climate change.
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"A Moon Shaped Pool" uses the studio extensively, but reveals the human activity there.
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He is a certified urban planner who focuses on integrating sustainability with human activity.
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Of this group, 90 percent feel human activity is at least partly the cause.
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The report concluded that around 92 percent of climate change stems from human activity.
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The Fram Strait, where researchers collected the data, is far from most human activity.
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"I think there is some connectivity" between human activity and climate change, Trump said.
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It linked the changing climate directly to greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity.
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Instead of succumbing to the pressures of human activity, some species are rapidly evolving.
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"Human activity has brought my kind to the brink of extinction," the narrator explains.
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Human activity has made the Mississippi River more of a problem for the Gulf.
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I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.
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Mr. Bridenstine had questioned whether human activity is the primary cause of global warming.
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Every year hundreds of millions of birds die needless deaths due to human activity.
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Authorities believe human activity sparked the blaze, but an exact cause hasn&apost been determined.
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The vast majority of scientists have repeatedly concluded human activity has contributed to climate change.
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One big question: Why hasn't anyone else found evidence of human activity this far back?
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Officials believe human activity sparked the blaze, but an exact cause hasn&apost been determined.
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This is global warming, and there's overwhelming scientific evidence that it's caused by human activity.
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And Americans believe more than ever that climate change is happening due to human activity.
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But, like the Holliday Park Ruins, ancient ruins have been repeatedly altered by human activity.
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This new research bolsters the suggestion that a connection exists between FP and human activity.
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But unlike Chagos, other remote locations lack critical records of fishing surveys and human activity.
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Areas with human activity are particularly prone, since humans are often the sources of fires.
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All of the aforementioned activity is fraudulent because it takes place without any human activity.
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We tend to posture particular domains of human activity into particular places and social contexts.
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"I think we need to be careful that any human activity affects the whole Earth."
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Scientists warn that we're potentially amidst a sixth mass extinction event, thanks to human activity.
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LIKE almost every other human activity, religion will make its mark at the Rio Olympics.
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While the days of commercial whaling may be over, human activity remains their biggest threat.
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Many related species are trading genes through hybridization, either naturally or because of human activity.
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Two, is it caused by human activity and three, should Congress do something about it?
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UNITED STATES: 38% of Americans surveyed believe climate change is caused mostly by human activity.
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Amazon is also adding a new detector that can detect human activity through an Echo.
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Pruitt, like Trump, doubts the mainstream scientific conclusion that human activity is driving global warming.
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Agriculture, the most land-intensive human activity, is also more efficient in the United States.
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Beyond populated areas, there are other troubling signs of environmental damage exacerbated by human activity.
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Recent warming and ice loss are inevitably linked to climate change caused by human activity.
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Ms. Gill and others here argued that human activity had contributed to the stubborn bloom.
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Sure, all human activity is meaningless, seeing as the world will probably end one day.
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There is broad scientific consensus that human activity is the primary cause of global warming.
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He also said that those upward trends are essentially "100 percent" attributable to human activity.
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At night, small pockets of light from human activity are visible on Earth&aposs surface.
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Greece's "gulf of plastic corals" was another reminder of the damaging effects of human activity.
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Bastardi believes that the climate is changing, but human activity is not the main cause.
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The team does not believe the change in pitch is tied directly to human activity.
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But the northern third has always been more pristine, located far from (most) human activity.
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Certain Republican members of Congress don't even believe that global warming is caused by human activity.
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Only 24% believe that human activity is to blame, though, compared with 78% of Democratic voters.
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In general, gossip, which is different from harassment and public shaming, is a deeply human activity.
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This is universally a human activity — chimpanzees are shown to only imitate actions if they're practical.
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Identifying these scratching stones could be key to keeping human activity from disturbing these massive creatures.
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His subject matter is civilization itself and the infernal encounters between human activity and the planet.
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Remotely operated, dexterous humanoid robots have a lot of potential across basically all of human activity.
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The earth and its climate are dynamic, and have changed throughout history, even without human activity.
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On a broad scale, the maps emphasize the massive influence of human activity on the planet.
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The Levallois tools are the oldest in the region to be linked with modern human activity.
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Population density and human activity plays a role in the number of snake bites, said Schulte.
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This, alongside encroaching human activity and changing weather, has led to dramatic increases in massive wildfires.
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He's stated that human activity impacts the climate, but the degree of that impact isn't certain.
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Tillerson dodged a direct question on whether he believed climate change was caused by human activity.
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The president went on to dispute the scientific consensus that human activity contributes to climate change.
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He says there's no way to know if Greenland glaciers would be melting without human activity.
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Human activity is to blame: Habitats are being destroyed due to pollution, climate change, and deforestation.
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Human activity is also driving a sixth mass extinction, polluting the oceans, and deforesting the land.
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"It's likely that CO2 emissions from human activity have some influence on the climate," she said.
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Earlier in his career, he questioned the research showing that warming is caused by human activity.
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The ability of the land to absorb and produce greenhouse gases is affected by human activity.
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Human activity drives the shy birds away, he said, and contributes to a loss of habitat.
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At the open-air site in Beacon, all human activity blends freely and beautifully with nature.
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But the very definition of human activity and its effects is subject to debate by scientists.
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It may have started with a bat in a cave, but human activity set it loose.
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In conversation, we circled back again and again to the ways human activity impacts animal life.
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The Amazon rainforest does not burn naturally, so fires are a direct result of human activity.
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The ocean is storing more than 90 percent of the excess heat generated by human activity.
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But knowing long-term and regional trends, in association with human activity, could help determine risk.
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And then comes the earthquake, like a purifying fire, to nullify all this busy human activity.
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There is no longer any meaningful debate about the effects of human activity on our climate.
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Earlier, I asked him if he believed that human activity was linked to the warming planet.
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"This is not a landslide disaster but it is caused by human activity itself," he said.
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New York (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump conceded Tuesday there is "some connectivity" between human activity and climate change and wavered on whether he would pull the United States out of international accords aimed at combating the phenomenon, which scientists overwhelmingly agree is caused by human activity.
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" Tillerson echoed Pruitt's sentiment, saying during his hearing that "Some literature suggests [human activity causes climate change].
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Both men reject the mainstream scientific consensus that human activity is the leading cause of global warming.
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We are in the sixth mass extinction in Earth's history, and human activity is a known cause.
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By showing that human activity can effect the weather, he helped inspire subsequent research on climate change.
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The extent to which that has been caused by human activity I think is not as clear.
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He did not directly respond to a question as to whether human activity is causing climate change.
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Some of those fires were caused by natural events like lightning; others were caused by human activity.
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He has sometimes dismissed as a hoax the idea that global warming is caused by human activity.
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At almost every step, human activity has exacerbated the risks, the damages, and the harms from fires.
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A causal reminder here that neither Pruitt nor our president is certain human activity causes global warming.
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However, the severity and the damage from recent wildfires is due in large part to human activity.
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Satellite-based sensors show us the short- and long-term impacts of human activity on our environment.
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Later in his daily briefing, Spicer was asked whether Trump believes that human activity causes climate change.
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Lorries are X-rayed for stowaways, carbon-dioxide sensors detect human activity and sniffer dogs patrol regularly.
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Most world leaders are seeking to reduce greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel production and other human activity.
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The thrust of Silicon Valley is always to take human activity and shift it into metabolic overdrive.
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Natural lead levels tend to be low, so lead pollution is a conspicuous signal of human activity.
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Smith, a member of the Tea Party Caucus, in Washington, denies that human activity affects global warming.
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The fallout from the footprint of human activity in the 21st century seems to grow every year.
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But Pruitt and others in the administration are skeptical, only agreeing that human activity has some role.
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Recent research has revealed that the increases in jellyfish populations can be linked to human activity, too.
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Oil and natural gas development has impacts just like any other energy development or productive human activity.
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When asked if she accepts that global warming is caused by human activity, she declined to comment.
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Maybe EPA chief Scott Pruitt was trying to prove that human activity doesn't melt ice after all.
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We know it's going to be bad, but human activity today could still make the future worse.
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"There is no human activity without errors, and I accept that I too made some," he said.
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My preference is to use climate change — and always make clear that human activity is driving it.
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Earth is warming, and much of the uptick on our planetary thermostat is caused by human activity.
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These consequences of human activity could be the thing that prevents our civilization from advancing much further.
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The deep sea is the most mysterious realm on Earth, and remains virtually untouched by human activity.
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Human activity is changing the climate, which is forcing some forests to heat up and dry out.
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In his work (influenced by Karl Friedrich Schinkel) he sought to unify landscape, architecture, and human activity.
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The PPC's Bernier, on the other hand, does not believe climate change is caused by human activity.
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The PPC's Bernier, on the other hand, does not believe climate change is caused by human activity.
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Transitional shots are few; empty interiors are introduced before (or held after) being animated by human activity.
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Some conservationists see protected wildlife areas as the solution, keeping out all human activity, including Indigenous communities.
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Senior adviser, corporate issues, Chevron We believe climate change is real and human activity contributes to it.
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The refusal to allow machinery to dictate human activity unites the shop floor and the dance floor.
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The results showed that 96 percent of liberal Democrats thought human activity contributes greatly to climate change.
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Poaching, deforestation, and other forms of human activity have dramatically reduced the mass of life on Earth.
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"If you start at 1750, most of the increase is due to human activity," Mr. Butler said.
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And it's likely another example of how human activity is radically changing the surface of the planet.
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Speech is everywhere—a part of every human activity (employment, health care, securities trading, you name it).
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Since it doesn't occur in nature, any measured ruthenium 106 is assumed to originate from human activity.
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Unchecked human activity has disrupted the natural habitat putting a dangerous strain on food production and fragile ecosystems.
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But Tillerson did not directly respond to a question as to whether human activity is causing climate change.
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"Science tells us the climate is changing and human activity in some matter impacts that change," Pruitt said.
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Rick Scott, Florida's governor, will not say whether he accepts the links between human activity and global warming.
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In a meeting with the New York Times, he acknowledged some "connectivity" between human activity and climate change.
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Conservative Americans are increasingly skeptical that human activity is driving Earth's temperature up, according to one recent poll.
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Conservationists constantly worry that human activity, particularly greenhouse-gas-induced global warming, will harm or even destroy it.
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And the scientific consensus is that human activity has played a large part in spurring these devastating changes.
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But as noted, the bigger, deeper problem has to do with human activity, namely the use of gillnets.
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John Thune of South Dakota, the committee's chairman, who has acknowledged human activity is responsible for climate change.
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In fact, human activity, especially the danger from cars, is the greatest threat to the tiny deer's conservation.
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Sanders: 97 percent of scientists believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change.
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Ebell is an outspoken, longtime skeptic of the scientific consensus that human activity is dramatically changing the climate.
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A plurality, 37%, say human activity and natural changes in the environment both contribute equally to climate change.
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Many top Trump officials deny the scientific consensus that carbon emissions from human activity are driving global warming.
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The question isn't whether climage change is real or how much of it is caused by human activity.
