Sentences with phrase «last several thousands of years»

The point is that sea level is not going up at some dramatic rate, but is slowly crawling up as it has been for the last several thousands of years.

Not exact matches

Lyon says he's been with thousands of people over the last several years and describes what he's seen.

While it may be hard to understand, our knowledge of the world has actually evolved over the last several thousand years so many of the ancient understandings of the way the world works — and written into religious text — are obviously and verifiably wrong.

The post I was hashing out, the several stories I'd been revising, the ideas that were just paragraphs of drivel waiting for something more, the photos - thousands and thousands of photos from the last ten years, my entire iPhoto library, our trip to the Grand Canyon, my mom's wedding, our vacation to Guatemala and Costa Rica, the random shots that didn't make it to Instagram, the pictures of flowers and autumn leaves and Jammer and us and nothing and everything.

The Authority poured tens of thousands of dollars into open - bar parties, lavish picnics and nonprofits unrelated to Battery Park City over the past several years, the state Inspector General said in a report released last Friday.

In Hoosick Falls, where several banks suspended property financing and declined to issue mortgages last year, the litigation represents a potential recovery for thousands of property owners who believe the values of their homes and businesses were diminished by the stigma caused by the pollution.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

But during a period of several thousand years up until the last ice age ended approximately 12,000 years ago, this pattern did not fit and this was a mystery to researchers.

Unlike the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the main belt of our solar system, which move cleanly along their orbits, active asteroids were discovered several years ago mimicking comets with their tails formed by calm, long lasting ice sublimation.

Two reports published last year in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, with leadership from Scharf and several co-authors of the current study, described genome - wide association studies (GWAS) of thousands of affected individuals and controls.

During the last deglaciation, and likely also the three previous ones, the onset of warming at both high southern and northern latitudes preceded by several thousand years the first signals of significant sea level increase resulting from the melting of the northern ice sheets linked with the rapid warming at high northern latitudes (Petit et al., 1999; Shackleton, 2000; Pépin et al., 2001).

the last time such an event occurred, the result was an Ice Age known as the Younger Dryas, a period of several thousand years in which England, most of Northern Europe, and the eastern half of North America lay under a blanket of ice and snow.

Scientists theorize that the reason gluten is causing these digestive system problems is due to the excessive hybridization of wheat over the last 50 years, which has created newly modified gluten molecules that are foreign to the human digestive system compared to the ancient wheat that humans ate for several thousand years historically, and even compared to the wheat that your grandparents ate 50 + years ago.

I have purchased thousands of products over the last several years, but this one delivered so I felt compelled to write a review.

The modern diet is much higher in fat and things that slow the metabolism and interfere with glucose clearance than traditional human diets over the last several thousand years, and diets of other primates.

The last several years we have gathered quality profiles of Thousand Oaks men seeking women to create a common free database and our website provides an access to their owners, who are ready to settle down or, for starters, communicate.

In the last several years, hundreds of thousands of single women and men are using the dating websites to meet people.

Over the last several years I've been fortunate enough to put together a unique set of dating and relationship «tools» that have helped literally thousands of women like you DRAMATICALLY improve the emotional connection and attraction they share with a man.

As I have had the privilege to visit 100 + schools and interact with several thousand educators in the last two years, I have distilled key elements of this transition, and the deeper I look, the more I am convinced that THE key element of a successful redefinition of learning requires a reboot of the fundamental relationship between teacher, student, and knowledge.

We had several thousand older ones early last year and we were selling them down at a much lower price,» Holden Executive Director of Sales and Marketing Phil Brook told motoring.com.au.

Daniel said: «The Bodley Head FT essay prize has been a fantastic and rewarding forum over the last three years for finding and developing new young talent for the FT.. The essay form is a great test of the ability to write long form and shape an argument over several thousand words - an ability that is increasingly under pressure in age of snapchat and twitter.

At DBW time last year, Howey had sold several hundred thousand copies of his books.

I have spoken to hundreds, if not thousands, of retail investors over the last several years who are sitting nearly entirely in cash because they are afraid of what might happen to them in the stock market.

The penalty period can last several years and cost thousands of dollars.

After five years of providing food, medicine and spaying and neutering for several colonies, Holy — who has trapped nearly 700 ferals in Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach during the past five years and personally paid thousands of dollars to spay and neuter 124 cats last year alone — is getting her own helping hand.

The generous contribution helps soften the cost of providing food this coming winter to the many thousands of homeless cats living on the city's streets, and continues a tradition of abundant Meow Mix donations to assist this segment of the humane community over the last several years.

However, the last dog I had ended up costing me thousands after some unfortunate run - ins with wildlife, and his injuries continued to plague him (and us financially) until he passed several years and tens of thousands of dollars later.

