In the billions
of years timescale of the evolutionists I suggest that these precise conditions were, if not frequent, numerous enough to produce a fair number of fossils of all kinds including intermediates.
In my sense, climate scientists superbly ignore the possibility of long, secular cycles that could trigger variability on hundreds
of years timescales.
Not exact matches
This first quantitative interpretation
of the caldera's long - term behaviour shows that there is no need to require significant non-brittle flow due to viscous19 or plastic43 movements at
timescales of ∼ 10
years.
«We were a little overly optimistic with the
timescales,» adds Rebecca, following initial expectations
of launching at the start
of the
year, «but we're on track to launch in April.
In their logarithmic
timescale they started with 15 billion
years as the age
of the universe, which is incorrect and throw off their 6 days
of creation.
Their importance, he says, lies in the very act
of government and business discussing these challenges and considering how to meet them: developing a «dual approach over a significant — five, six, seven -
year —
timescale both encourages confidence that we are all facing in the same direction, and gives us time to develop and implement a real strategy [for growth].»
«What I want to do is negotiate a new comprehensive free trade agreement with the European Union,» she said, «to have that negotiated within that two
year timescale the treaty has set, and then as part
of the ongoing relationship,
of course we'll have an implementation period when that is put into place.»
After PCCs take office they have a tight
timescale to set a budget and the level
of the precept for 2013/14 which is
year three (out
of four)
of one
of the most challenging funding settlements the police service has faced.»
1 In the document, the Lib Dems profess their support for «the eradication
of the structural deficit within a responsible
timescale» but, in reality, they were demanding a faster pace
of deficit reduction «in light
of market concerns», including «some in -
year cuts».
«So whatever that period is - two
years, two - and - a-half
years, that would have to be the
timescale of the next referendum because what you would want to do is remain in the European Union while the rest
of the UK moved out.»
«When we're talking about cuts
of this scale, over this short a
timescale, we're inevitably going to be talking about job losses, which will mean rising unemployment, increased benefit payments, reduced tax revenue and a real risk
of a double - dip recession,» she said The government expects to save up to # 120m this
year by freezing recruitment across the board in government departments, agencies, and quangos.
«Untangling the role
of climate on sediment and reef evolution over millennial
timescales: Great Barrier Reef case study estimates evolution over the past 14,000
years.»
The researchers acknowledge that comparing 2001 predictions with just five
years of subsequent data represents a very short
timescale relative to climate change.
What enthuses people, he says, is seeing the fruits
of their labours — such as a new car catalyst — on the market on a
timescale of a couple
of years.
This
year, members
of the Anthropocene Working Group, a subset
of the International Union
of Geological Sciences (the body that oversees the geologic
timescale), sought to change that.
The Jurassic period is a major unit
of the geologic
timescale that extends from about 200 Ma (million
years ago) at the end
of the Triassic to 146 Ma at the beginning
of the Cretaceous.
«It will make detection essentially guaranteed over a
timescale of a few
years.»
Researchers at the Sainte - Justine University Hospital Center and University
of Montreal have discovered that the genomic signature inherited by today's 6 million French Canadians from the first 8,500 French settlers who colonized New France some 400
years ago has gone through an unparalleled change in human history, in a remarkably short
timescale.
These results show how the genome can record migrations on
timescales of hundreds
of years, not just thousands.
The Cambrian is a major division
of the geologic
timescale that begins about 542 Ma (million
years ago) at the end
of the Proterozoic eon and ended about 488.3 Ma with the beginning
of the Ordovician period (ICS, 2004).
The
timescale usually associated with core accretion is tens
of millions
of years.
Because these events unfold on billion -
year timescales, each pair
of galaxies observed by Hubble provides just a snapshot at a particular stage
of the collision and merger process.
«Usually distant galaxies do not change significantly over an astronomer's lifetime, i.e. on a
timescale of years or decades,» explains Andrea Merloni, «but this one showed a dramatic variation
of its spectrum, as if the central black hole had switched on and off.»
But the duration
of an SKR cycle later proved to vary by several minutes over the
years, whereas a planet's rotational speed should remain nearly constant on such short
timescales.