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In the past half-century, though, these beautiful, biodiverse structures have been put under pressure by human activity.
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On Tuesday, Trump rejected the scientific consensus that human activity is the primary driver behind the warming planet.
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If these deep sea communities are disrupted by human activity, the floodgates could open, with potentially disastrous consequences.
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This, according to the FAO, represents 14.5% of "anthropogenic" — something which derives from human activity – greenhouse gas emissions.
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The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, rejects scientific consensus linking human activity to climate change.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry has also said that human activity is not the main driver of climate change.
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While much of human activity can be attributed to simple financial incentives, not all can nor should be.
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O.K., the climate is changing, but it's a natural phenomenon that has nothing to do with human activity.
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Today, people are working to save some of these places from the climate changes accelerated by human activity.
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But many astronomers are convinced it is not a leftover from a rocket launch or other human activity.
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Add up the evidence, and it overwhelmingly suggests that human activity has helped create the ferocity of Harvey.
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In 2007, he personally acknowledged that climate change was happening and that human activity was a contributing factor.
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The future of the past There is a perennial threat to heritage sites from human activity and nature.
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On top of fossil fuel production, livestock, landfills and other sources linked to human activity also emit methane.
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Human activity is affecting the land, oceans, & atmosphere, altering the balance of the climate system & causing global changes.
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Wehrum said it is an "open question" as to the degree of human activity influence in climate change.
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Pruitt has denied the consensus among climate scientists that carbon emissions from human activity are driving global warming.
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The way I've formulated the mission for Tech Review would be to say, technology is a human activity.
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It is now estimated that human activity has contributed to the extinction of more than 80 mammalian species.
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You can also select commercial fishing (in blue), and see how this human activity overlaps with shark movement.
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What it came up with instead scrapped all references to human activity as the primary cause of climate change.
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And let's be abundantly clear: Human activity is a major factor increasing the severity and the damage from wildfires.
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But in fact, 97 percent of working climate scientists agree that the Earth is warming because of human activity.
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At the hearing, Tillerson was asked about climate change and whether he believed it was caused by human activity.
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PERRY: — and you said that he made the statement that global warming was 100 percent due to human activity.
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It's important to point out, however, that the causes of wildfires are complex and highly susceptible to human activity.
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As ever-greater swathes of human activity are subsumed by the digital revolution, so they too can be calibrated.
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"Both the chronological context and the signs of human activity at the site can be questioned," he told Gizmodo.
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The evidence is clear that human activity is affecting the planet at a rapid pace and doing irreversible damage.
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CO2 levels are the highest they've been in at least 800,000 years, and the driving reason is human activity.
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Richard Burr replied "No" when asked if he believes that human activity is the major factor driving climate change.
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They found that urbanization, shipping, and human activity will be the most relevant drivers of mosquito spread at first.
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A full 97 percent of climate scientists agree that the climate is changing and human activity is causing it.
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He has not only acknowledged that our climate is changing; he has said that human activity is a factor.
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Human activity, such as fossil fuel production and agriculture, are currently responsible for 64 percent of Earth's methane emissions.
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"I indicated that in fact global warming is occurring, human activity contributes to it in some manner," he said.
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Reality check: Most scientists agree human activity is the driving cause of a warmer planet over the last century.
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Trump administration officials on Thursday repeatedly refused to say whether the president believes human activity contributes to climate change.
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"Speech is everywhere—a part of every human activity (employment, health care, securities trading, you name it)," she warned.
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Seven million Americans live or work in areas threatened by earthquakes induced by human activity, federal researchers said Monday.
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Instead, she saw the urban fabric as an interweaving of human activity, natural forces and designed settings and buildings.
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A new report from the federal government details how human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels, is causing climate change.
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" She added, "Speech is everywhere—a part of every human activity (employment, health care, securities trading, you name it).
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The 2017 figure is the highest level of CO2 on record and it's clearly the result of human activity.
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Aspiring, Callard thinks, is a common human activity: there are aspiring wine lovers, art appreciators, sports fans, fashionistas, d.j.
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He has also questioned the scientific consensus that human activity is causing the planet to warm to dangerous levels.
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Two questions that are sometimes asked were missing: Is climate change happening and is human activity responsible for it?
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Human activity has driven up the average global rate of extinction to 100 to 1,000 times that baseline rate.
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"I'm not going to argue with scientists how much human activity affects natural environment, including climate," Mr. Duda said.
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Climate crisis One million species are threatened by human activity, according to a United Nations report earlier this year.
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"Speech is everywhere — a part of every human activity (employment, health care, securities trading, you name it)," she wrote.
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Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, the former ExxonMobil CEO, wouldn't admit that human activity is causing climate change.
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They're mesmerizing, unconscious byproducts of human activity, which these days dominates even the most indomitable landscapes on the planet.
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Mr. Perry has denied that human activity is responsible for climate change, something that virtually all scientists agree on.
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Sanders slammed President Donald Trump for dismissing the overwhelming scientific evidence that climate change is caused by human activity.
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Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in air that can originate from both natural processes and human activity.
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"The refusal to allow machinery to dictate human activity unites the shop floor and the dance floor," wrote Haider.
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"Among Trump supporters, the majority think climate change is due to natural patterns rather than human activity," Smith continued.
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Already, we've seen a rise of nearly 1 degree, something that scientists say was caused mainly by human activity.
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The western side is often perturbed by human activity, and these new observations suggest penguins fare better when they're undisturbed.
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Last year was part of historic warming phenomenon driven overwhelmingly by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, the report noted.
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True, during his New York Times interview he allowed that there is "some connectivity," between human activity and the climate.
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However, throughout history, not just in the art world, human activity has inevitably been affected by financial or comparable exchanges.
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He criticised those who, like Trump, doubt the science that shows human activity is causing the earth to heat up.
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Pruitt has rejected the conclusions of a vast majority of scientists who say climate change is driven by human activity.
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The president once called global warming a "hoax", then more recently acknowledged "some connectivity" between human activity and climate change.
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The Snow Gods reserve special contempt for those who don't respect their ability to bring human activity to a standstill.
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By fourth grade, kids can understand why climate change threatens habitats and animals, and that human activity is to blame.
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What is most disturbing about fires in the Amazon is that the burning is a direct result of human activity.
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It also revealed new hotspots of biodiversity -- areas that are rich in species but also under threat from human activity.
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It is ironic, then, that this icon of the natural world might actually be an accidental consequence of human activity.
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Documenting infernal encounters between human activity and the planet, Edward Burtynsky's multidisciplinary Anthropocene Project is a grave call for change.
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Carbon dioxide concentrations themselves are the highest they've been in some 15 million years, and human activity is to blame.
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Why it matters: A repeated trend toward record-breaking temperatures is indicative of a warming climate, driven by human activity.
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Some quicks tips: you tend to get interesting results when you upload artwork, photographs of human activity, and abstract images.
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That's going to be crucial as rapidly receding ice caps bring more and more pesky human activity into the arctic.
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Pruitt's own view, he said, is that human activity contributes to climate change, but measuring how much is "very challenging".
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From 2009 to 2015, Richard Misrach worked on Border Cantos, capturing traces of human activity along the US-Mexico border.
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It suggests that even a relatively subtle human activity, like skiing, can contribute to the mass decline of these animals.
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Virtually every human activity—agriculture, energy production, fishing, urbanization—is conspiring to destroy life on Earth as we know it.
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They tracked edits over a 10-year period and found that bot activity differs from human activity in several ways.
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There's essentially no debate in the scientific community as to whether human activity is causing the climate to get warmer.
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It's a sign of what increasingly looks to be a massive shift in the dynamics of human activity in space.
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"Science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity, in some manner, impacts that change," Pruitt said.
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Two, human activity during the last 100 years is a dominant cause of the climate change crisis we face today.
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One of the reasons for the massive increase in fires is human activity, and Brazilian President Bolsonaro does not care.
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And rodents thrive in the fragmented, disturbed landscapes that, thanks to human activity, now characterize large sections of the Northeast.
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The scientists said that human activity is, far and away, the main cause of the warming pattern over recent decades.
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There is no single reason why: Wind, climate, drought, and human activity all profoundly impact a fire's severity and behavior.
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This has resulted in an excess of vegetation for fires to burn and more fire-starting sparks from human activity.
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Almost every credible scientific voice tells us human activity has and continues to have a dramatic impact on climate change.
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Our planet is exhibiting severe side effects resulting from human activity while we still debate the existence of climate change.
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A federal climate change report released last month concluded that 92 percent of climate change is caused by human activity.
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While many have asserted that human activity is the driving force behind climate change, this is far from 'settled science.
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"I just view doing land protection near human activity as part of doing conservation in the 21st century," McDonald says.
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There is also evidence that populations of penguins and other wildlife have been disturbed by human activity in some areas.
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She said that because dry tropical forests have a dry period (unlike rain forests) they are hospitable to human activity.
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A group of scientists is worried human activity has pushed the Earth into a new "geological epoch," The Guardian reports.
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As the global consequences of human activity have become unmistakably pressing, Burtynsky has connected his photography more directly with environmentalism.
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Perry has questioned the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.
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According to a Pew Research Center poll taken last year, 75% of Democrats say human activity is causing climate change.
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Because the monument is situated north of Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay, all of it intersects with human activity.
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It is caused by human activity, and it is already causing devastating problems in this country and around the world.
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Likewise, 87% of scientists believed the planet is getting warmer because of human activity, while only 50% of the public does.
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On Tuesday, a reporter asked White House press secretary Sean Spicer if Trump believes that human activity contributes to global warming.
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It soon had archaeologists swooping in to study a number of stone tools scattered around the bones, evidence of human activity.
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Lightning-sparked wildfires are mostly concentrated in summer, but human activity has expanded the fire season to include spring and fall.
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But now, thanks to human activity, corals face the most complex concoction of conditions they have yet had to deal with.
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In truth, the decline of rhino populations through human activity began long before the modern conflicts of Africa annihilated their numbers.
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When Bernie Sanders asked him what caused global warming, Pruitt said CO2 from human activity "impacted," rather than "caused" climate change.
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Human activity is a part of life here, but a golf course, Dargie believes, will disturb the local plants and animals.
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These robots will also be fundamentally different from industrial ones, which usually replace human activity—fitting a car windscreen, for example.
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"It's also scary to know that climate change is due to human activity and we continue to ignore it," she said.
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Richard Hudson answered "No" in response to the poll question: Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change?
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Critics of the study asked how he could be sure the bacteria he tested had never been exposed to human activity.
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He continues to publicly doubt that human activity is contributing to global warming and unravel any measures taken to combat it.
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Most captivating is Linke's video of Kawah Ijen, which presents the East Java volcano as a theatrical stage for human activity.
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The scientific consensus, meanwhile, is that human activity, via greenhouse gases, is far and away the primary cause of climate change.
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Doug Collins answered "No" in response to the poll question: Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change?
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But if you look carefully enough, there are signs that human activity is harming one of the planet's most remote ecosystems.
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Trump disputed the scientific consensus that human activity contributes to climate change during an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday.