There are several lawsuits pending against valve in other countries (Germany being one), due to people like me who have purchased 5 to 10 thousand dollars worth over the last 25 years and the new terms of service ToS can't be used retroactive as steam had hoped.

However, atmospheric CO2 content plays an important internal feedback role.Orbital - scale variability in CO2 concentrations over the last several hundred thousand years covaries (Figure 5.3) with variability in proxy records including reconstructions of global ice volume (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005), climatic conditions in central Asia (Prokopenko et al., 2006), tropical (Herbert et al., 2010) and Southern Ocean SST (Pahnke et al., 2003; Lang and Wolff, 2011), Antarctic temperature (Parrenin et al., 2013), deep - ocean temperature (Elder eld et al., 2010), biogeochemical conditions in the Northet al., 2008).

Science Daily — During the past ninety thousand years there were alternating hot and cold periods lasting several thousand years each which resulted in a modification of global oceanic circulation.

Over the last several years, thousands of children living near lead mines, smelters, and battery plants have been poisoned.

From my point of view, I saw that the climate had varied very widely over the last several thousand years, and in no way did I believe that proxy data (which averages and mutes annual signals) showed that the recent warming was unprecedented over the last 1000 or 2000 years.

Since entering» semi-retirement» in 2001, my research has concentrated on the climatic role farmers played during the last several thousand years by clearing land, raising livestock, and irrigating rice paddies, all of which put increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

http://notrickszone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Arctic-Sea-Ice-Extent-North-of-Iceland-3000-Years-Moffa-S%C3%A1nchez-and-Hall-2017.jpg And then explain why it is that Arctic sea ice is only slightly lower now than it was during the LIA, and why nearly all of the last several thousand years had much lower sea ice extent than now.

This can be inferred from ice core measurements, which show a near constant atmospheric concentration of CO2 over the last several thousand years prior to the Industrial Era.

If there were global temperatures more than 2 °C of 3 °C above the current average temperature, this would take the climate outside of the range of observations which have been made over the last several hundred thousand years.»

The dealing with periods seems be a way out of the geocentricmania which is powered by an army of scientist and a lot of money and still no answer to the cause / effect of the global climate temperature spectra of the last several thousand years.

In 1975, Yale economist William Nordhaus speculated that a global mean temperature increase of two or three degrees would be unprecedented in the «last several hundred thousand years.»

eleven thousand three hundred years temperatures have been doing a long, subtle, slow slide down; and small, you know, half a degree, three - quarter of a degree of cooling over the long run of the last several thousand years.

Recently published graphs of Holocene Arctic region sea ice extent also support the conclusion that modern era sea ice is much more extensive than it has been for almost all of the last several thousand years.

Until we do, we can not make good predictions about future climate change... Over the last several hundred thousand years, climate change has come mainly in discrete jumps that appear to be related to changes in the mode of thermohaline circulation.»

In November, Rear Admiral David Titley, the Oceanographer of the Navy, testified that «the volume of ice as of last September has never been lower» ¦ in the last several thousand years.»

Vincentrj # 28 you are unclear re the division of your opinions / inferences between the 3 basic sub-topics (1) heat is entering the oceans due to radiative imbalance due to humans burning carbon fuels (2) the heat rate coupled with its estimated duration (based on its cause) will make it within a few decades become unprecedented during the last several thousand years and same for the surface temperature rise that will be required to stop it (3) the effects on flora & fauna will be highly negative even within this century and more so for centuries and millenia thereafter, in particular the human species which has softened much and expects much more since the days when a mammoth tusk through the groin was met with «well Og's had it, press on».

We do not know enough to determine under what circumstance CO2 is a forcing or a feedback relative to temperature sometimes it maybe both sometimes over large areas it may even be a coolant e.g. if you think it is the main driver (which I don't) you would have to say it acted as a coolant for several thousand years from the Holocene climate optimum to the LIA — see Fig 6 in the last post at http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com I quoted the end Permian Siberian traps as a possible example of CO2 as a forcing but even here CO2 was rising rapidly before the volcanic event.

«In pyrolisys up to 50 per cent of carbon is maintained as char which can last for several thousand years in the soil,» he said.

Monsoons have been of greater and lesser intensity since the last ice age with a particular period of frequency several thousand years ago.

Significant short - term (decades to century - scale) temperature and sea levels fluctuations (several degrees and many meters) during the last ice age (about 110 — 15 thousand years ago) imply great instability of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets.

More than 20 years ago, analyses of greenhouse gas concentrations in ice cores showed that downward trends in CO2 and CH4 that had begun near 10,000 years ago subsequently reversed direction and rose steadily during the last several thousand years.

IMO, the strongest argument for sea ice decline over the last decade for being unusual and at least in part attributable to global warming is this (from Polyakov et al.): The severity of present ice loss can be highlighted by the breakup of ice shelves at the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, which have been stable until recently for at least several thousand years based on geological data.

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