Sentences with phrase «over tens of thousands of»

The earth spins on its axis on an ever changing wobble (over tens of thousands of years) back and forth, affecting the angle of sunlight striking the poles (by up to about eight degrees, I think) as the result.

This shows the strength of the ice - albedo and carbon cycle feedbacks over tens of thousands of years...»

«Even for a total of 500 Gt C cumulative emissions, which is only slightly above the present - day value, the evolution of the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets is affected over tens of thousands of years (Fig. 4).

Surely what matters are (i) the effects on future generations over tens of thousands of years if runaway warming of several C is allowed to occur (ii) loss of biodiversity forever (iii) effects on developing world in our lifetime as well as beyond.

Under active investigation by the New York and Massachusetts Attorneys General, ExxonMobil has been turning over tens of thousands of documents, under subpoena, to New York AG Eric Schniederman, and is expected to do the same for Massachusetts AG Maura Healey.

All these changes take place over tens of thousands of years, but they can change the amount of sunlight that the Earth gets in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere, and these changes in the distribution of the sun's heat are closely tied to the rise and fall of ice ages.

Ice - flow corrections allow reconstruction of snow accumulation rates over tens of thousands of years with little additional uncertainty.

Back then, the rise in temperature had apparently stretched over tens of thousands of years, «rapid» only to a geologist.

They know that the highly regular ice ages are caused primarily not by CO2 increases and decreases in the atmosphere but by well known wobbles in the earth's rotation — over tens of thousands of years.

Glacial cycles (ice ages) are set in motion by (1) periodic wobbles in the tilt of the Earth's rotation, (2) changes in the tilt of its axis, and (3) the shape of its orbit occurring over tens of thousands of years.

Over tens of thousands of years, Milankovich cycles have increased and decreased seasonality, leading to periods of greater ice cover which in turn reflect away sunlight, cooling the planet.

And someone should also talk to the astronomers: «The collapse to a white dwarf takes place over tens of thousands of years, (Wikipage on gravitational collapse)».

This gradual removal of CO2 from the atmosphere reduces the overall greenhouse effect and thus slowly draws the entire planet into an ice age, driving further ice sheet expansion over tens of thousands of years (a complete ice age cycle is around 100,000 years)

Without our use of fossil fuels, we should be descending into another glacial maximum — albeit slowly, over tens of thousands of years (the pace of natural global climate change in the Pleistocene).

Now, if you were to transform these to Keplerian elements, you would see that the heliocentric elements are almost constant: they change at most slowly, with secular changes over tens of thousands of years.

We are very excited about our partnership with Travelport opening a new direct distribution channel for Hostelworld.com to over tens of thousands of travel agents worldwide.

Above the trail, canyon walls soar several thousand feet; waterfalls spill over them in long, glistening ribbons, carving natural amphitheatres over tens of thousands of years.

Collectively, the lives of over tens of thousands of dogs and their families have been bettered, and in many cases saved, thanks to this protocol.

Unfortunately, the canine species has evolved over tens of thousands of years to require mostly fats and proteins.

You go to college, fork over tens of thousands of dollars in tuition, graduate, and then end up landing a job that's either unrelated to your degree or pays way less than you wanted.

Why should anyone buy your shirt over the tens of thousands of other designs carried by the same production service?

The web browsing experience keeps out inappropriate content by using our own expertise to curate over tens of thousands of websites and YouTube videos.

Both front and rear suspension systems have been uprated and carefully tuned over tens of thousands of miles at Jaguar's testing centre at the legendary Nürburgring, the high - speed bowl at Nardo in Italy and, of course, the engineers» favourite roads around the Gaydon Research and Development centre and in north Wales.

It's a miracle that this car can be had in only 300 different permutations, which offers a great savings in cost over the tens of thousands of permutations in which cars like the Audi A6, BMW 5 Series, and Mercedes - Benz E-Class are offered.

These attempted to determine how ice thicknesses, temperatures and gas - hydrate stability likely changed over tens of thousands of years.

The researchers estimate that, over tens of thousands of years, the floods put out between 242 and 305 billion tons of sulfur dioxide.

The microbiota, which evolved over tens of thousands of years alongside their human hosts, constitutes a complex and diverse community whose exact composition varies from person to person.

«And someone should also talk to the astronomers: «The collapse to a white dwarf takes place over tens of thousands of years, (Wikipage on gravitational collapse)».

The Bornean orang - utan is further subdivided into three distinct, geographically and reproductively isolated subspecies, which last shared a common ancestor in the Pleistocene and have differentiated substantially over tens of thousands of years.

That's a rare bit of evidence of how much black - hole feeding can vary over tens of thousands of years.

Instead, the scientists believe, Madagascar was covered by a patchwork of forests, enabling the mouse lemurs to slowly disperse over tens of thousands of years between different areas.

No material we know of comes close to being strong enough to support its own weight over tens of thousands of kilometres.

That instability could make it hard for animals to hang on over tens of thousands of years.

«There must have been regional climate and chemical conditions that varied in time and space,» he says, adding that this would occur as the tilt of Mars's spin axis changed over tens of thousands of years, a wobble caused by the lack of a massive moon to stabilise the planet.

«It is just about possible that over tens of thousands of years Neanderthals thought up a way of doing one thing — making these tools — that humans hadn't thought of before,» says Coolidge.

In any case major change seemed impossible except over tens of thousands of years.

It's now becoming clear, however, that human ancestors not only lived in the rainforest but transformed it over tens of thousands of years.

The settlement follows years of controversy and legal recriminations between Trump and prosecutors over the venture, where many enrollees complained that they forked over tens of thousands of dollars and failed to receive the benefits the «University» advertised.

Store hypertables in the 100s of billions of rows, spread over tens of thousands of chunks, even while maintaining high ingest rates (independent of hypertable size).

It is laughable to believe that a federal governing body with supposed jurisdiction over the ten of thousands of agents in this country could so easily fall over in the Competition case.

Not exact matches

Russell Brunson has built a following of over a million entrepreneurs, sold hundreds of thousands of his books and co-founded software company ClickFunnels, which helps tens of thousands of entrepreneurs quickly get their message out to the marketplace.

Through her charity, B Strong, she brought with her four chartered planes (and over 10 planes as of Wednesday) packed with tens of thousands of pounds of medical supplies, water, food, baby diapers and wipes, as well as $ 25,000 in cash gift cards, cash, and $ 30,000 in Costco gift cards.

The event immediately killed dozens and scarred the lives of tens of thousands of people over the ensuing decades.

Tens of thousands of registration cards poured in over the next few months.

That's the equivalent of installing tens of thousands of Tesla's Powerwall batteries over the course of the next five years.

Over the years, I've certainly made bad decisions, many of which have cost me thousands of dollars (some tens of thousands).

Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry into the country for travelers from seven Muslim - majority nations.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

According to McGonigal, the government's conservative estimate is that over a roughly four - year period McKesson had failed to report tens of thousands of suspicious orders in those districts.

Over the past couple of years, Gillinder has spent tens of thousands of dollars to upgrade its backup generators so they can deliver enough energy to keep the furnaces running in the event of another blackout.