Sentences with phrase «shorter human timescales»

«One of the great challenges in astronomy is that some of the most important phenomena occur on astronomical timescales, yet astronomers are generally limited to much shorter human timescales,» said co-author Keivan Stassun, professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt.

Not exact matches

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.

«We have added another piece of information showing that the timescales on which humans have changed the composition of the atmosphere are extremely short compared to the natural time cycles of the climate system,» says Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern in Switzerland, who led the research.

Pegging the increase in cephalopod numbers to any one factor is tough, although the 60 - year timescale points to human influence: Natural ocean cycles are shorter, and so can't be responsible.

Humans work on human timescales, which are short.

«Methane is the strongest human greenhouse gas on a political or short timescale, and also has more bang for the buck in terms of addressing climate change,» said Leifer.

Short - term natural climate variations could also affect the long - term human - induced climate change signal and vice-versa, because climate variations on different space and timescales can interact with one another.