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Human made. In the context of greenhouse gases, emissions that are produced as the result of human activities. (source: EPA)

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Anthropogenic effects or processes are those that are derived from human activities, as opposed to effects or processes that occur in the natural environment without human influences.

The term is often used in the context of environmental externalities in the form of chemical or biological wastes that are produced as by-products of otherwise purposeful human activities.

Anthropogenic sources include industry, agriculture, mining, transportation, construction, and habitations.

Natural born killers  -  22 Oct 2007
separationsNOW.com (subscription),The clays are several million years old and the congener distribution of the dioxins was noticeably different from that typically found in anthropogenic

CO2 in air grows fast: Study  -  22 Oct 2007
Times of India,...absorb what they can has escalated over the past 50 years, showing a decrease in the planet's ability to absorb anthropogenic (human-made) emissions.

Today’s forecast: yet another blast of hot air  -  22 Oct 2007
Times Online,Perhaps, when similar things are happening 190 years later, the Royal Society should accept that anthropogenic carbon dioxide is unlikely to be the main

Yellow Perch Regulations Amendments Proposed  -  22 Oct 2007
Maryland Department of Natural Resources (press release),Yellow perch populations show positive signs of recovery due to natural and anthropogenic restocking efforts. The goal of declaring these creeks as

Climate Change 2007  -  22 Oct 2007
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)...and that the principal cause of global warming is anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, especially CO2,� Chiavetta notes.

Sweatin’ the Mediterranean Heat  -  22 Oct 2007
RealClimate...and then explore the links between the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Mediterranean drought and anthropogenic global warming (AGW).

Stress factor  -  22 Oct 2007
Orlando Sentinel,...in no uncertain terms that climate change caused by anthropogenic global warming is one of the greatest security threats facing the world today.

Letter: Gore prize and a rule in science  -  22 Oct 2007
2TheAdvocate,That document indicates (Page 10), “Attribution studies have established anthropogenic contributions to all of these changes …

Exit Glacier or Exit: Glacier?  -  22 Oct 2007
New West,Is the scientific journey still out on global warming and the anthropogenic (ie, human) causes of rapid climate change? No. If you’re in doubt,

Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory and Busted Sod  -  Oct 16, 2007
American Thinker,By Rosslyn Smith Anthropogenic theories of climate change have a neglected and tragic precedent of acceptance by consensus. Before Al Gore's Nobel prize for

King of fish threatened  -  Oct 17, 2007
Scotsman,But Richard Shelton, research director at the trust, does not believe in "anthropogenic" global warming and is convinced the changing climate is the

Racing to the aid of king coal  -  Oct 16, 2007
Courier Mail,While no party to the proceedings, including Xstrata, questioned that anthropogenic greenhouse emissions are contributing to climate change and pose a

Misplaced Trust  -  Oct 10, 2007
Wall Street JournalFrom the outset, leading figures within the IPCC process have shared the conviction that anthropogenic global warming presents a threat which demands prompt

Climate change: What's in the rising tide?  -  Oct 17, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),Shifting the effect of anthropogenic nitrogen loading beyond the immediate coastal zone could destabilize ocean ecosystems by acidifying the waters,

Group wants NJDEP to enforce regulations on Atlantic States  -  Oct 17, 2007
PennLive.com,Is Wolfe just smashing sour grapes or does he have a point? Let us know. Read about the 10 worst anthropogenic environmental disasters here.

Something to Sweat: Earth Gets Steamier  -  Oct 10, 2007
LiveScience.com,..."It matches best when you account for both the natural and anthropogenic," said Nathan Gillett of the University of East Anglia, "but it's the anthropogenic

Al Gore As Churchill? | KXNet.com North Dakota News  -  Oct 16, 2007
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck,For one thing, we don’t even really know if global warming is anthropogenic in nature (that is, caused by humans) or if it simply the result of natural

UN Panel Sharing Nobel Prize Is Fundamentally Flawed, Expert Says  -  Oct 12, 2007
Business Media Institute,...“From the outset, leading figures within the IPCC process have shared the conviction that anthropogenic [human-caused] global warming presents a threat

FACTBOX - UN climate panel report's key findings  -  Sep 26, 2007
Reuters India,..."Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic

Urban CO2 Dome (Salt Lake City, UT, USA  -  Oct 2, 2007
CO2 Science Magazine,Anthropogenic activities are generally recognized as being responsible for the historic increase in the air's CO2 content. Hence, it is only logical that

Half of Russia is Natural Reserve  -  Oct 12, 2007
Russia-InfoCenter,However, existing ecosystems succeed in coping with anthropogenic impact. Moreover, 65 per cent of Russian territories are classified as unaffected by human

Stopping Climate Change (or not)  -  Oct 6, 2007
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies,Note that he suggests two different actions: reduction and elimination of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. The first step, substantially reducing greenhouse

Scientific Debate Over Global Warming Is Over  -  Oct 11, 2007
Hamilton College News,..."Unfortunately, this ideologically motivated effort to deny anthropogenic global warming is not just the province of a skeptical fringe; it has been behind

Global Warming Skeptics Not the Same as 'Deniers'  -  Sep 26, 2007
FrontPage magazine.com,Is this anything comparable to anthropogenic global warming skepticism? Clearly not. Anthropogenic global warming skepticism involves serious doubts about

More climate news: the world's getting wetter  -  Oct 10, 2007
Ars Technica,...in specific humidity are in excess of that from solely anthropogenic or natural forcing, but matches the effects of both forcings working together.

