Sentences with phrase «many hundreds to thousands of years»

Using tree rings, researchers have created a record of droughts dating back hundreds to thousands of years.

And to find those answers, one must go back and look at what was happening with temperatures hundreds to thousands of years ago.

Oceans may have lasted only hundreds to thousands of years, while the intervening cold, dry spells lasted much longer.

It may not be a road map to the next 100 years, but the Pliocene is a rough guide to the high sea levels, vanishing ice and altered weather patterns that might arrive hundreds to thousands of years from now.

Recent research suggests that healthy, intact coastal wetland ecosystems such as mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows are particularly good at drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it for hundreds to thousands of years.

He and climate scientist Johannes Feldmann, also of the Potsdam climate center, wanted to examine how the destabilization would progress in the longer term, over hundreds to thousands of years.

«We know that bacteria have the potential to remain viable and metabolically active at low temperatures for hundreds to thousands of years,» said Redeker.

During that time, which can last hundreds to thousands of years, glaciers and ice sheets expand in size and depth.

Researchers had thought this process took hundreds to thousands of years.

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

Given the atmospheric lifetime of carbon dioxide is many hundreds to thousands of years, we can now understand that long - lived greenhouses will also continue to exert a warming influence on the worlds oceans for a very long time.

There have certainly been incorrect assertions and headlines implying that 20 ft of sea level by 2100 was expected, but they are mostly based on a confusion of a transient rise with the eventual sea level rise which might take hundreds to thousands of years.

Basically, coal puts up a warming gas (CO2) that lasts in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years and we are hiding about half of its effects with a gas (coal smoke) that lasts in the atmosphere for a few weeks.

The ZH curves show that the removal starts at a fairly rapid rate initially, but then flattens out, so that a half - life is reached within 50 to 120 years and it would take hundreds to thousands of years for 75 % to be removed.

And many regions have shown no significant net changes or trends in either direction relative to the last few hundred to thousands of years.

The IPCC indeed does say that is hundreds to thousands of years.

The remainder might well stay in the soil for hundreds to thousands of years.

IPCC scientists assume that human CO2 emissions will continue to accumulate in the atmosphere, remaining anywhere from hundreds to thousands of years.

This coastal melting has been operating at time scales of hundreds to thousands of years.

That carbon is transported to depths where it can be harmlessly sequestered for hundreds to thousands of years.

IPCC global warming science claims human CO2 emissions remain in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years (not likely, but we'll assume it for this analysis).

The second question is, postulating that the temperature record from satellites is absolutely accurate and unfudged, and in light of the fact that climate changes historically occur naturally with periods of hundreds to thousands of years, do you think that the 31 annual data points available from the satellite record are adequate to establish long term climate trends and that the trends are a consequence of human activity?

Developing metrics to set short - term changes observed over decades or centuries in the context of long - term (several hundreds to thousands of years or more) variation in specific ecosystems

Basically, although the gas is indeed easily absorbed by sea - water, it is the timescales that matter: mixing of shallow and deep oceanic waters takes place over hundreds to thousands of years but sea - water can de-gas parts of its carbon dioxide payload over much, much shorter periods.

Second, peatlands are formed by hundreds to thousands of years of accumulation of dead vegetation.

Not exact matches

Among the most imaginative deals was a package that gave him a bonus despite the fact that his casino empire was losing tens of millions of dollars a year, and an agreement to that had the casinos spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on Trump Ice bottled water for the mini-bars.

Crypt been a hit with viewers — a handful of episodes have been viewed more than 5 million times, while most generate numbers in the hundreds of thousands — and produced revenue in the seven figures last year, says Davis, who declined to get specific.

During the 13 years Trump spent as chairman, the company lost a total of $ 1.1 billion and declared bankruptcy twice — all while Trump essentially paid himself roughly $ 82 million and also had the company pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Trump Ice bottled water for their mini-bars.

Programmers have, rather, fed the computer a learning algorithm, exposed it to terabytes of data — hundreds of thousands of images or years» worth of speech samples — to train it, and have then allowed the computer to figure out for itself how to recognize the desired objects, words, or sentences.

Extremely successful people tend to meet hundreds, if not thousands, of people every year.

I credit making wise decisions in marketing as a primary reason I went from selling zero units to several hundred thousand units within two years, operating only off of profits all before the exposure that Shark Tank brought.

Former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks, has no regrets about her actions, even after serving seven years in prison.

«Partnerships like this one have reinvigorated our nation's apprenticeship system, creating opportunity and pathways to prosperity for hundreds of thousands of Americans that will last for years to come.»

So, along with Memorial Sloan Kettering, Grail plans on following hundreds of thousands of patients over the next few years and trying to see if they can detect CTDNA in those patients whenever they develop cancer.

A few hundred thousand people visit the Killing Fields every year; there is another site open to the public in Phnom Penh, a former school where victims of the genocide were tortured before being taken to the Killing Fields.

I think they came up with Post-it notes about 75 years later, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of inventions and products in between.

His community is hundreds of thousands of people, and they regularly meet three to four times a year in stadiums with 30,000 to 40,000 attendees.

On the other hand, many species have peacefully coevolved with humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.

While he has recently said that he's open to a path to citizenship after 10 to 12 years for Dreamers, the future of those hundreds of thousands of people is still uncertain.

Over the past 15 years, I have had the opportunity to travel in over 30 countries, meet thousands of people and train hundreds of thousands of people.

It is still not clear to me, but the company had only raised less than $ 2 million and after more than a year of fighting against a larger company, and after many hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally settled out of court.

It says that Bushmen societies seem not to have changed over tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of years — longer than most societies have existed.

The Washington Post ran a long investigative feature Saturday on borrowers who walked away from their homes only to discover years later they still owed hundreds of thousands of dollars on their now defunct mortgages.

Germany expects to take hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers this year.

Hoegh - Guldberg said scientific consensus was that hikes in carbon dioxide and the average global temperature were «almost certain to destroy the coral communities of the Great Barrier Reef for hundreds if not thousands of years».

Journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin said sweetened beverages are linked to diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people a year.

Global Mail Ltd., a $ 13 - million deliverer of international mail (# 35 on this year's Inc. 500 figures each «little» slipup costs it hundreds to thousands of dollars to fix.

These changes would cost incorporated professionals anywhere from tens of thousands to possibly more than a hundred thousand dollars a year in taxes.

It would cost the average residential customer about $ 20 a year — and commercial accounts hundreds or thousands of dollars — and was likely to be bitterly unpopular with residents.

That might not make a huge difference for one year, but it could add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars of lost wages over the course of your career.