Sentences with phrase «history of the planet»

The fact is that the earth's climate has been changing throughout the entire history of the planet as the result of a complex interaction between many variables.

To predict the future, the researchers looked back into the past geological history of the planet.

The newly discovered process could also lead to new insights into the early history of our planet.

Models have been put forward which suggest that, sometimes, it may be possible to use this ratio to trace the formation history of a planet.

The current CO2 concentration is higher than for 800,000 years, but it is far lower than at almost any time in the previous history of our planet.

In his 2001 book A Short History of Planet Earth, Plimer explains how the warming effect from CO2 kept our planet from freezing into an ice age when the sun was cooler (emphasis mine):

MESSENGER acquired over 1200 images of Mercury's surface during its flyby, and the MESSENGER team is busy examining all of those images in detail, to understand the geologic history of the planet as a whole, from pole to pole.

«You're saying the scientific community knows, and I'm saying people have gotten things wrong throughout the 5,500 - year history of our planet,» he said, then later corrected himself to clarify that he meant human history, not Earth's entire history.

«The Mid Pleistocene Transition is a most important and enigmatic time interval in the more recent climate history of our planet,» says Fischer.

Writing for nonspecialists, Hazen presents the geological and biological history of our planet from the perspective of his «mineral evolution» hypothesis.

Ian Plimer makes an interesting point in his book,» a short history of planet earth», that humans live right on the edge of survival.

As such, zircons can literally tell the entire history of the planet — if you know the right questions to ask.

Musk believes that over the four - and - a-half-billion-year history of planet Earth, a dozen or so events have truly mattered.

Learning more about these gullies will bring us closer to understanding the complicated history of a planet that we hope to colonize one day.

This can in turn help us understand the geomorphological history of the planet and the environment of deposition.

«Although we are still far from knowing to what extent worms and their ilk influenced the geochemical history of our planet, this is a novel and testable hypothesis, which will inspire novel thinking,» writes Filip Meysman, a biogeochemist at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Yerseke, in a commentary on the research in Nature Geoscience.

EarthViewer is like a time machine for exploring the deep history of planet Earth, a tool based on the latest scientific research.

You can spin it all you want, but the numbers and the paleoclimate history of the planet Earth are already starkly clear to most intelligent, credible and inquiring minds.

Let's hope the single issue of CO2 doesn't obscure the very serious threats that do more than just promise to rise coastal sea levels, which by the way, would be changing as they have throughout the long history of the planet anyway; a presumed future history that our technological civilization hopes to experience for some time to come.

Worldwide, March 2010 is the warmest month of March in the recorded history of the planet.

We can do something about it, is to ignore millions of years of geologic history of the planet that we were all taught in grade school.

Uncovering how crust forms is at the heart of understanding the geological history of our planet, Dygert said, but the results could also have implications for our planet's future.

After all, the layer of coal that Stinchcomb and his colleagues have excavated is very recent compared with the 4.6 billion - year history of the planet.

«Together with other results that suggest the Moon may have had more volatiles than previously thought, this research is revolutionizing our thinking about the early history of the planets and satellites,» said Jim Head, professor of geological sciences and a MESSENGER mission co-investigator.

MAVEN will measure the upper atmosphere of Mars to determine the climate history of the planet.

There has been increased interest in the identification and investigation of lava tubes because they could present scientists with information regarding the geological, paleohydrological, and supposed biological histories of the planet.

In the late 1950s, scientists working in Greenland had figured out a way to use ice to reveal the temperature history of the planet.

This Learning Journey extends students» knowledge of the solar system and history of the planet Earth by taking students back in time 4.6 billion years to when the Earth was beginning to be formed.

The huge mountain has long been Curiosity's ultimate science destination; mission scientists want the rover to climb up Mount Sharp's foothills, reading a history of the planet's changing environmental conditions along the way.

Hard to accept religious instruction from the largest organized pedophile ring in the history of the planet.

They are a result of the same plate tectonics that have shaped and reshaped the continents throughout the history of this planet.

No one in the history of the planet has come forth with any evidence to support the claim that any type of a god or gods exist.

It knows more about the history of our planet then our planet itself.

(1) At this critical point in the history of this planet, the greatest need is for people whose primary commitment is to the true well being of the planet including, of course, and primarily focusing on, its living inhabitants.

I, for example, believe that the Green Bay Packers are the greatest sports team in the history of the planet.

Besides that, I can not see how any so called loving God can include mass distinction of life, his creations, over and over again in the history of our planet as we know it.

Well, in the last 150 years, Atheists have murdered more people, particularly Christians, in the history of the planet.

In attempting to locate Christian existence in the history of the planet, it embodied daring speculation of a sort I would still like to encourage in myself and others.

Since they assume that ours is the most advanced civilization in the history of this planet, they are blind to any evidence that civilizations higher than our own once existed (pp. 28, 73).

More human beings live in abject poverty now than at any moment in the history of the planet.

This is repeated over and over and over throughout the history of the planet.