Sentences with phrase «from human timescales»

When suddenly you switch from human timescales to (paleoclimatically relevant) geological timescales — that is literally a 100,000 - 1,000,000 zoom difference — you get to legitimate comparisons.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the Sainte - Justine University Hospital Center and University of Montreal have discovered that the genomic signature inherited by today's 6 million French Canadians from the first 8,500 French settlers who colonized New France some 400 years ago has gone through an unparalleled change in human history, in a remarkably short timescale.

«We tend to think of retroviruses over recent timescales, for example, HIV - 1 crossed from chimpanzees to humans about 100 years ago, leading to the AIDS pandemic,» Katzourakis said.

She will be rejuvenated, replenished, and will rise from the ashes of human civilization, albeit on a timescale that means little to us.

It's both criminal — in that the loss is irretrievable on any humanly meaningful timescale — and criminally stupid — in that while the benefits humans derive from a well - functioning biosphere are difficult to trace in detail, they are almost certainly far, far greater than what we * can * already trace.

Because the planet does not have a natural system capable of cleaning the atmosphere of excess carbon dioxide in a human - relevant timescale, it makes the development of solutions that hold the potential of removing and sequestering large volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere a key priority if we want to avoid climate change.

Confident that the climate was self - regulating on any human timescale, scientists readily dismissed Arrhenius's peculiar speculation about global warming from fossil fuels.