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Many in the administration are skeptical that climate change is caused by human activity or doubt its consequences will be significant.
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A climate denier is a person who denies the overwhelming scientific evidence that the climate is changing because of human activity.
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The number who said it's impacted more by human activity is up from only 46% who said so in February 453.
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Though the otter population has rebounded since then, human activity -- from oil spills to fishing nets -- still poses a major threat.
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Anthony Fisher: According to a recent Kaiser poll more than half of Republicans believe human activity is affecting the world's climate.
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Human activity due to sprawl development in fire-prone areas has been shown to cause more fires and likely ignited both.
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Although they occur naturally, algal blooms are being intensified by human activity in ways that scientists are still trying to quantify.
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The poll also found that 76 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 accepted that human activity is behind climate change.
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However, the only thing on this list under our control is human activity, which is driven by our choices and reactions.
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As you watch its diligent overseers at work, the movie feels like a Zen meditation on time, nature and human activity.
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That contrasts with the scientific consensus on global warming, which is that greenhouse gases from human activity are the main driver.
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Pruitt, however, is skeptical of the scientific consensus that human activity is far and away the primary cause of climate change.
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Most climate scientists say it's extremely likely that greenhouse gas emissions, which are generated by human activity contribute to global warming.
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Joe Wilson answered "No" in response to the poll question: Do you believe that human activity is contributing to climate change?
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Although cities can be warmer than the countryside, the heat and human activity result in less snow than in rural areas.
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Their analysis revealed 130 potential sites suitable for rewilding and an additional 150 spots with little human activity to consider preserving.
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Human activity was changing the Earth's drought and rainfall patterns as far back as the early 20th century, new research shows.
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Though wetlands have shielded New Orleans from storm surges in the past, that buffer has gradually been destroyed by human activity.
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They are also intensified by human activity, such as from farm and phosphorus runoff, leakage from sewer systems, and other pollution.
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According to Agora, the photographer calls his photo "a block of houses in which human activity is manifested in the image."
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The poll also found a partisan split on belief in the scientific consensus that climate change is caused by human activity.
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Agriculture consumes more freshwater than any other human activity, and nearly a third of that water is devoted to raising livestock.
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They found that a majority of Americans—60 percent—think UFO sightings can be explained by human activity or natural phenomena.
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Water flows through practically every human activity including domestic use, irrigation, energy production, recreation, esthetic enjoyment, transportation, mining, trade and more.
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Once fuel-heavy areas finally ignite, whether from human activity or a lightning strike, they can spark large-scale, deadly fires.
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A new feature called Alexa Guard can detect "human activity," including footsteps or sounds of breaking glass if there's an intruder.
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It would support raising taxes on companies that burn fossil fuels and believes human activity is causing the climate to change.
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Reminder: His own government says most of the current warming trend "is extremely likely" to be the result of human activity.
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Oceana, the conservation group that is working with Freeman, said 73 million sharks are killed every year due to human activity.
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It only makes it more unsafe and, in particular, forces women to navigate unnecessary obstacles to engage in normal human activity.
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Human activity could stir up remnant plutonium, which if ingested by refuge visitors or residents downwind can cause cancer, Weiner said.
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"Many independent lines of evidence demonstrate that the world is warming and that human activity is the primary cause," the introduction reads.
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Carbon dioxide accounts for about 80 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The ups and downs in past periods represent natural occurrences, whereas the current spike is due to human activity, according to scientists.
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" Asked about the scientific consensus on a connection between human activity and climate change, he added: "I think there is some connectivity.
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And there's still more work to do in figuring out how much of Florence's destruction can be traced back to human activity.
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The majority of climate scientists—at least 97 percent—agree that climate change is happening, and is a consequence of human activity.
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One of SIFA's key aims was preserving the memory of human activity that occurred in historical areas, explained director Ong Keng Sen.
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In the 36 years since the reef was declared a World Heritage Area, mounting stresses from human activity have left it struggling.
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"WE HAVE FAILED TO LISTEN" He implicitly criticised those who, like Trump, deny that climate change is mostly caused by human activity.
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It takes around a half hour from detection to release the bulletin, said Vitale, with most of the delay from human activity.
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More recently, such as in his NASA administrator confirmation hearings last November, he has acknowledged that human activity contributes to climate change.
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About 60 percent of atmospheric methane and nitrous oxide arise from natural sources, but the other 40 percent come from human activity.
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But the destruction from the gargantuan blazes we've seen in recent years is hardly natural; human activity is clearly making it worse.
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In the third location, where human activity is rampant, the frogs were seen perching on leaves of small shrubs, ferns, and grasses.
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The threats Beginning in the late 1980s scientists studying the lake began to notice significant and concerning changes caused by human activity.
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Scientists tell us that climate change is real, is caused by human activity, and could have devastating effects all over the world.
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The app has been fed the different characteristics of earthquakes and human activity and it trains the phone to recognize the difference.
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Instead of wiping out half of all the humans on Earth, let's remove all human activity from half of the Earth's surface.
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Many scientists argue that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which human activity is directly affecting the planet.
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The scientific consensus is that human activity, via greenhouse gas emissions, is far and away the main cause of the changing climate.
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Dana Rohrabacher who said he was "disturbed" that he heard people warning against questioning the link between human activity and climate change.
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It said that natural systems were now being destabilized so quickly by human activity that dangerous tipping points would soon be reached.
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"It's a distraction from the real topic: How many of those species are threatened or endangered because of human activity," asked McKeon.
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This is a complete contradiction to his arguments and the position of many Republicans that human activity is not causing climate change.
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Harris also asked whether Pompeo agreed with the scientific consensus, espoused by NASA, that climate change is happening due to human activity.
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Trump's skepticism that global warming is caused by human activity also raised questions about what the statement will say on the issue.
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The majority of climate scientists—at least 4003 percent—agree that climate change is happening, and is a consequence of human activity.
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And instead of entering a gradual cooling period, which we should be right now, we're actually getting warmer, due to human activity.
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Both made claims similar to Mr. Trump's about a supposed disagreement among scientists about the role of human activity in climate change.
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But if the stresses caused by human activity can be stopped, Dr. Alino explained, coral reefs have a better chance of surviving.
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Still, the metamorphoses that were underway manifested themselves subtly, shaping the daily rhythms of human activity at home and in the workplace.
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Trump has previously called climate change a "hoax" despite scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused primarily by human activity.
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A globally disrupted climate — created explicitly by human activity — should not be an inevitable reality future Americans have to bear, noted Parenteau.
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Trump and top members of his cabinet reject the mainstream scientific consensus that human activity is primarily to blame for global warming.
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Methane research: Fossil fuel emissions from human activity have been underestimated by 25 to 40 percent, researchers reported in the journal Nature.
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The Freetown mudslide was caused by a more deliberate human activity than is usually associated with climate change and similar natural catastrophes.
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Multiple outlets owned by News Corp have featured editorial pieces that work to debunk any link between human activity and climate change.
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And he's questioned the scientific consensus that human activity drives climate change, urging a scientific debate on the work underpinning that conclusion.
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Environmental changes are happening much more rapidly than in the last several thousand years and they are "clearly linked" to human activity.
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Pruitt has claimed that carbon dioxide caused by human activity is not 'the primary contributor to the global warming that we see.
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The vast majority of American meteorologists tell researchers they believe in climate change, with most now blaming human activity for causing it.
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In a briefing after the speech, senior administration officials would not say whether Trump believes that human activity contributes to climate change.
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This average helps eliminate year-to-year variations in the climate like El Niño cycles, isolating the changes wrought by human activity.
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Illustration: Peter SchoutenNew research suggests it was climate change—not human activity—that caused Thylacoleo carnifex, an Australian marsupial lion, to go extinct.
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The researchers' paper was published in The Anthropocene Review, and looked at how human activity was impacting the trajectory of the earth's system.
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Ed Markey whether she agrees with scientists who say that the crisis is "largely because of fossil fuels and human activity," Craft hedged.
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An encyclical, or major letter, he published in 2015 called for action to reduce the harm from global warming caused by human activity.
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" Pruitt, asked if he himself believed climate change is occurring, said he has indicated that "human activity contributes to it in some manner.
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For the record: Ebell says he acknowledges human activity is the primary cause of Earth's temperature rise but doesn't think it's a problem.
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"Places like Mullion Island should be sanctuaries for our seabirds, so it's distressing to see them become victims of human activity," Holder said.
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Indeed, a 2014 Gallup survey showed that one in four Americans still don't believe human activity is causing Earth's climate to heat up.
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Just watch: Nearly all of the world's Earth scientists agree that climate change is happening, and that human activity is primarily to blame.
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"When you walk around the manufactured world, so much of it testifies to carelessness in human activity, in engineering, in aesthetics," he said.
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Worse, the company funded campaigns to confuse the public on scientific certainty that the planet is warming and human activity was to blame.
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Description: For decades the world has been aware that human activity is heating up the planet to dangerous levels, with potentially calamitous consequences.
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Fulks also rejects the notion that human activity since the Industrial Revolution has significantly contributed to the degree of warming we see today.
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Primate numbers are suffering in large part because the animals are losing habitat to deforestation for agriculture, logging, mining and other human activity.
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The 48 sets of remains unearthed in graves in the Taichung area are the earliest trace of human activity found in central Taiwan.
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In a background briefing after the announcement, two White House officials dodged questions about whether Trump believes human activity contributes to climate change.
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The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency on Sunday said the "real issue" is how much human activity affects the climate changing.
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Trump has called global warming a "hoax," while Pruitt maintains that it is not clear how much human activity contributes to climate change.
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The curators follow closely in the wake of the city's human activity, collecting the materials left behind by protests and vigils and attacks.
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Thirty-four percent of respondents said that humans were primarily responsible for global warming, while 22019 percent said human activity was partially responsible.
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The report, released Monday, also indicates the majority of Australians trust the science that suggests human activity is to blame for climate change.
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Brian Schatz during his confirmation hearing last fall over whether human activity was a contributor to or the primary cause of climate change.
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A 2017 report in Science Advances found that around 60 percent of primate species are threatened with extinction — all due to human activity.
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A record number of fires have hit the Amazon this year — more than 70,000 — and experts say they are due to human activity.
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Here's what else the study found:86% of teens believe human activity is causing the climate to change, compared to 79% of adults.
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According to a recent E.P.A. report, in 2014, 8 percent of U.S. methane emissions due to human activity were produced by manure management.
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Shouldn't you come out on the record and tell us whether you believe that human activity is having an impact on our environment?
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JAMES BENNET, editorial page editor: When you say an open mind, you mean you're just not sure whether human activity causes climate change?
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Climate scientists agree that global warming is real and that the driver is carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
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Often called the lungs of the earth, the Amazon absorbs much of the carbon dioxide we emit to the atmosphere through human activity.
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With increasing human activity in the water, which boosts the amount of sound pollution, the way marine animals use sound might be impaired.
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Asked whether Trump -- who once called climate change a hoax -- believes human activity is contributing to global warning, Spicer said he wasn't sure.
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The transportation sector accounts for about a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity in the United States, according to the EPA.
