Sentences with phrase «over hundreds of»

Weather is still chaotic at this scale over hundreds of years.

Company records show that ExxonMobil handed over hundreds of thousands of pounds to such lobby groups in 2008.

There are large, even dominant, non-climatic causes of δ18O changes over hundreds of millions of years [40], but non-climatic change may be small in the past few hundred million years [41] and is generally neglected in Cenozoic climate studies.

What happens in the here and now is important and what happens over hundreds of thousands of years is also important.

Climate deniers pored over hundreds of pages of emails and seized on a few remarks they took out of context in a fruitless attempt to prove that climate change isn't real.

The problem for the oceans is that the pH compensating mechanism involves slowing the rate of limestone deposition, which takes thousands of years, and we're adding CO2 over hundreds of years, so the «buffer» is overwhelmed.

Over hundreds of millions of years the Sun actually warms up due to complicated processes in its core, but over, say, 100,000 years the heat and light we get from it is pretty much rock - constant.

Models have long suggested that Earth's orbit shifts from circular to elliptical and back again over hundreds of thousands of years, which plays a part in natural climate swings.

See, the first thing to do is do determine what the temperature trend during the recent thermometer period (1850 — 2011) actually is, and what patterns or trends represent «data» in those trends (what the earth's temperature / climate really was during this period), and what represents random «noise» (day - to - day, year - to - random changes in the «weather» that do NOT represent «climate change»), and what represents experimental error in the plots (UHI increases in the temperatures, thermometer loss and loss of USSR data, «metadata» «M» (minus) records getting skipped that inflate winter temperatures, differences in sea records from different measuring techniques, sea records vice land records, extrapolated land records over hundreds of km, surface temperature errors from lousy stations and lousy maintenance of surface records and stations, false and malicious time - of - observation bias changes in the information.)

«We know that, over hundreds of thousands of years, CO2 is regulated by slowly reacting with exposed rocks,» says Professor Eric Galbraith, who led the study.

Scientists thought ice sheets and glaciers would respond to warming slowly over hundreds of years.

Based on tectonic research over hundreds of millions of years, it appears the Earth is emerging from the last of four cool phases.

These plates shift over hundreds of millions of years, striking different continental configurations along the way.

Eventually, over hundreds of millennia, weathering of rocks will deposit all of this initial CO2 pulse on the ocean floor as carbonate sediments [168].

Upwelling, for example, is increasing only 0.0109 units per year over the past decade - a change that seems inconsequential given that the UI can range over hundreds of units over several days.

However this particular episode pans out and whatever the outcome I feel great sadness that a reputation built up over hundreds of years by the talented, that took us from poverty to prosperity, could be destroyed and so quickly, by a bunch of self - seeking, selfish hooligans.

e.g. I don't think I would trust these guys to design a bridge, they might say it was stable over hundreds of years even if it fell down several times in a single year:)

Stored in fossil fuels (decayed plants), such as oil, natural gas, and coal Limited amounts of these fossils fuels b / c formed over hundreds of millions of years.

These clusters of centimeter - long individuals, each beating tiny feathered legs, can, in aggregate, create powerful currents that may mix water over hundreds of meters in depth.

That really does it for you, and validates your position above, well, essentially everyone, and whole libraries of research over hundreds of years.

«Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past... Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.»

An examination of how scientists reconstruct the history of Earth's climate over hundreds of thousands — in some cases millions — of years.

I bet they think it will average out over hundreds of years, not 3 months, not 3 years, but hundreds of years.

Regulations for storage of millions of tons of coal ash around the country — leftover toxic sludge of the sort that spilled over hundreds of acres of eastern Tennessee in 2008 — remain in limbo.

This — combined with the energy used to refrigerate and haul the bottled water in trucks, sometimes over hundreds of miles — means the U.S. bottled water industry consumes roughly 50 million barrels of oil per year, equal to 13 percent of U.S. oil imports from Saudi Arabia.

The idea is based upon Amazonian indigenous practices, where highly fertile terras pretas (black soils) were created by burying charcoal over hundreds of years.

Both are well known to be accurate to fractions of a degree over hundreds of years.

Whatever the political solution, accurate risk assessments require hydrologists and climate scientists to determine the frequency of major flood producing storms over hundreds of years.

Over hundreds of years, strong hurricanes have deposited sediment over the barrier and into the pond where it has remained undisturbed.

To answer this question properly it would be necessary to view climate cycles over hundreds of thousands of years.

This amazing mosaic evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, but we have disrupted it in just a century.

Rather, excess CO2 returns toward baseline at a multitude a different rates, with chemical equilibration in the ocean occurring over decades (depending on depth), ocean carbonate buffering through sediment dissolution requiring centuries to millennia, and eventual restoration of carbonate sediment levels by terrestrial weathering occurring over hundreds of thousands of years — a long «tail» that can account for as much as 20 to 40 percent of CO2 excess in the estimates described by David Archer et al in CO2 Atmospheric Lifetimes.

«The geological record over hundreds of millions of years has shown that CO2 has had no affect whatsoever on climate.

The Greeks developed short - term forecasts based on observations made over hundreds of years.

They found that over hundreds of thousands of years, CO2 and temperature had been linked through feedbacks: anything that caused one of the pair to rise or fall brought a rise or fall in the other.

Many seismologists and disaster response experts have stressed that initial counts are always low, particularly in a disaster zone like this one — spread over hundreds of square miles of vertiginous terrain, with many communities unreachable by road at the best of times.

It seems to me, in spite of the noise from the climate change skeptics, pretty simple: nature sequestered carbon over hundreds of millions of years, keeping the earth comfortable in spite of the very slow increase in the suns flux over those millennia, and now we are undoing all of nature's work in order to drive our economy.

Let's face it, Earth has experienced drastic short term and long term climate changes numerous times over hundreds of millions of years without any human activities and, whether we like it or not, the same will happen again.

Shaviv and Veizer (2003) published a paper in the journal GSA Today, where the authors claimed to establish a correlation between cosmic ray flux (CRF) and temperature evolution over hundreds of millions of years, concluding that climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide was much smaller than currently accepted.

It is spread out over hundreds of square miles with many people commuting 50 + miles per day.

We've adapted our crops for each location over hundreds of years of genetic engineering, and I suspect farmers continue to do this year over year in real time as the climate changes.

Now, it has caused a spreading stain over hundreds of square miles of the Timor Sea between Australia and Indonesia, where oil is spilling unabated from a well drilled by PTTEP, based in Thailand.

The lifespan of atmospheric Co2 is pretty long, retaining still 25 % over hundreds of years.

The fellows will undoubtedly benefit from being able to draw upon our network of 65 member museums to inform their research, many of which have rich and historic collections built up over hundreds of years.»

With over seventy solo and over hundreds of group exhibitions, he is a veteran on the art scene.

Pointing his camera straight down at the ancient, grimy surface of the streets, which are composed of a patchwork of fragments accumulated over hundreds of years, Marclay utilizes the trash and debris to create a choreography of moving shapes that dance across the surface of the screen.

AWARD - WINNING SNIPING: Experience genre - defining rifle ballistics where snipers must take account of wind, gravity and heart rate to land satisfying shots over hundreds of meters.

The Burnin» Rubber games have been online since 2007 with over hundreds of millions of plays.

There are over hundreds of items that will become available later in the game and players can expect endless customization opportunities.

-- Baseball Stars — not really «start - to - finish» as I kept the same team over hundreds of leagues.