Sentences with phrase «human timescale events»

Meanwhile, since you think that human timescale events of no consequence, I hope you're logically consistent and don't wear your seatbelt, see your doctor, and that you smoke like a chimney and drink like a fish.

Not exact matches

«Jump dispersal helps us remember that events that are rare on human timescales can be common over geological timescales, and that biodiversity might be structured largely by these rare chance events.»

I hope that while placing the Tunguska event into perpspective we also come to realize that our false sense of security regarding impacts like this and worse is largely perceptual based on our limited understanding of our own history and its woefully human timescale, and I hope we realize that impacts might not be the rare events we've come to consider them as being, and that they may not arrive singularly and only on rare occasions, but as swarms of potentially devastating event producers, as our planet enters into regions of our Milky Way where clouds of potentially planet - disrupting objects are a genuine concern and are something we can and should do something about... and soon.

The rate of warming last century was 0.07 K / decade and in the unlikely event of this rate persisting this century — it takes an awful long time on the timescale of human technology to amount to much at all.