Sentences with phrase «slowly over hundreds of years»
Scientists thought ice sheets and glaciers would respond to warming slowly over hundreds of years.
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For that is exactly what has happened over the last four hundred years, as all the aspects of the new world have been slowly impressing themselves upon man.
Coral is a stationary animal that slowly grows on seafloors over tens and even hundreds of years.
Much of the extra carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by humans over the past two hundred years is being absorbed into the ocean and slowly making the ocean more acidic.
«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.
Climates do change, however — they just change very slowly, over hundreds or even thousands of years.