The discovery won't mean much for climate change: The process
occurs over millions of years, and the amounts involved are small compared with human - driven emissions.
However, evolutionary theory does not consider such short time scales, but rather developmental changes
occurring over millions of years.
Not exact matches
Over the past two or three
years a bloody shakeout has
occurred, with many solar manufacturers going bankrupt, including some in the U.S. (like Solyndra, which received $ 535
million in Department
of Energy loan guarantees).
This assertion had three components: (1) The commenter estimated the cost
over 60 days to be $ 250
million based on the on - going cost from the final 2016 RIA
of $ 1.5 billion per
year, (2) that cost savings
over a 10 -
year period were not provided to allow comparison to the negative effects on investors that would
occur over the ten
year period, (3) that industry cost savings were not projected out
over 10
years using returns on capital in a similar manner to investors» lost earnings.
In February 2016, the Company issued to a service provider a 12 month convertible debentures at 15 % interest with a principal amount
of $ 35,000 along with 35,000 3 -
year warrants to purchase shares common stock at $ 1.00 per share The convertible debentures are payable at maturity, and convertible at the investor's determination at a price equal to 90 %
of the price
of a subsequent public underwritten offering if one
occurs over $ 5
million, or, if no subsequent offering
occurs, at $ 0.75 per share.
davidhmittelberg, so it has never
occurred to you that after thousands
of micro-evolutionary changes,
over millions or billions
of years, that you might end up with a creature that can no longer successfully mate with its ancestors?
Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that youth ages 15 - 24 make up just
over one quarter
of the sexually active population, but account for half
of the 20
million new sexually transmitted infections that
occur in the United States each
year.
It
occurs naturally
over a wide range
of thermal environments, and has experienced such variety
over millions of years.
For example at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), recruitment
of international faculty is
occurring across a wide range
of subject areas, including engineering and science, with special emphasis on its Nanyang Assistant Professorship scheme, awarding 10 to 12 distinguished young faculty each
year with a competitive salary and up to $ 1
million startup funds
over the first three
years.
«If the solar storm
of 1921, which has been termed a one - in -100-year event, were to
occur today, well
over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130
million people for a period
of years,» Joseph McClelland, director
of the Office
of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.
The Grants had shown that gene flow has
occurred in the finches
of Daphne Major during the past 40
years, but the new study found extensive evidence for gene flow throughout the roughly 1
million years that the birds have occupied the archipelago, which has helped the researchers update their understanding
of how the lineages diverged
over time.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO),
over 500
million cases
of malaria
occur each
year, resulting in an estimated 1
million deaths.
In the Hawaiian Islands, geologists have found more than 25 individual collapses that have
occurred over the past five
million years — the blink
of an eye in geologic time.
In the past several decades, scientists have discovered that the North — South distributions
of certain plants often result from a single jump across the tropics, not as a result
of gradual movements or events that
occurred over a hundred
million years ago.
In the New Madrid seismic zone, the team found that motion along the faults that are currently active has been
occurring over many
millions of years.
Mass extinctions
occurring over the past 260
million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers, scientists conclude in a new study published in Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society.
In the study, published in the journal «Osteoporosis International», investigators from the University
of Tasmania, Anhui Medical University and Nanjing Medical University estimated that in 2010 more than 2.3
million osteoporosis - related hip, clinical vertebral and wrist fractures
occurred in the population aged 50
years and
over.
A genetic mutation that
occurred over 700
million years ago may have contributed to the development
of certain organs in human beings and other vertebrates.
«Though very rarefied by Earth standards, these interstellar clouds are the sites
of complex chemical reactions that
occur over hundreds - of - thousands or millions of years,» said Jan M. Hollis of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Over time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these clo
over hundreds -
of - thousands or
millions of years,» said Jan M. Hollis
of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «
Over time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these clo
Over time, more and more complex molecules can be formed in these clouds.