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To state that the activities of China and India are affecting climate change is to admit that human activity is causing climate change.
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Climate change is real, is caused by human activity and our window of opportunity to fix the problem is literally now or never.
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Studying this catastrophe could shed light on the worrisome climatic shifts that our own planet is experiencing, as a result of human activity.
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That was when the internet was something people used from time to time, rather than the fundamental substrate of half of human activity.
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Mr. Sabin has no doubt that greenhouse gases from human activity are warming the planet, leading to rising oceans and more severe weather.
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The report also details the warming trends of more than 85033 degree Fahrenheit from 1880 to 2015 are likely linked to human activity.
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If she sees the increase in human activity where her seal pup may be, that can increase the chances of a pup abandonment.
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That showed voters like Jim Cass, a commercial fisherman in Key West, that Mr. DeSantis understood how human activity can harm the economy.
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Because of her work, scientists can say with greater confidence that El Niño has become more intense as a result of human activity.
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"The scientific consensus is not that it's really difficult to tell how much of climate change is attributable to human activity," he said.
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When asked by the Aurora Sentinel whether global warming is caused by human activity and what Congress should do to prevent it, Rep.
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While her work focuses on elements of the natural world, Winderen's sound pieces invariably — and, indeed, inevitably — include noises derived from human activity.
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There aren't enough carbon sinks to offset every iota of carbon from human activity, so they can't compensate for all of our emissions.
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"We can see human traffic, human activity that isn't visible on your traditional satellite," said David Schmerler, one of the California-based researchers.
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Unlike U.S. President Donald Trump, who met the pope last week, Trudeau and Francis agree that climate change is caused by human activity.
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The key misconception is that all of the warming since the Industrial Revolution — 0.9 degrees Celsius — is a result of human activity. Hardly.
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Clovis is a former college professor who has challenged the general scientific consensus that human activity is the primary cause of climate change.
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Of those authors, all but four, or 99.99 percent, indicated that global warming is caused primarily by human activity (particularly burning fossil fuel).
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Unlike most news releases accompanying the index during the Obama administration, NOAA's announcement this year does not directly link human activity to emissions.
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Two great advances of 1859 helped cement the view that 4004 B.C. was not, in fact, the starting point of all human activity.
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And when it was his turn to present, the Chevron attorney agreed that human activity is changing the climate and that it warrants action.
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Trump has tapped cabinet officials who deny the mainstream scientific consensus that climate change is happening, and that human activity is largely to blame.
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It's also facing a landlocked future due to human activity that's causing the Great Salt Lake to dry up, as Hyperallergic reported last month.
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At a time when concerns about how human activity is destroying nature have reached a fever pitch, Soleri's ideas sound both attractive and necessary.
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Although Trump has said that there is "some connectivity" between human activity and climate change, he also has expressed doubts about the climate crisis.
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Trump rejects the consensus among climate scientists that global warming is primarily caused by human activity and presents an urgent threat to the world.
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In the case of the border, however, this technology can be used to measure slight changes in the atmosphere that might detect human activity.
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And what they've found is this: Human activity vastly increased the amount of rain the storm produced and expanded the extent of its flooding.
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Yet activists say Indian wildlife protection laws stipulate there must be scientific evidence that human activity is irretrievably destroying tiger habitat before any relocations.
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Nearly all scientists agree Earth is warming, that it's driven largely by human activity and that the repercussions will be more negative than positive.
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Aside from sea level rise, scientists expect that human activity will lead to increasingly dusty and dry conditions in the American West, for example.
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If you're looking for dystopian food you can actually eat, other chefs have brought the haunting effects of human activity into their dishes, too.
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And while the vast majority of scientists agree that this is thanks to human activity, that fact is hard to find in the report.
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Image: China News Net/OICAfter inspecting the site, local officials said the landslide was a natural phenomenon, and not the result of human activity.
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If a bird senses that its songs won't be heard, due to noise from human activity especially, they may stop singing to save energy.
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Just this month, Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee voted against even acknowledging that human activity is a major contributor to climate change.
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Not all Republicans accept the idea that human activity is causing global temperatures to rise, a conclusion reached by an overwhelming majority of scientists.
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The authors of both studies said the severity of the drought was at least partly the result of climate change caused by human activity.
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Animals that live near human activity are becoming nocturnal just to avoid us, and the implications for ecosystems around the world could be huge.
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Pruitt replied that human activity has caused climate change "in some manner" but cast doubt on the extent to which this is the case.
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Over the last 100 years, he said, the earth's atmosphere has warmed enormously, largely because of the emissions of greenhouse gases from human activity.
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He said they are searching all day, but especially at night when alligators are more active because of cooler temperatures and less human activity.
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Last month, the EPA circulated talking points instructing its staffers to say "clear gaps" exist in understanding whether human activity contributes to climate change.
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Mike Pence of Indiana, Mr. Trump's running mate, told CNN on Tuesday that he thought there was "no question" that human activity affected climate.
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In areas where threatened species live, managers may consider restricting human activity to certain times of the day, leaving some daylight just for wildlife.
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At Senate confirmation hearings in recent days, the nominees have all said that the climate is changing, and that human activity is a factor.
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Tillerson would be one of the few people selected for major roles in the Trump administration to believe that human activity causes climate change.
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He has staffed the EPA with climate change skeptics and dissented from the idea that human activity is a primary contributor of climate change.
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More than 90 percent of climate scientists agree that human activity causes climate change, according to several studies published over the last few years.
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This argument is premised on the unprecedented changes Earth is experiencing due to human activity, which could destabilize both the environmental and economic sectors.
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The hearing will directly contradict what Pruitt and other Trump administration officials have said, doubting human activity is a leading driver of climate change.
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An overwhelming majority of scientists say human activity - including the burning of oil, gas and coal - is the main driver of rising global temperatures.
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They suspect it's a combination of record rainfall, high levels of nitrogen caused by agricultural run-off, warmer waters, and other human activity. Gov.
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Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is an outspoken skeptic of the scientific consensus that the climate is changing due mainly to human activity.
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"People will believe more and read more on Twitter if they know there is less bot activity and more human activity," Mr. Weed said.
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More carbon from human activity would remain in the atmosphere to contribute to climate change, or would have to be removed in other ways.
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But replacing human activity is precisely what new technologies accomplish — spears replaced clubs, wheels replaced feet, the printing press replaced scribes, and so on.
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If the rigs are a reminder of human activity, the forest is a reminder of what climate change can do, Dr. Helmuth said later.
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True, some signals emanating from human activity have traveled much farther than even Arecibo, thanks to the incidental leakage of radio and television broadcasts.
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Will extraction of all marine resources be prohibited from those reserves — as so-called no-take areas — or will some human activity be allowed?
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Climate scientists nearly unanimously blame human activity for climate change, warning it will have wide-ranging health and safety impacts for billions of people.
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Just under half of respondents agreed human activity contributes a great deal to climate change, and another 30% said human actions have some role.
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Mr. Trump told New York Times editors and reporters that he does "think there is some connectivity" between human activity and a warming planet.
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The Art of Listening: Under Water draws listeners' attention to the richness of submerged sound worlds — and highlights how human activity might affect it.
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Nevertheless, in both cases these storms demonstrate the increase in weather-related disasters that may be attributed to global climate change from human activity.
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Pruitt also attempted on Wednesday to reassure Democrats that he believes the climate is changing and that human activity is a factor in it.
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Since 1911, we have entered a new geologic age, The Anthropocene, so called because human activity is now the dominant influence shaping the planet.
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Trump is willfully ignoring the recent National Climate Assessment — research coming out of his own administration — which says human activity is warming the planet.
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Despite a scientific consensus that the Earth is warming because of human activity, only a bare majority (53%) of Americans think that it is.
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Pruitt is skeptical of the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity, via greenhouse gases, is far and away the primary cause of climate change.
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" The greenhouse gas index says the growth in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution is "mainly the result of human activity.
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To the contrary, it shows just how sensitive human societies can be to such change — now amplified in speed and scope by human activity.
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Pollsters found that only 27 percent of respondents agree with the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is the main cause of climate change.
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Researchers at Brown University have found that animal and plant species are going extinct 250,22020 times faster than they did prior to human activity.
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Serge, in his work in the social domain, emphasized the dynamics of groups in human activity and how revolutionary and innovative ideas sped humankind along.
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Trump has called climate change a "hoax" but in a recent interview allowed for the possibility that human activity may be contributing to global warming.
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When archaeologists are on the hunt for evidence of ancient human activity, they tend to find hardy things like bones, stone tools, and cave art.
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But more importantly, there are probably a lot of other places where the changing climate or human activity messes with entire food webs and ecosystems.
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But a scientist from NASA says greenhouse gas emissions, which are given off by human activity, are responsible for warming temperatures in the long-term.
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Others say it is difficult to prove this phenomenon, known as "landscape of fear," and that drought and human activity could also influence the environment.
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They found the vast majority of the company's peer-reviewed papers and internal documents confirmed that climate change is real and caused by human activity.
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But to stand up and say that 100 percent of global warming is because of human activity, I think on its face, is just indefensible.
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"WE HAVE FAILED TO LISTEN" He criticised those who, like Trump, doubt the science that shows human activity is causing the earth to heat up.
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She sees it as the emblematic catastrophe of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch during which human activity has become the dominant influence on the environment.
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Then came the behavioural economists, who made it their task to find ways in which human activity systematically diverges from models using those basic assumptions.
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In the ensuing years, the agency continually updated the site as climate science learned more about the ways in which human activity accelerated climate change.
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It could help scientists figure out how to protect these massive beasts, whose chatter may be interrupted by ship noise, fishing, and other human activity.
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But if these deaths are caused by human activity, it be dreadful that we're causing such trouble for an animal that's survived for so long.
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Laying the right groundwork now is especially key because, at some point, there's going to be an increase in human activity in space, Weeden says.
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This book looks at how aesthetics—understood as a more encompassing framework for human activity—might become the primary discourse for political and social engagement.
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These traits enable cephalopods to adapt rapidly to changes in the environment which have become even more pronounced in recent decades thanks to human activity.
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An official TMT document warned that dust and greenhouse gas emissions from human activity may impact "cultural, botanical, wildlife, and astronomical resources" on the mountain.
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Kasich said he believes human activity contributes to climate change, but that nevertheless, it is possible to have stringent environmental rules without hurting the economy.
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Schmidt and Deke Arndt, the top climate monitor at NOAA, said there's little doubt that human activity is almost completely responsible for the warming trend.
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Trump has long denied, or at least questioned, the nearly unanimous agreement among scientists that human activity is causing rapid shifts in the Earth's climate.
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It's a common position taken by people who question the mainstream scientific consensus that human activity is driving Earth's temperature up over the past century.
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Since then, the percentage blaming warmer weather overall on human activity has risen from 38 percent in 2012 to the 50s between 2013 and 2017.
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This alternative view is in perfect agreement that finance is indeed one of the most powerful tools for the organization of human activity ever invented.
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In fact, all of New York's whale species are listed as endangered, and human activity continues to have a lot to do with that status.
