Sentences with phrase «not thousands of years»

This mentality hasn't changed in hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Having waste that only consists of fission products means that the waste only needs to be stored for a few hundred years, not the thousands of years needed for «once - through» uranium waste.

These nanoscale structures provide safe haven to the microbes and fungus that facilitate fertile soil creation, while sequestering carbon for many hundred if not thousands of years.

Once emitted, a single molecule of carbon dioxide can remain aloft for hundreds of years, which means that the effects of today's industrial activities will be felt for the next several centuries, if not thousands of years.

Remember, it is these people who believe that a deity granted human beings unalienable rights despite the fact that for hundreds if not thousands of years deities granted no such thing.

She has observed first hand that they have thawed as far down as 15 meters in an area that has only been submerged for 150 - 200 years, not the thousands of years that you predicted such thawing would require.

The scientific consensus has concluded that further increases in CO2 and average global temperature are almost certain to destroy the coral communities of the Great Barrier Reef for hundreds if not thousands of years.

It really seems to me that the world has moved nowhere in its mental state for hundreds if not thousands of years.

To those who fear human any human intervention in the environment on principle you must consider that we humans have been radically changing the environment for hundreds if not thousands of years and so far most of the changes have been good for humanity.

3, The life of a CO2 molecule in the atmosphere is not thousands of years (or whatever the IPCC have told you)

«3, The life of a CO2 molecule in the atmosphere is not thousands of years (or whatever the IPCC have told you)» no one has said it is, especially not the IPCC.

«These are animals that have spent hundreds, if not thousands of years, evolving to line up their spawning [egg - laying] behaviour with the times that floodplains fill with water.»

Their unwillingness to take immediate action is intellectually and morally bankrupt because unless carbon emissions are stopped very soon (remember that the damage is cumulative so continuing to emit at current of even reduced rates still causes additional damage hundreds if not thousands of years into the future.)

Antarctic land ice won't reach equilibrium with global climate for hundreds if not thousands of years.

Of course not, the rise will continue approximately at the current rate, as e.g. the ice sheets will continue to melt due to the elevated temperature — it takes hundreds if not thousands of years until they have finished this response to the past warming.

This adds about 10 feet of SLR to whatever other SLR we get though the timing is uncertain, but seems to be just hundreds, not thousands of years and maybe sooner.

Coral reefs grow slowly, taking hundreds, if not thousands of years, to achieve their immense size.

for hundreds if not thousands of years before the horse was brought over by the Spaniards in the early 1500's.

But we are committed to time - honored traditional practices that have produced healthy coconut oil for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

In fact, to some extent, they've been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Milk kefir grains have been cultivated for hundreds if not thousands of years in the mountainous region of the Balkans, and the milk kefir recipe has been handed down for generations.

The resulting deposits, once they have petrified (a process that takes hundreds if not thousands of years), are a sought - after ingredient in both traditional South African medicine and perfumery.

In tropical cultures, coconut has been a traditional ingredient in chicken feed for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

This open - pollinated corn has been grown in a traditional fashion, much the same way it has been done for hundreds, if not thousands of years in this region.

It's interesting to think this product has just recently become popular in the US (I had never even heard of it 5 years ago) while Peruvian farmers have been enjoying this protein rich plant for hundreds if not thousands of years.

This is a traditional method of coconut oil extraction that has been used in the Philippines for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

The words are hundreds if not thousands of years old and have been part of the way believers across epochs and continents have worshiped.

You end up looking really stupid trying to cater to those folks holding onto views that are hundreds of years, if not thousands of years old.

We have an entire branch of government devoted to interpreting the Consttution and laws passed by Congress, and those are written in English and only a couple hundred years old at the most, not thousands of years ago from a different language and culture.

In fact the majority of the books were written hundreds if not thousands of years after Jesus died.

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».

Not exact matches

He's visited countless thousands of homes over the years, which has allowed him to build up what he describes as an intuition that's «born over time and that you may not see in the moment.»

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

«We have tens of thousands of deaths a year caused by air pollution, and that's not unusual,» Hammitt says.

Science would say that you can't beat thousands of years of survival - based biology.

People just aren't getting enough sleep, leading to consequences like literally thousands of traffic fatalities a year caused by drowsy drivers.

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.

Tech giants such as Sony, Samsung and Panasonic along with thousands of smaller consumer - electronics companies descend on Las Vegas for the week, where they'll make arguably some of the largest tech announcements of the year and show off not only what we'll see in stores this year, but what we can expect to see for years to come.

But the practice of not eating — or reducing the amount of food consumed — is something humans have been doing for thousands of years.

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.

Even though FanDuel has been around since 2009 and DraftKings launched in 2012, the regulatory scrutiny did not explode until this year, sparked both by the companies» aggressive advertising assault and by a September scandal around a DraftKings employee winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in a FanDuel contest.

Considering the populations had a chance to mingle in Europe over a span of a few thousand years, some sort of casual affair isn't all that surprising.

It makes me wonder how many thousands of replies I haven't gotten over the years, due to my penchant for ending emails with «best» (as if I'd wanted to write, «best regards,» but just couldn't find the time.)

And while requiring people to spend months working for free does put a substantial barrier in the way of someone who can't get financial assistance from his parents, requiring someone to spend a year or two paying many thousands of dollars to a school creates a much larger barrier.

Yoga is a practice that is thousands of years old, but it wasn't designed to make you look good in a tank top (ancient Indians didn't really care about that).

The education ministry needed to recruit thousands of teachers on two - year contracts, earning as much as US$ 70,000 - a-year tax free; the successful applicants didn't need to speak Arabic, but they had to be comfortable in an unfamiliar culture.

This has existed for decades, if not hundreds or thousands of years.

Over the years they've built incredible organizations that are not just good businesses, they help provide jobs and livelihoods for thousands of people in their communities.»

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.