Processes that have historically altered the face
of the planet, like cycles in the Earth's orbit around the Sun or shifts in continental tectonic plates,
occur over tens
of thousands to
millions of years.
Every
year,
over 2.5
million people are newly infected with most
of these infections
occurring in developing countries.
These two subspecies currently
occur in parapatry, hybridize
over a large area in the central part
of the Iberian Peninsula (Figure S1), and have diverged approximately 1.8
million years ago [20], [21].
Then,
over a period
of about 100
million years, subduction
occurs on an enormous scale, completely recycling the crust.
Humic Acid is a naturally
occurring «deep earth» substance that's a byproduct
of humification, a process that has taken place
over millions of years.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that
over sixteen
million deaths
occur worldwide each
year due to cardiovascular disease, and more than half
of those deaths
occur in developing countries where plant - based diets high in legumes and starches are eaten by the vast majority
of the people.
Fossilized remains
of the olive tree's ancestor were found near Livorno, in Italy, dating from twenty
million years ago, although actual cultivation probably did not
occur in that area until the fifth century B.C. Olives were first cultivated in the Eastern part
of the Mediterranean, in the region known as the «fertile crescent,» and moved westwards
over the millennia.
Of that 17.79
million, 15.05
million sales
occurred over the past fiscal
year, or April 1st, 2017 through March 31st, 2018.
My own efforts will be giving talks on climate change (and its reasons)
over the past 500
million years to local folks in this very rural region
of upstate New York (before showing them the changes
occurring recently and the reasons behind them).
Moreover, greenhouse gas concentration increases
of the magnitude observed
over the past two centuries have in the past
occured only taken place on timescales
of millions of years.
Changes in this balance
over time lead to the changes in greenhouse gas concentrations that have been observed to
occur on geological (
millions of year) timescales.
Before announcing the closure
of Northern in mid-2015, Alinta unsuccessfully sought $ 25
million in subsidies
over three
years from the South Australian Labor government to keep it operating until this
year, to ensure an effective transition
occurred, after a rapid rise in renewable energy made it unviable.
Given evolution
over the past 500
million years when virtually all modern emerged and radiated largely
occurred while the planet had no polar ice caps and atmospheric CO2 up to ten times current level, and the planet was green from pole to pole, and life did so well it was able to sequester huge amounts
of energy in fossil fuel beds.
10 °C rises in global average temperatures have not only
occurred during the last 600
million years, but they are the defining characteristic
of the temperature record
over that time.
So it seems possible that snowball earth may have
occurred over 500
million years ago, but I don't there enough evident
of this
occurring or what kind
of snowball Earth is was.
Over the last million years, the pattern recorded in cores of Greenland ice has occurred over and over: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, rep
Over the last
million years, the pattern recorded in cores
of Greenland ice has
occurred over and over: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, rep
over and
over: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, rep
over: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out
of the ice age, a few millennia
of stability, repeat.
Rokdoc (65), so, since these changes will
occur — on a geologic time scale, I must add — as they have
over the last 500
million years, then we shouldn't worry about human actions inducing these same changes on the scale
of human lifetimes?
We estimate that an extended moratorium, which we now expect to continue because
of Obama political calculus, will cost up to 200,000 higher - paying jobs in the oil drilling and oil service business and that the employment multiplier
of 4.7 will put the total job loss at nearly 1
million permanent employment shrinkage
occurring over the next few
years.
However, the Big Five
occurred over periods
of hundreds
of thousands to
millions of years, so Barnosky and colleagues also attempted to determine how long it might take us to reach mass extinction levels (75 %
of species extinct).
To answer this question, the scientists examined a hypothetical scenario in which the Big Five extinctions
occurred suddenly, such that all
of the species went extinct
over just 500
years rather than
over hundreds
of thousands to
millions of years.
The Coinhoarder thefts
occurred over the course
of three
years but surged at the end
of 2017 as Bitcoin prices soared close to $ 20,000, with $ 10
million stolen between September and December.