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BAHRAIN: Respondents from Bahrain responded with 46% believing climate change was mostly man-made, with 41% believing it was only partially attributed to human activity.
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Francis has made defence of the environment an important plank of his papacy, backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
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Fifty-two percent believe it is either somewhat likely or very likely that robots will take over most human activity within the next 30 years.
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Perry has publicly denied the scientific consensus that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity, including burning fossil fuels, are the primary cause of climate change.
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Trump and Pruitt have both questioned the overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that carbon emissions from human activity are the primary cause of global warming.
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Hope: Kids these days know that brushing their teeth prevents cavities, and also that human activity is contributing to climate change in a major way.
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But the denial of art represented by the text panels is undermined, to my eye, by the thrum of the human activity that created them.
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They defined "safe" as places where the local abundance of species was at least 90 percent of levels in comparable regions untouched by human activity.
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"It's likely that C02 emissions from human activity have some influence on the climate but not to the extent" some scientists have said, she said.
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"Bunk" is a sort of book that comes along rarely: the encompassing survey of some vast realm of human activity, encyclopedic but also unapologetically subjective.
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Namely, people who understand that climate change is largely caused by human activity are more likely to be concerned about climate change and its effects.
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President Trump has said he does not accept the established scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and is primarily the result of human activity.
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How can algorithms tread into language — a quintessentially human activity — and uncover patterns that some may have suspected, but had no clear way of demonstrating?
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It is "extremely likely," the report found, that more than half of temperature rise over the past half-century can be attributed to human activity.
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For instance, the level of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions, regularly posted on Nasa's website, is a proxy for pretty much any post-industrial human activity.
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It takes a certain depth of historical knowledge, along with a leap of the imagination, to picture such ruins as intact, teeming with human activity.
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Unesco noted "the combined work of nature and human activity" in the region, including sheep farming on deforested hillsides, stone villages and grand country estates.
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Both Mr. Hubbard and his 28-year-old daughter, Sarah, oppose an emissions intensity plan and don't believe climate change is caused by human activity.
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Unlike many within the Republican Party, Whitman believes the GOP should tackle the issue of climate change and believes human activity has contributed to it.
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Pompeo in the past has been doubtful about the scientific consensus that human activity is the main contributor to climate change, via greenhouse gas emissions.
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It looked at the 166 threats stemming from human activity that affect each animal and tracked where commodities resulting from that activity eventually end up.
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Human activity in Antarctica falls under the governance of the Antarctic Treaty system, a model of international cooperation that dates to the Cold War era.
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And humans are to blame, scientists say, in part because of the tens of billions of tons of carbon emitted annually because of human activity.
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The sheer scale of NASA's 60-year mission to study Earth is why conclusions about climate change caused by human activity are so firmly established.
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"It's likely that C22019 emissions from human activity have some influence on the climate but not to the extent" some scientists have said, she said.
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"There is overwhelming international scientific consensus that human activity is the principal cause of global warming," a statement released by the organization said this week.
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" In contrast, he pointed out that Republican respondents "are about evenly divided as to whether or not human activity is the cause of global warming.
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But if human activity does bring about yet another mass extinction, we can at least console ourselves with the notion that trees did it first.
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IN THE months following the release of "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006), the percentage of Americans attributing global warming to human activity rose from 41% to 50%.
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"Thus, the urban heat island effect and pollution can be reduced," Mr. Wang said, using a term for warmth in urban areas caused by human activity.
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Restoring the world's lost forests could remove two thirds of the planet-warming carbon that's in the atmosphere because of human activity, a new study says.
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As for the Philippines, however, the oldest trace of human activity came in the form of a single foot bone dating back a "mere" 67,000 years.
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He said it had to be a byproduct of human activity because the combination of elements had never before been seen in any material in nature.
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So to me, the fundamental human activity is not just to use tools, but to use tools to make things and to tell stories about them.
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"This loss is a direct result of human activity and constitutes a direct threat to human well-being in all regions of the world," he added.
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The facts: Nearly all scientists agree Earth is warming, that it's driven largely by human activity and that the repercussions will be more negative than positive.
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The Science While Tchijevsky meticulously studied historical and solar events, he was never able to scientifically prove a causal link between human activity and the Sun.
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Belize said it is expanding its no-take zones, which prohibit fishing, resource extraction and other human activity, to cover 10 percent of its marine areas.
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Pruitt, who while head of the EPA has repeatedly questioned the link between human activity and global warming, also didn't mention it in his video address.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry, veering from the Trump administration message on climate change, told CNBC on Wednesday he believes that human activity does play a role.
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Inhofe has been one of the most outspoken lawmakers who does not acknowledge the scientific consensus that human activity is a main driver of global warming.
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Lake Tanganyika was recently declared the "Threatened Lake of 2017" -- adversely affected by human activity in the form of climate change, deforestation, overfishing and hydrocarbon exploitation.
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In November, Trump told The New York Times that there was "some connectivity" between human activity and climate change, but did not say to what extent.
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Francis has made defence of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
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I can connect "found gestures" with the traces of human activity, the conscious creations in our daily lives without an intention to be creative or artistic.
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Trump – While Trump has flip-flopped on this, his opinions generally coalesce under the belief that the climate is changing, but not because of human activity.
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Users will swipe through a series satellite images on their phone, and tap the screen when they see buildings, houses or other signs of human activity.
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Items which are gleaned are the good and usable fruit of human activity; they have not been discarded, merely overlooked, or thought not worth bothering with.
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Though the manatee has no natural predators, these slow creatures were on the endangered species list for years due to human activity like hunting and boating.
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The release of greenhouse gases from human activity is causing the planet to warm rapidly, perhaps faster than at any other time in the Earth's history.
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Pruitt and Pell have both cast doubt on the scientific community's conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are the primary driver of climate change.
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Shrinking bird populations are a sign of the 6th mass extinctionSince the 1500s, human activity has killed off 680 mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, and fish species.
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"This means that sooner or later human activity will introduce pathogens to Antarctic fauna that could cause mass deaths and even local extinctions," González-Solís said.
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OMAN: Around half of respondents from Oman believe climate change is somewhat impacted by human activity, but only 43% place the majority of blame on humans.
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SWEDEN: About half of the respondents from Sweden believe climate change is caused partially by human activity, but only 36% assign humans most of the blame.
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Meanwhile, 40% of Protestants and 45% of Catholics believe climate change is due to human activity, according to a 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center.
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Once upon a time, human activity increased average global temperatures and ice caps melted: as if the whole planet stood there... WITH THE FRIDGE DOOR OPEN.
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But that assumption increasingly lies on shaky ground—young Republicans are much more likely than their elders to accept that human activity is driving climate change.
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Despite the solid scientific consensus that human activity is driving climate change, acknowledgement of that across the political spectrum has remained largely unchanged for two decades.
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" Perry added, "to stand up and say that 100 percent of global warming is because of human activity, I think on its face, is just indefensible.
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With the increase in human activity on beaches, these animals don't get time to rest and regain their energy, which is something they would normally do.
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And because of human activity, emissions are now higher than at any time in the last 66 million years, according to research published in Nature Geoscience.
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Our current era is so thoroughly dominated by human activity that we've literally left our mark in stone: Plastics are now forming a new geological stratum.
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The extinction of species by human activity continues to accelerate, fast enough to eliminate more than half of all species by the end of this century.
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Worldwide, forests store about one billion to two billion tons of carbon annually, offsetting a chunk of the roughly 10 billion tons emitted by human activity.
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The Endangered Species Act was created in 1973 under President Nixon with bipartisan support to help conserve wildlife at risk of extinction because of human activity.
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Mid- to low-latitude glaciers, on the other hand, tend to be more accessible and lie at the heart of thousands of years of human activity.
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By offering communities a system that allows all human activity to be automatically tracked, recorded, and algorithmically scrutinized, Vumacam is creating a public-private surveillance state.
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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.
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That means fossil-fuel emissions from human activity — namely the production and burning of fossil fuels — were underestimated by 25 to 40 percent, the researchers said.
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, livestock accounts for 14.5 percent of annual worldwide greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activity.
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While most of the world agrees that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are creating a climate crisis, there's little consensus regarding how to address it.
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It was good to hear him acknowledge that climate change is linked to human activity, and that maybe waterboarding isn't such a great idea after all.
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Trump has expressed skepticism about whether human activity drives climate change, and he has railed against Obama's efforts to combat it by targeting carbon dioxide emissions.
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The official account of Joshua Tree National Park on Wednesday tweeted that there's an "overwhelming consensus" that human activity is the driving force behind climate change.
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"An overwhelming consensus—over 85033%—of climate scientists agree that human activity is the driving force behind today's rate of global temperature increase," the account tweeted.
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"Before that I was saying, yes the climate is changing, but I wasn't ready to say that the change was caused by human activity," he said.
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The biggest public debate -- fueled by high-profile climate skeptics like US President Donald Trump -- is around whether climate change is being caused by human activity.
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Their report said there was a 95% chance that human activity in the past 50 years had directly resulted in increasing the temperature of the earth.
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As part of its assessment, the USGS also identified more than 21 specific areas east of the Rockies where human activity has induced earthquakes since 1980.
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"Hardly any place on earth carries no signs of human activity," said Jerzy Szwagrzyk of the University of Agriculture in Krakow, an ecology and forestry expert.
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When I describe my work overall as creating vivid backdrops for human activity, I'm pretty sure that the studio is the original backdrop I'm referring to!
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His views have evolved, however, and he now supports the mainstream scientific consensus that human activity is causing Earth's climate to change on an unprecedented scale.
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Storms like Hurricane Harvey and Irma are stark reminders of the devastation that human activity has on the environment, and the important role local leaders play.
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Last month he said he was not convinced that carbon dioxide from human activity is the main driver of climate change, a position widely embraced by scientists.
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Shi went on to explain that human activity could have led to an increase of "atmospherically soluble iron" in our oceans several times since the Industrial Revolution.
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Although flamingos are ubiquitous as plastic lawn ornaments and as kitschy fashion patterns, the birds themselves are less visible, and are under threat due to human activity.
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President Donald Trump has frequently expressed scepticism about whether global warming is a result of human activity and has withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris climate accord.
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"The witness panel does not really represent the vast majority of climate scientists who have concluded that there is a connection between human activity and climate," Rep.
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Pope Francis has made defence of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
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Furthermore, when autistic identity is defined as antithetical to language, autistic people are denied selfhood on the grounds that they are disconnected from a fundamental human activity.
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Of course, the Republicans who control Congress — and who deny that human activity is causing climate change — are already denouncing the idea, as is the oil industry.
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In a poll conducted by the Pew Research Centre in 2016, just 48% of respondents said they believed that the Earth was warming because of human activity.
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APWe all hoped EPA head, Scott Pruitt, would eventually face consequences when he falsely claimed that there was "tremendous disagreement" about whether human activity cause global warming.
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Computers and the algorithms that drive them can only get better, and it'll only be a matter of time before they excel at nearly any human activity.