Moreover, venom research has mostly neglected ancient animal groups in favor
of focusing on venomous snakes and cone snails, which are both «young» animal groups that originated only recently in evolutionary
timescales, approximately 50 million
years ago.
«There are very few examples in the galaxy
of this process in action because this phase is short - lived, perhaps lasting only a hundred thousand
years, while the
timescale over which a resulting disk is visible could be only ten thousand
years or less.»
«A similarly energetic reheating
of Yellowstone's current sub-surface magma bodies could end approximately 70,000
years of volcanic repose and lead to a future eruption over similar
timescales.»
Every
timescale, no matter how sophisticated, was based either on the length
of the day or the length
of a
year.
After a short
timescale of less than 1 billion
years the star formation has been quenched by powerful gas outflows.»
This suggest that important living groups such as birds might result from sustained, rapid evolutionary rates over
timescales of hundreds
of millions
of years, which could not be observed without fossils.
They eliminated those with orbital radii less than one tenth that
of Earth's, because at that distance moon systems might not remain in stable orbits around their planets on billion -
year timescales.
His
timescale is millions
of years.
But such precision could be a hindrance when the magnetic field varies, as it does over
timescales of a
year or more.
«According to our study, the Atlantic / Pacific temperature difference shows pronounced variations on
timescales of more than 5
years,» explained Chikamoto, USU associate professor in the department
of Plants, Soils and Climate.
«According to our study, the Atlantic / Pacific temperature difference shows pronounced variations on
timescales of more than 5
years.
The
timescale change suggests that dinosaurs evolved relatively rapidly, and that early dinosauromorphs probably weren't part
of life's repopulation after a major mass extinction 252 million
years ago, scientists report online December 7 in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences.
These «rapid» changes take place on the
timescale of millions (rather than billions)
of years and are accompanied by clear markers that Boyajian's star lacks.
But this happens on
timescales of millions
of years, not centuries or days, and at the end, not the middle,
of a star's life.
The amount
of solar heat entering Earth's atmosphere varies by about 0.1 per cent on a
timescale of years as the sun's activity changes, but satellite data show no overall increase corresponding to the soaring temperatures
of recent decades.
The goal
of the United States and its negotiating partners is to slow Iran's «breakout time» — the
timescale of a crash effort to porduce enough weapons - grade fissle material for one bomb — from an estimated 2 to 3 months to at least a
year.
On the other hand, ecosystem productivity had either regained or exceeded its normal level a
year after a climate event, regardless
of plant diversity, showing that biodiversity has no effect on ecosystem resilience, at least on annual
timescales.
«This is interesting because the modern ocean mixes on a
timescale of only about 1000
years,» says Abbot.
For familiar pairs, such as the Moon and Earth, such energy loss is imperceptible even on
timescales of billions
of years.
The draft report says it is «very likely» that the past three decades have all been warmer than any time in the past 800
years; that we could see almost 9 °C
of warming by 2300; and that «a large fraction
of climate change is largely irreversible on human
timescales».
The data tell a far different story: «The observations in the last 10
years are, whoa, ice sheets change far more dramatically, both in terms
of magnitude
of change and
timescale, than we experts ever thought possible,» Bindschadler said.
Collisions take place over very long
timescales compared to the length
of our lifetime — several tens
of millions
of years.
Using the 2m Faulkes Telescope North, we conducted a search for stars in M13 that show variability over a
year (2005 — 2006) on
timescales of days and months.
``... the quadruple stellar system itself is bound but unstable on
timescales of 500,000
years... [and therefore, young — less than 500,000
years old].»
«If a new theory published last
year is correct, then powerful hydrothermal activity could have been occurring since the formation
of the moon, possibly as much as the age
of the solar system,» he says, adding that which
timescale they are working on — tens
of millions or billions — could be determined with future research.
«We tend to think
of retroviruses over recent
timescales, for example, HIV - 1 crossed from chimpanzees to humans about 100
years ago, leading to the AIDS pandemic,» Katzourakis said.