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[an-thruh-puh-jen-ik]

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adjective

caused or produced by humans: anthropogenic air pollution.

Origin:
1885–90; anthropo- + -genic

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Anthropogenic global warming is a scientific hypothesis, not an article of religious or ideological dogma.

People still believe in anthropogenic climate change.

Human-caused global warming is often called anthropogenic climate change.

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Anthropogenic global warming is a scientific hypothesis, not an article of religious or ideological dogma.

People still believe in anthropogenic climate change.

Human-caused global warming is often called anthropogenic climate change.

Louisiana's coastal wetlands are up against a host of natural and anthropogenic factors.

The idea that anthropogenic climate change might cause a war or two sometime in the future is not new.

Decades of scientific research have shown that climate can change from both natural and anthropogenic causes.

So please cool it with exaggerated claims of anthropogenic climate change.

Anthropogenic climate change poses a serious threat to coral reefs around the world.

Consider how effectively they have promoted skepticism about evolution and the anthropogenic causes of climate change.

The three major anthropogenic sources of methane are coal mines, landfills and livestock.

As appears to have happened with the anthropogenic global warming cult.

Global warming is an environmental phenomenon caused by natural and anthropogenic air pollution.

The relavant issue is and always has been anthropogenic warming.

Anthropogenic global warming was created by funding derived from those who have agendas.

The science behind anthropogenic climate change is shoddy.

No, it means that the process of global warming is full or positive feedbacks that amplify the anthropogenic effect.

Today, more and more people are opening their eyes in shock to the nature of anthropogenic climate change.

The rest is the anthropogenic effect plus feedbacks.

The anthropogenic global warming deniers are unethical in their willful ignorance.

Climate scientists understand that the affects of anthropogenic warming are superimposed on natural variability.

The solution to anthropogenic atmospheric carbon-release and carbon-fixing is not chemistry, it is biology.

How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip.

Why else would one deny the realities of anthropogenic climate change in the face of such overwhelming scientific evidence.

Of course on a century-long time scale climate has not been affected by anthropogenic factors:.

Anyone who is still defending anthropogenic global warming as a risk is not worth reading.

Their claim is that anthropogenic global warming began in the late seventies which is patently untrue.

The tip off was the discovery of bacteria that can de-chlorinate a wide variety of anthropogenic compounds.

Even if we're experiencing anthropogenic global climate instability.

The two compounds were believed to come from anthropogenic emissions.

Exhibit number one is the hysterical mob stampede into the anthropogenic global warming hoax.

How much the climate varies by itself and how much can anthropogenic activities affect it is an intriguing question.

Anthropogenic global warming/climate change is a lie.

Understanding climate and crafting responses to anthropogenic climate change are an evolving enterprises.

Science will eventually take the day, it always does: the planet is warming due to anthropogenic factors.

Anthropogenic climate change is almost certainly unavoidable.

But there is no need to commit economic suicide because of anthropogenic global warming scare tactics.

The evidence for an anthropogenic cause is nearly absent.

To limit anyone's right to reproduce on the basis of anthropogenic global warming theory would be absurd.

Wow, someone interested enough in scientific american to post here who is an anthropogenic climate change skeptic.

It is refreshing to see that there are people who are aware of the farce that anthropogenic warming alarmism is today.

So, anthropogenic global warming is a ticking time bomb.

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World English Dictionary

anthropogenic (ˌænθrəpəʊˈdʒɛnɪk)

—*adj*
1.	relating to anthropogenesis
2.	created by people or caused by human activity: anthropogenic pollution

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Word Origin & History

anthropogenic

1889, from anthropogeny (1839), from Gk. *anthropogeneia, from anthropogenes "born of man," from anthropo- + genes (see genus).

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anthropogenic

(ān'thrə-pə-jěn'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
Caused or influenced by humans. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide is that portion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is produced directly by human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, rather than by such processes as respiration and decay.

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