"Human timescales" refer to the timeframe or duration that is relevant and understandable to humans. It means considering the passage of time from a perspective that aligns with human capabilities and experiences. Full definition
Any subsequent recovery is on such a long timescale as to make the die - back effectively irreversible on human timescales of the next 1 — 2 centuries.» (bitsofscience.org)
Importantly, he pointed out that human beings were now carrying out a large - scale geophysical experiment of a kind that could not have happened in the past or be reproduced in the future - an allusion, perhaps, to the growing realisation of the finite, one - off nature of the fossil fuels, being as they are a non-renewable resource over human timescales. (skepticalscience.com)
«One of the great challenges in astronomy is that some of the most important phenomena occur on astronomical timescales, yet astronomers are generally limited to much shorter human timescales,» said co-author Keivan Stassun, professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt. (astronomynow.com)