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New research suggests this isn't a new phenomenon, and that several quakes felt in Los Angeles during the early 220th century were likely caused by human activity.
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He made his case for taking action during remarks near Lake Tahoe Wednesday, warning against electing leaders who deny warming temperatures are the result of human activity.
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You have to read, or listen to scientists, to know that the overwhelming body of scientific evidence shows us that climate change is caused by human activity.
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The mockingbird, for example, famously mimics the sounds produced by other bird species, and sometimes even noises produced by human activity, like car alarms and police sirens.
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Moving to New York City threw me for another loop, because I had a hard time seeing beyond the extreme dominance of human activity all around me.
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It&aposs no secret that human activity is changing the climate , and one new study shows how our influence is seriously affecting Earth&aposs seasons and atmosphere.
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Most Republicans in Washington refuse to publicly acknowledge a problem nearly all other political leaders on this planet realize is real: climate change caused by human activity.
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Pope Francis has made defense of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
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Yet even without this data, it is clear that animal pollinators are increasingly threatened by human activity, which may have far reaching consequences for human food supply.
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Additionally, 28500 percent of millennials say there is solid evidence climate change is the result of human activity — for no other generation is this a majority perspective.
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In 2015, he published a papal encyclical blaming climate change on human activity and sharply criticizing world leaders for not moving quickly enough to address the problem.
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But Bossert did say that hurricane seasons are "cyclical," which climate change skeptics have said shows that stronger seasons aren't necessarily caused or exacerbated by human activity.
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Some effects of human activity, such as ocean acidification, could also have an impact on jellyfish habitats and populations, but Dr. Govindarajan said that remains a mystery.
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The big picture: Trump has long mocked the idea of climate change, despite overwhelming scientific evidence showing temperatures around the globe are increasing due to human activity.
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INDIA: 71% of people polled believe that the climate is changing mostly due to humans, with another 23% blaming climate change at least partially on human activity.
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GREAT BRITAIN: Over half of respondents from the UK see humans as the main cause for climate change, with another 37% assigning partial blame to human activity.
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MALAYSIA: 48% of Malaysian respondents believe climate change is largely man-made; nearly the same amount at 43 believe it's only partly to do with human activity.
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He was previously skeptical that human activity via greenhouse gas emissions is the main cause of global warming, but he has since endorsed the scientific consensus view.
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Democrats tried to get Trump's nominees to say they do not agree with the scientific consensus that human activity is the chief contributor to climate change. Sen.
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Typically, up to a third of carbon-dioxide emissions from human activity, such as automobile driving or steel production, is absorbed by forests, the study's authors said.
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The consensus among climate scientists is that global warming is real and is primarily caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activity.
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Some states say the new standard would be extraordinarily hard, if not impossible, to meet, especially due to ozone pollution that is not caused by human activity.
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"The real question is exactly what role (human) activity is playing on red tides," says Dr. Mike Parsons, a red tide expert at Florida Gulf Coast University.
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Trump, Pruitt and Energy Secretary Rick Perry deny the consensus among climate scientists that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are the primary cause of global warming.
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Where Zinke, the timber industry, property owners, and environmental groups do agree is that California's wildfire problem stems in large part from deliberate decisions and human activity.
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The Ross Sea, nicknamed "The Last Ocean," has remained relatively untouched by human activity, pollution, and invasive species, largely due to its remote location and formidable conditions.
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Republican lawmakers said at a hearing in May that rocks tumbling into the ocean were causing sea levels to rise, not warmer temperatures fueled by human activity.
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In 2015, he published a papal encyclical blaming climate change on human activity and sharply criticizing world leaders for not moving quickly enough to address the problem.
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"Reversing that approach would leave the homeowner at the mercy of advancing technology — including imaging technology that could discern all human activity in the home," Scalia wrote.
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A substantial component of this rise, which is accelerating the increased frequency of disruptive "nuisance" flooding in dozens of coastal American cities, is because of human activity.
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The big picture: The report presents a wide-ranging look at the effects of human activity and climate change on lands, and how land use creates emissions.
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News events don't get much bigger than the current pandemic, and Maxar's satellites have been documenting the virus's spread by way of its effect on human activity.
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Biological methane is released by the decay of plants and animals in environments like wetlands, but also from human activity like cattle farming, landfills and rice fields.
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This raises important ecological questions about the impact of human activity on other entities, whether lakes, glaciers, or fish that use sound to navigate their underwater world.
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The issue is how much we contribute to it from a human activity perspective, and then what can be done about it from a process perspective, Chris.
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He said that, like many Republicans, he was skeptical that human activity was the main cause of warming, but that the stakes were too high for inaction.
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Windmills, as stand-ins for human activity, absorb and reflect Mondrian's masterful light – sometimes glowing red in direct sunlight, and other times cloaked in shade near sundown.
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Until about the 1970s, scientists had a strong sense that human activity was changing the climate, but they debated whether the planet would get warmer or colder.
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The consensus among climate scientists is that climate change is real and primarily caused by carbon dioxide emissions from human activity, including burning coal at power plants.
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Current research does provide viable methods to identify, scale, and estimate blue-carbon sequestration value around sample sites, and their vulnerability to natural forces and human activity.
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Pryor and his colleagues also uncovered signs of knapping, the process by which stones are shaped into tools, indicating that human activity was clustered around the firepits.
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It not only reinforces that human activity can affect the climate, but it also shows that there are natural ways to address the modern global warming problem.
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The Sumatran orangutan is listed as a critically endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which pointed to human activity as the leading cause.
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Though Bernhardt hasn't denied the role of human activity in climate change, like Trump, he has framed it as a contest between the economy and the environment.
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He acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times that human activity has "some connectivity" to global warming, and has said clean water is important to him.
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As with every kind of living thing on the planet, human activity can upend the natural order for insects, freeing them of natural predators and bolstering their spawn.
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And with 60% of primate species already vulnerable to habitat loss and human activity, researchers are pleading that conservationists consider both human and climatic impacts in their efforts.
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In 2018, the UN reported that human activity has already raised Earth's temperature by 1°, and if we don't do something drastic soon, the results will be catastrophic.
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The first such study, co-authored by Dr Stott in 2004, found that the likelihood of the 2003 European summer had doubled as a result of human activity.
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Commercial aviation accounts for about 2 percent of the global total of carbon dioxide emitted annually by human activity, or a little less than is produced by Germany.
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Scientists widely agree that human activity is the main driver of global warming, and that we have to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid its worst impacts.
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While technology will help unclutter the hiring funnel, what differentiates Revature, Avenica and these emerging intermediaries is that they haven't forgotten that hiring is a very human activity.
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The result is that while around three-quarters of Americans believe climate change is real, just over half of the public think it's mostly driven by human activity.
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These are places whose skies haven't been washed out by light from human activity, where you still see the stars or the glow of the Milky Way galaxy.
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These days, the atmosphere really does reflect human activity, and, as in our most ancient stories, our own behavior really is bringing disastrous weather down on our heads.
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When I was born in October 1991, the concentration of carbon dioxide — the primary greenhouse gas emitted by human activity — in our atmosphere was 355 parts per million.
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President Donald Trump continues to cast doubt on the consensus among climate scientists and U.S. government agencies that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are warming the planet.
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More than 85033 percent of Americans acknowledge that global warming is happening and more than 90 percent of published climate scientists believe human activity is the primary cause.
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And we have always known for centuries that if you suffer forceful and/or repetitive blows to your head in whatever human activity, you will suffer brain damage.
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It does not include any witnesses that represent the vast majority of climate scientists who say climate change is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
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Fast facts: Most scientists agree human activity, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels, has been the primary contributor to Earth's aggregate temperature going up this past century.
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Between the lines: The Trump administration released without political influence a statutorily required report earlier this year confirming in great depth that human activity is driving climate change.
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"Ninety-seven percent of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change," Sanders said.
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"The issue is how much we contribute to it from a human activity perspective and then what can we done about it from a process perspective," he said.
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"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," Pruitt said.
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Why should it be free of oversight when every other sphere of human activity is governed by laws and codes of conduct agreed upon by society at large?
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In other words, when you have direct experience with how human activity is changing the planet, when you've got that direct experience, then politics go out the window.
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While Republican politicians debate whether or not climate change is due to human activity or is happening at all, millennials, including young Republicans, are unified on this issue.
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There are many other live streams of Jackson Hole, but none are so popular — presumably because they don't involve human activity and that's what we're all here for!
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Trump tapped Myron Ebell, who has questioned whether human activity is contributing to climate change and has fought against environmental regulations, to lead transition efforts for the EPA.
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Trump told the Post "I don't see" climate change as man-made, despite the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community that climate change is caused by human activity.
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Both Pruitt and current acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler have expressed skepticism of the scientific consensus that the climate is changing and that human activity is the primary cause.
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DENMARK: Almost half of all surveyed Danes believe climate change can be partially attributed to human activity, while 2 in 5 believe it's mostly caused by human action.
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Add that to pollution from gold mining in Kachin state, up the Irrawaddy river, and it's easy to see why the dolphins stand no chance against human activity.
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That finding says carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet, endanger public health and welfare.
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Among Republicans with high science knowledge (determined by the number of correct responses they gave to science-related questions), 23 percent said human activity was causing climate change.
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The true aim of these groups - along with their allies at the Center for Biological Diversity and Western Watersheds Project - is a western landscape devoid of human activity.
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"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," Pruitt said.
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Some even claim that grizzly bears are more threatened than ever by climate change and human activity, and have questioned the science the FWS used to propose delisting.
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The Environmental Protection Agency downplayed the role that human activity has played in accelerating climate change in talking points distributed via an internal memo, reports The Huffington Post.
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Thirteen percent of Americans agree with the sentiment that climate change is real, "but human activity is not responsible at all," according to the survey, The Guardian noted.
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During his campaign, the Republican president called global warming a hoax perpetrated by China and has cast doubt on the degree to which human activity causes climate change.
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We found that most Republicans agreed that climate change is happening, threatens humans and is caused by human activity — and that reducing carbon emissions would mitigate the problem.
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During the rest of the week, the towel-strewn beach is a sound installation without any human activity: a reminder of the financial burden of producing performance art.
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For example, they often bear the marks of thousands of years of human activity, presenting a conception of America very different than the one I grew up with.
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The discovery upends the established timeline of bedbug evolution, and could help to anticipate the pest's next moves in an era of climate change and expansive human activity.
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Climate scientists warned that Australia's fires were a harbinger of what was to come for the rest of the world as the planet warmed due to human activity.
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The extent to which these emissions cause rising methane levels has long been debated among scientists — livestock, landfills and other sources linked to human activity also emit methane.
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The warming trend also bears the unmistakable sign of human activity, which emits tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, scientists say.
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Instead of artfully depicting wild animals and glossing over the threats they face, Our Planet repeatedly reminded viewers that human activity was destroying the world depicted on screen.
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"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.
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That's a sign that conservation efforts have begun to reverse the effects of the human activity that wiped out the original bamboo-filled panda habitats in the first place.
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Most of the state's current seismic activity is probably or "almost certainly" the result of human activity, but man-made quakes occurred as early as 1925, the study found.