It is getting steamy, scientists say  -  Oct 10, 2007
Science Centric,...and found that a significant increase in global mean surface specific humidity over the late twentieth century was mainly due to anthropogenic warming.

Rebuts widely publicized study this summer by UK scientists  -  Oct 2, 2007
WorldNetDaily,..."While that is reasonable," they say, "one cannot distinguish between the effects of anthropogenic gases such as carbon dioxide and of natural greenhouse

Geosciences/ENDY Colloquium  -  Oct 9, 2007
University of Arkansas Daily Headlines,These sediment profiles record information on past climate changes and anthropogenic environmental impacts. He is a member of the department of geological

Global Warming: Keep the Cities Cool  -  Oct 21, 2007
Commodity Online,Between 1960 and 2002, annual anthropogenic global emissions of carbon dioxide, approximately trippled. It rose by about 33% since 1987 alone.

At Witz’ End: Greenhouse Gassing  -  Oct 1, 2007
TheCarConnection.comSuch ran the range of responses to my recent columns on anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming. Not surprisingly, most who bothered to respond

The Truth About Global Warming  -  Sep 26, 2007
ProgressiveU.org,So is there really a consensus on anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming? As part of my Modern Culture and Media course over the summer,

Global Warming Not Affected by Man  -  Sep 25, 2007
NewsMax.com,..."Of that remaining 5 percent, only about 3.6 percent is governed by CO2 and when you break it down even further, studies have shown that the anthropogenic

The Gospel According to Sir John ...  -  Sep 25, 2007
CO2 Science Magazine,Consequently, letting the evolution of technology take its natural unfettered course with respect to anthropogenic CO2 emissions would appear to be the only

Global warning, not whining  -  Sep 24, 2007
RU Daily Targum (subscription),More water vapor can then exist in the warmer atmosphere, thereby exacerbating the anthropogenic warming caused by increased CO2.

Skeptic site offers payout for scientific proof of threat  -  Oct 2, 2007
DailyTech,To win, one must scientifically prove both that anthropogenic (human-generated) greenhouse gases are causing global warming, and that the net results will

The Global Warming Deceptions  -  Oct 19, 2007
Hawaii Reporter,...and that other trends have been observed does not necessarily mean that an anthropogenic [human caused] effect on the climate has been identified.

Rendition and the Modern Issue Film in an Era of High Broderism  -  Oct 19, 2007
Huffington Post,...shifts with no regard to pragmatic reality - the debate in this country has been between those who refuse to acknowledge anthropogenic global warming,

Chemists poke holes in ozone theory  -  Sep 26, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),Long-lived chloride compounds from anthropogenic emissions of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are the main cause of worrying seasonal ozone losses in both

It's As Ridiculous As If They'd Given Goebbels One in 1938 Al ...  -  Oct 13, 2007
uruknet.info,The practical beneficiary of the baseless hysteria over "anthropogenic global warming" is the nuclear power industry. This very fall, as Peter Montague

Africa: Climate change challenges agriculture  -  Oct 19, 2007
AfricaNews,It is perhaps the main source of anthropogenic methane, with some 50 to 100 million metric tons per year emitted from the world’s 130 million hectares of

Northwest Passage: Your questions answered  -  Oct 15, 2007
BBC News,...is to establish the relative contributions that natural processes and so-called anthropogenic effects have on the rates of change of polar ice cover.

Namibia: Gas Emissions Report Out Soon  -  Oct 15, 2007
AllAfrica.com,The assessment is looking into how much anthropogenic gases (man caused) are released into the atmosphere and are sunk. "We have finished collecting data

Killer cow emissions  -  Oct 15, 2007
Los Angeles Times,There's nothing funny about this gas: It has 296 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide, and livestock are its leading anthropogenic (human-caused)

Global Engineering and Climate Change  -  Oct 10, 2007
OpEdNews,Reflect upon these cases for awhile, and you will likely concur with what I immodestly call "Partridge's Corollary to Hardin's Law:" "Today's anthropogenic

Global Warming Delusions at the Wall Street Journal  -  Oct 18, 2007
RealClimateBotkin argues for clear-thinking rationality in the discussion about anthropogenic climate change, against twisting the truth, as it were.

Mental Floss  -  Oct 18, 2007
Columbus Alive,The vast majority of climatologists believe in anthropogenic global warming; ie, that it's our fault. Increased release of carbon dioxide, methane and other

The nature of Asia Minor (1)  -  Oct 18, 2007
Turquie Européenne,What we find are mainly mesophytic forests as in eastern Asia, and like there much of the natural vegetation has been replaced by anthropogenic formations.

The climate crisis for humanity  -  Oct 14, 2007
The Age,...in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.

The Real Al Gore  -  Oct 18, 2007
The Nation.,Already the hysteria about anthropogenic global warming stoked by Al Gore and the Big Lie gang writing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's press

Indian-led Panel Wins Nobel Peace Prize  -  Oct 18, 2007
San Leandro India West,Dismissing the work of IPCC as “agitprop on the supposed threat of anthropogenic global warming,� commentator Alexander Cockburn called the IPCC reports




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