Sentences with phrase «over millennia into»

Xtianity has morphed over millennia into a terrible philosophy.

Not exact matches

Countless smash - ups over the millennia spread around enough of these exotic metals that when our planet formed, they were baked right into its crust.

St. Louis was once corporate America's manufacturing backyard, but through strategic planning initiatives first launched at the start of the new millennium, the region has evolved into a vibrant hotbed of technology, as well as a cradle of entrepreneurship over the past decade.

In the right set of circumstances, many multiples of that amount could incrementally flow into gold, a simple product that has been innately understood for millennia by human beings all over the globe.

This organic whole that began from an initial high bang and eventuated into the present universe is distinguished by a form of unity and diversity radical beyond all imagining: infinite differences, and diversity that is marked not by isolation but by shared atoms over millennia as well as minute - by - minute exchanges of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants and animal.

For James, the ongoing permanence and stability of a unified Roman Catholic that has weathered cultural change and religious persecution over the millennia, stands in contrast to a Protestant Church fractured into thousands of denominations and riven with differences.

I saw the Church which John Paul II shepherded into this third millennium and handed over to his successor, Benedict, who is guiding it with a steady and loving hand.

God's story isn't a fast one, but one that slowly unfurls over millennia, revealing more of who God is and what he calls his people into.

Some argue, and I would not disagree, that they run more than 1,300 years into the past, and that what confronts us today is the contemporary expression of a civilizational contest that has ebbed and flowed for well over a millennium.

Those with mild sensitivities to gluten may have luck eating this ancient grain as berries or ground into flour because it contains a different genome of gluten than modern wheat, and it has not been much changed by selective breeding over the millennia (note: spelt is not genetically engineered — a completely different process from selective breeding).

We've been cooking forever, but if you think about it, while technology and software have wormed their way into almost every aspect of our lives, cooking is still very, very primitive — we still cook over an open flame, like our ancestors millennia ago.

Where CO2 takes centuries to millennia to warm the planet, methane is its cousin on steroids, working quickly over decades before decaying into less virulent gases.

The water contains a smattering of uranium atoms that decay into a distinctive isotope of thorium, which accumulates in the calcite over millennia.

New research using ancient animal depictions tracks the collapse of Egypt's ecological networks one extinction at a time, offering a glimpse into how climate change and human impacts have altered the structure and stability of ecosystems over millennia.

Professor Zalasiewicz added: «Plastics will continue to be input into the sedimentary cycle over coming millennia as temporary stores — landfill sites — are eroded.

After developing the computational algorithms that predicted the historical order in which the senses of a word have emerged, the team tested these predictions against records of English over the past millennium using the Historical Thesaurus of English, a large database in which each of a word's many senses is marked for its date of emergence into the language.

«How phytoplankton communities absorb CO2 and export it into the ocean interior, and therefore how atmospheric CO2 will evolve over the coming millennia, will depend on these sensitivities, Buchanan added.

petrify To turn once - living tissue into stone, usually over many millennia or longer.

The problem is, now what happens when you take our evolutionary heritage, finely tuned over the millennia, and plop it down into meat - and - potato - chip country?

Bruce Watson's latest work is a whirlwind tour of humanity's perception of the nature of light over the millennia — how something that was once considered miraculous has transformed into a tool that's «cheap and easy, available not just in every home and office but in every palm and pocket.»

Over the millennia, the Stone Age tribes huddled around the caves and hot springs of the Carpathian foothills developed into a cohesive society, and eventually into the Dacian kingdom.

It's also been just over half a decade since this millennium moved into adolescence, and in that time there've been some absolutely cracking games of all sorts, shapes, and sizes.

Against the historical background of mural paintings and wall designs dating back over millennia, artists in the early 20th century devised concepts for wall paintings, picture walls and wall reliefs, which went beyond the frame of an individual image in order to take an entire wall or interior space into view.

I was somewhat involuntarily thrust into the center of the public debate over climate change at this very time, when the «Hockey Stick» temperature reconstruction I co-authored, depicting the unprecedented nature of modern warming in at least the past millennium, developed into an icon in the debate over human - caused climate change [particularly when it was featured in the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC in 2001].

If our best scientists, with the accumulated knowledge of millennia, can not agree on the seriousness of our current situation or what climate variables will come into play over the next century, then how the heck are they supposed to determine the exact size, number, and placement of massive sun shields to deflect the perfect the amount of radiation, without any unforeseen consequences?

In one projected event, large parts of the ice sheet melt and drain into the ocean over the next millennia, raising global sea levels by several tens of meters.

As it happens, the extra heat travels into shallow seas along the continental shelf and, over time, the warming also spreads to the deep seabed, destabilizing methane hydrates and free gas trapped over millennia in the permafrost cap.

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, repOver 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, repover and over: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, repover: a long stagger into an ice age, a faster stagger out of the ice age, a few millennia of stability, repeat.

No other species could have accomplished the task of putting some of the carbon back into the atmosphere that was taken out and locked in the Earth's crust by plants and animals over the millennia.

Here, we argue that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist.

Langham led tours until he was 38, using the gigs to fund a 20 - year trek through undergrad, a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell, and a post-doc in Australia, where he first delved into climate modeling, investigating how shifts over millennia affected seven lizard species.

In testimony before the US Senate in 2003, he stated: It is the consensus of the climate research community that the anomalous warmth of the late 20th century can not be explained by natural factors, but instead indicates significant anthropogenic, that is human influences... More than a dozen independent research groups have now reconstructed the average temperature of the northern hemisphere in past centuries... The proxy reconstructions, taking into account these uncertainties, indicate that the warming of the northern hemisphere during the late 20th century... is unprecedented over at least the past millennium and it now appears based on peer - reviewed research, probably the past two millennia.

«Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia... Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.»

The mean was also more positive over most of the millennia until the Pacific shifted into an El Nino mode in the modern era.

Argues that the twentieth and twenty - first centuries, a period during which the overwhelming majority of human - caused carbon emissions are likely to occur, need to be placed into a long - term context that includes the past 20 millennia, when the last Ice Age ended and human civilization developed, and the next ten millennia, over which time the projected impacts of anthropogenic climate change will grow and persist