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She highlighted recent decisions by courts in New Zealand and India to give rivers the same legal rights as human beings, because they were heavily threatened by human activity.
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Fire officials are still investigating the cause of the Hill fire, but they have ruled out all potential causes other than human activity, according to a Cal Fire statement.
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This week, as president-elect, Mr Trump said he has an "open mind" on the Paris deal and that there is "some connectivity" between human activity and climate change.
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The former represents some of the worst of our land transformations, home to the refuse generated by human activity; the latter, what is at stake for generations to come.
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The next morning, Trump's campaign manager said Trump doesn't believe what nearly all climate scientists consider a fact: that human activity is contributing to the warming of the earth.
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"What they say almost unanimously, overwhelmingly, is that A, climate change is real, and B, it is caused by human activity," he said before warming about its "catastrophic" effects.
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Due to human activity over the past century, the Baltic Sea contains one of the largest "dead zones" of oxygen-starved water in the world—over 60,000 square kilometres.
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NESL focuses on collecting, storing, and sharing seeds from plants that tend to live in close association with dense human populations or in areas heavily impacted by human activity.
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Linger a while and you'll find the water bottles emptied by thirsty migrants, tires discarded by federal agents, and other traces of human activity that intrigue photographer Richard Misrach.
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"In most probability this conference represents the best opportunity we will ever have to reverse the cycle of decline that human activity has brought upon the Ocean," he said.
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Some outside experts said they were deeply skeptical that the site is as old as the scientists claim, or that the mastodon bones show definitive signs of human activity.
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Inhofe has made a name for himself nationally for doubting the scientific consensus that the climate is changing and human activity through greenhouse gas emissions is the principal cause.
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The images are nearly all-black except for the lighted windows scattered throughout the urban landscapes, evidence of tenuous human activity amid the darkened office blocks and apartment towers.
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A recent study estimated that restoring the world's lost forests could remove two thirds of all the planet-warming carbon that is in the atmosphere because of human activity.
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So if Trump simply refuses to even acknowledge that the world is getting hotter because of human activity, what will the next four years of environmentalist politics look like?
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All around me were noises that very nearly resembled the noises of human activity — chatter without words, chewing without food, drunkenness without the buzz, and music without the music.
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It holds that the most precious activities are those done simply for the hell of it, and that art is in this sense the paradigm of authentic human activity.
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"Science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity, in some manner, impacts that change," Environmental Protection Agency nominee Scott Pruitt said during his Wednesday hearing.
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Less than 25 percent of the Earth's land surface has escaped the substantial impacts of human activity—and by 2050, this will have fallen to less than 10 percent.
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My mother says that it's a nice thought, but that I shouldn't trust "human activity" to mean "friendly activity," I should be more wary, have less faith in people.
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A Gallup poll in March found that 65 percent of Americans believed that climate change was caused by human activity, an increase of 10 points from a year earlier.
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Events like the disappearance of lions from Europe, as well as the extinction of the mastodon and the woolly mammoth (and climate change), all likely resulted from human activity.
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The idea had widespread support among skeptics of the scientific consensus that the climate is changing primarily due to greenhouse gases emitted from human activity like burning fossil fuels.
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As many as 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction, with human activity contributing to the threats to nature, according to a United Nations report released Monday.
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I rely on the scientific consensus, and the scientific consensus is not that it's really difficult to tell how much of climate change is really attributable to human activity.
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Oil reservoirs served as an excellent primer on microbial influence over habitats (and vice versa), and also how human activity folds another layer of complexity into these natural dynamics.
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All big social media companies still use teams of people in conjunction with algorithms to address these issues because of the nuanced nature of human activity and media controversy.
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What's different now—and what renders the original argument untrue—is that we know climate change is happening now because of human activity, and it's happening faster than ever.
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Heat-trapping emissions from human activity keep rising, air pollution continues to choke cities, and the world is on track to warm by 3°C above pre-industrial levels.
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Los Angeles at the time was the center of the international air, space and tech industries, and Ms. Ressler was drawn to the human activity in these sterile environments.
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"This was an early attempt to get at the ephemeral, sculptural shape of human activity and how buildings and homes take on life and memory once inhabited," he annotates.
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Robotic fish like her could be essential to understanding and protecting marine life in danger of disappearing in a fragile ocean environment, threatened by human activity and climate change.
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" His own agency, he said, has found it "extremely likely that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming, and I have no reason to doubt the science.
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In the Trump administration, "To talk about climate risk when connected to human activity is now a no-no if you want to get government funding," Dr. Sanderson said.
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In this lesson, students use Times reporting to learn about how human activity threatens the Earth's biodiversity, and they research possible solutions that weigh environmental, economic and social concerns.
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But they also worry about someone working out the site's coordinates and harvesting its valuable lumber, or the prospect of other human activity, such as industrial projects, destroying it.
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He also has long expressed doubt about the role of humans in rising global temperatures, despite the scientific consensus that human activity is the dominant cause of climate change.
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" One is the pressure to get things done as quickly as possible, and the other is the desire to create "a very effective system for organizing human activity together.
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But Ms. Handel repeatedly declined to respond to Mr. Ossoff's persistent demand that she take a position on whether climate change is a serious phenomenon driven by human activity.
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The study's authors say the increase in both frequency and intensity of these hot days and nights are mostly caused by planet-warming gas pollution from human activity -- i.e.
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For years, researchers noticed that the aquatic snakes living in waters near human activity had jet-black skin, but most others, in more pristine waters, were speckled or banded.
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Because climate change is already shrinking the Arctic sea ice cover, more human activity in this still-isolated part of the world is increasingly likely as navigation becomes easier.
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Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 22020 as part of a response to our growing awareness of the impacts of human activity on the natural environment.
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After all, in debates over contentious issues, such as when human life begins or whether human activity is warming the planet, appeals to the truth tend to be incendiary.
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They're remarkably well-preserved considering their age, helped by the desert's dry climate and winds that sweep away the sand, but are being obscured by floods and human activity.
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Neither Mr. Montzka nor Jim Butler, director of NOAA's global monitoring division, would discuss the agency's decision not to highlight human activity as the main driver of greenhouse gases.
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The Earth's climate is warming significantly and there's no doubt that human activity (particularly the burning of fossil fuels) is responsible for the majority of the warming since 1950.
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Long, during an interview with Bloomberg published on Wednesday, said he said that "intrinsic cycles" and deep-water currents contributed to a warming planet — but is human activity responsible?
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Poor forestry management practises are a factor (apparently) and that is enough to quell any AGW [anthropogenic global warming, or in other words global warming caused by human activity] talk.
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It's also scary to know that climate change is due to human activity, and we continue to ignore it, and the only voice that we really have is through voting.
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Trump publicly doubts climate change, yet in official moves, EPA and other agencies stick largely with the scientific consensus, which is that human activity is driving the Earth's temperature up.
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Uninhabited for most of history, the continent is now home to just a few thousand people (mostly researchers and associated staff), making for an immense space with little human activity.
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"This is a kind of action that comes from a certain kind of mindset, the mindset that wants to repress that climate change is due to human activity," Porco said.
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The lunar lunacy effect, also known as the Transylvania effect (spooky, right?), posits that the full moon throws human activity, from crime rates to even childbirth, completely out of whack.
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Solutions vary, including a camera that inserts a digital watermark in undoctored images, and a recent digital forensics technique that reads the "soft bio-metric markers" of real human activity.
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Lead pollution is typically considered a hallmark of industrial society, but a growing body of research suggests human activity has been fouling the air with harmful heavy metals for millennia.
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So imagine the surprise of scientists to learn of a new study published in Nature claiming that evidence has been found showing human activity on the continent 130,000 years ago.
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The exhibition includes large murals accompanied by short documentary films, three augmented reality installations, and dozens of photographs by Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky of landscapes forever altered by human activity.
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Details: This year the AGGI rose to a value of 1.43, meaning that the increase in the atmosphere's heat-trapping capacity attributable to human activity has risen 43% since 1990.
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There's consensus: Of the peer-reviewed climate science papers that take a position on climate change, more than 97% agree that it is real and likely caused by human activity.
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Although signs of human activity were there, humans weren't; Lille had become an antiseptic world barren of feeling or context, like the all-too-perfect set in The Truman Show.
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Stephens accepted the scientific consensus that human activity is driving climate change, but he characterized the uncertainty and what that means in a less pressing manner than most scientists do.
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Clothing on the racks doesn't actually include what you see on the runways, but rather toned-down versions that allow for real human activity, like sitting and using your hands.
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For most of recorded history, the struggle to eat has been the main focus of human activity, and all but a handful of people were either farmers or farm workers.
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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.
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Most of Texas's political leaders are complacent about climate change, and publicly express doubt that it is happening—or, at least, that human activity has anything to do with it.
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" In 2006, a study out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stated that human activity is, "likely responsible for long-term trends in tropical Atlantic warmth and tropical cyclone activity.
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In recent years, it has distanced itself from climate skepticism and funded research that aligns with the scientific consensus that climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
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"This president and his White House, they think that they can just dismiss the overwhelming consensus of the scientific community that climate change is caused by human activity," he said.
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Scalise objected to the scientific consensus that the climate is changing due mainly to human activity through greenhouse gas emissions and accused carbon tax proponents of trying to control weather.
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Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.) told one town hall that human activity is only "a tiny part of" the cause of climate change, according to A News Cafe, a local website.
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They're fine with keeping quiet in the face of major scientific reports, like the one released Monday saying that 1 million species now risk going extinct due to human activity.
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Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, told CNN Trump doesn't think climate change is a hoax, only that he doesn't believe the broad scientific consensus that it's caused by human activity.
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Here's what I say about President Trump and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt: They don't publicly acknowledge the mainstream scientific consensus that human activity is driving the Earth's aggregate temperature up.
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Since 1900, an estimated 64-71 percent of the world's natural wetland area has been lost due to human activity, according to the U.N.'s 2018 World Water Development Report.
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She accepts that human activity is causing climate change — and worries that it will threaten the health of the next generation, including her 9-year-old grandson, who has asthma.
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I may have already understood that narrative is a primary human activity, as he points out in an essay in this collection, our way to make sense of the world.
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It would amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit candidates and political parties from using any bots intended to impersonate or replicate human activity for public communication.
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"I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation," he said at a New York luncheon in February.
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Human activity has decimated roughly 29% (almost 3 billion) of bird populations over the past 50 years in the U.S. and Canada, including meadowlarks, swallows and sparrows, scientists announced Thursday.
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All told, the scientists say their findings show that oil and gas production account for nearly half of all the methane in our air that is attributable to human activity.
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"All of this noise and dust and human activity seems to be a much bigger factor shaping the abundance and distribution of the mammals than the radiation effects," says Mousseau.
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Story at a glance A perfect storm of climate change, extreme weather and pressure from human activity is threatening to collapse Earth's most biodiverse ecosystems, according to a new study.
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Take, for example, the fact that nearly eight in 10 Americans believe climate change is caused by human activity, according to a Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
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He has also in the past questioned whether the climate is really warming, though more recently he said "there's a warming taking place" and human activity is contributing to it.
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The findings were published Friday in the journal Science Advances, and add to the growing evidence showing that human activity risks irreversibly changing the rainforest -- and in turn, the planet.
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Critics say the Trump administration rule was especially startling in the wake of a United Nations report estimating there are 2202 million species threatened with extinction due to human activity.
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The biggest extra effect of human activity, though, may well be putting more property at risk as a more populous and richer world concentrates itself in cities by the sea.
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Critics say the Trump administration rule was especially startling in the wake of a United Nations report estimating there are 85033 million species threatened with extinction due to human activity.
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But in a natural world affected by human activity, ecologists and conservationists worry that hybridization can upset ecological balances and undermine the survival of species involved in such a blend.
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That is a relevant message to keep in mind as we enter the age of the Anthropocene, a time shaped by a sixth mass extinction event caused by human activity.
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Morton argues that since the invention of the steam engine by James Watt — which extracted and sent decaying matter into the atmosphere — there is no untangling human activity from nature.
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The same is true of the GOP's grassroots: In a 2016 Pew survey, only 23 percent of Republican voters said they believed Earth was getting warmer because of human activity.
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"These factors may increase the need for search and rescue capabilities, monitoring of increased shipping and other human activity and the capability to respond to crises or contingencies in the region."
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What differentiates these tools, say their makers, is their ability to detect patterns to identify human activity in a noisy stream of images and signals coming from a patchwork of sensors.
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"Immediately when we saw that we thought, 'Wow, that's people lighting fires inside that rock shelter, that's human activity,'" he said, admitting he had no idea it would be so old.
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A site in southern Oregon, which contains some of North America's oldest preserved evidence of human activity, was also once home to the bed bug's not-too-distant cousins, archeologists found.
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By squaring audience expectations against these remembered and recreated sounds, Wood and Macdonald want to encourage conversations about what changes human activity has already made, and what can still be done.
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With conservationists warning of a mass extinction of wild animal species thanks to human activity, the decisions nature-shows' producers make have repercussions beyond what simply makes for good televised drama.
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With the continued development of productive forces, human activity continually increases, and this increase in turn impinges on the restrictions of national and regional boundaries, making the globalization of production possible.
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The very good news comes from the Global Carbon Project, an international team of Earth system scientists tasked with assessing how much CO2 human activity generates, and where it ends up.
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"Measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact," Pruitt said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday.
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Since getting confirmed, Bridenstine has made it clear that his thoughts on climate change have evolved and that he does believe that human activity is causing the Earth to heat up.
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A few years ago a subcommission of the ICS set up the Anthropocene working group, which has now suggested that human activity has left an indelible mark on the stratigraphic record.
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In the span of a few centuries, human activity has pushed the CO2 concentrations north of 400 ppm, with more carbon added daily a rate unprecedented since the dinosaurs went extinct.
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" The bottom line: "Essentially it's full steam ahead on pretty much every human activity, from space to seabed, with the objective of becoming the world's leader in all of these things.
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A 2015 Pew study found that only 28 percent of white Evangelicals believe the Earth is warming due to human activity, and only 24 percent viewed it as a serious problem.
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In a commentary published in Nature, he said that, to prove this is truly evidence of human activity, more information is needed about how people even arrived there so long ago.
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Scott Pruitt, the Republican attorney general of Oklahoma, claimed during his Senate confirmation hearing that climate experts are still debating the extent to which human activity is driving up global temperatures.
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"Every walk of life, and every part of human activity, will be transformed by augmented reality," said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, speaking at this week's Wall Street Journal D Live conference.
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A portmanteau of "solace" and "nostalgia," mental health professionals are increasingly recognizing this experience in patients who have witnessed their local wilderness areas destroyed by either natural disasters or human activity.
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While NOAA says that climate change is happening and that human activity, via greenhouse gas emissions, is the main cause, Trump has expressed various kinds of doubt of that scientific consensus.
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Not only does that provide perspective on the origins and past evolution of lizards, it also spotlights their future on the planet, which is increasingly at risk due to human activity.
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Like Pruitt, Wheeler also questions the mainstream climate science consensus, namely that the burning of fossil fuels, along with other human activity, is driving Earth's temperature beginning in this last century.
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Human activity, specifically deforestation and greenhouse-gas emissions, are to blame: Overall, extinction rates are 1,000 times higher than they would be if humans weren't around, according to a 2014 study.
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Inadequate fencing, or the absence of it, seem to leave young patches of forest at the mercy of hungry mule deer, which are seeking refuge from hunters and increasing human activity.
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The president in the past has dismissed climate change as a hoax and his top cabinet officials have questioned the established science that rising global temperatures are caused by human activity.
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" —Roshni Ravindranathan, oncolytic virotherapy lab manager, University of Pittsburgh "Science is a human activity and is therefore prone to the same biases that infect almost every sphere of human decision-making.
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To start thinking about ideas around the anthropocene (the geological age of human activity), really you need to step outside the very day and how we think about time and space.
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A new Pew Research Center poll found more than a third of Millennial Republicans agree that Earth is "warming mostly due to human activity," compared with 18 percent of older Republicans.
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According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, Arctic sea ice cover has declined by 30 percent over the past 265 years as a likely result of human activity.
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According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, Arctic sea ice cover has declined by 213 percent over the past 280 years as a likely result of human activity.
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According to Galloway, Leach, and colleagues, so much anthropogenic reactive nitrogen has been produced that by 2010, human activity was creating at least five times as much as were natural systems.
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Electricity generation had been the largest source of air pollution from human activity tied to early deaths, but since 2018, emissions from commercial and residential activity have become the biggest contributor.
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The uncertainty stemming from the recent increases in carbon dioxide is all the more acute given that global emissions from human activity seem to have stabilized over the past three years.
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Since he was elected president, Mr. Trump has acknowledged there may be "some connectivity" between human activity and climate change, and he promised to keep an open mind on the subject.
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An additional $200,000 went to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank that maintains that scientists have not proven that human activity is the main cause of rising emissions.
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But while administrations change, one thing appears to be stable: Most Americans already know that climate change is real and that human activity since the Industrial Age is the major cause.
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Sixty percent of all animals with a backbone have been wiped out by human activity in the past 40 years, according to a new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) "Living Planet" report.
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Willeit said that according to the simulation CO2 levels should not be higher than 280 parts per million (ppm) without human activity, but that they are currently 410 ppm and rising.
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President Trump is skeptical of the scientific consensus that greenhouse gases produced by human activity are the main cause of climate change, and he is working to undo Obama's climate policies.
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It seems likely that the rapid local species turnover is new—probably a result of human activity such as chopping down forests, draining marshes, concreting prairies, damming rivers, and changing climate.
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A congressional climate solutions caucus has 26 GOP members; and 85033 percent of Republicans aged 18-30, surveyed last year, said they believed human activity had some impact on climate change.
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With cost effective technology finally available to bring nodules up to the surface, organisms like the casper octopus, so long sheltered from human activity, are going to find themselves in danger.
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Bernie Sanders of Vermont — many are finding it deeply and sadly ironic that the Science Committee doesn't recognize the overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is real and influenced by human activity.
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The scientific community is virtually unanimous in telling us that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is already doing devastating harm to our country and the entire world.
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Let's say, for example, that a border agent at a control center suspects possible unauthorized human activity at a mountainous part of the Texas-Mexico border that's difficult to reach by car.
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Overall, there was an increase in those who said that the Earth is warming due to human activity, from 47% in 2015 to 56% in 20153, according to the Pew Research Center.
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The share of Catholic Democrats (or leaning that way) who said the Earth is warming due to human activity has increased from 63% in 2015 to 80% in 2017, according to Pew.
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt gave his own view on the subject, saying he believes human activity plays a role in global warming, but measuring that contribution with precision is difficult.
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But while this periodic weather pattern is partly to blame for bringing the heat, the central problem remains ongoing climate change as a result of human activity, according to NASA and NOAA.
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Ad fraud detection company Pixalate documented this activity in a recent investigation and dubbed the web properties using it "zombie sites" due to their ability to automatically generate traffic without human activity.
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The worsening of tidal flooding in American coastal communities is largely a consequence of greenhouse gases from human activity, and the problem will grow far worse in coming decades, scientists reported Monday.
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The current warming trend is likely caused by human activity because atmospheric carbon dioxide has dramatically increased since the mid-20th century, coinciding with rapid growth of extractive industries, according to NASA.
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But increased human activity, particularly surrounding fisheries and their nets, which inadvertently entangle penguins and also reduce biodiversity amongst their habitats, is also playing a big role in speeding up their decline.
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Many of his top cabinet officials — including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt — share Trump's skepticism toward the mainstream scientific consensus that global temperatures are rising, and that human activity is largely to blame.
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Just last week a report revealed that at least 1 million species were at risk of extinction thanks to human activity and the carbon emissions that are a byproduct of economic development.
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And he wanted to convey to the public in a fresh way just how dramatic this recent warming is — warming that is undoubtedly tied to greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. Why?
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A Pew Research poll in October found that more than three quarters of Republican voters and nearly a third of Democratic voters don't think climate change is caused primarily by human activity.
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Last year, a Pew survey found that the number of Americans who believe human activity is causing climate change was in a minority at 48 percent—virtually unchanged from six years ago.
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Even if companies started using carbon dioxide that was captured, the amount would be less than 22 percent of the roughly 32 billion metric tons of CO2 emitted annually by human activity.
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All of these samples are collected at pristine sites far away from human activity, such as by drilling into the polar icecaps or using a magnetic sled to dredge the ocean floor.
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As their migratory path up and down the East Coast is one of the most active for fishing and shipping, the whale is particularly susceptible to the dangers posed by human activity.
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So the fact that her own party — the GOP — has had a track record of ignoring climate change, or even denying that it's caused by human activity, has been frustrating to her.
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Human activity is the primary cause of rising global temperatures in recent decades, and there is no convincing evidence to the contrary, according to a report issued Friday by 13 U.S. agencies.
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Last week he appeared to soften his stance, telling The New York Times he was keeping "an open mind" and that there might be "some connectivity" between human activity and global warming.
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Coral can be severely damaged by rising water temperatures, which cause acidification, as well as by pollution and human activity like tourism, fishing and shipping – prompting some governments to restrict such activities.
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Though scientific knowledge is roughly the same among people in both parties, the poll found, that knowledge is no indication of whether Republicans think the earth is warming because of human activity.
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Pruitt claimed during an interview on MSNBC's "Squawk Box" that carbon dioxide emissions were not definitively responsible for contributing to climate change and questioned whether human activity was linked to the phenomenon.
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This key output of the IAMs is a calculation of how much the economy gains over time for each ton of carbon dioxide that human activity does not send into the air.
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While we don't yet know how severe Florence will be and how much to attribute to climate change, there's good reason to be worried that Florence was made worse by human activity.
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The former Oklahoma attorney general had previously said that he was unsure about the extent of the role of human activity in global warming, but he went further in a CNBC interview.
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