Sentences with phrase «tens to hundreds of thousands of years»

Never mind that cultures have endured for tens to hundreds of thousands of years without economic or population growth, yet our culture went from Adam Smith to the video above in under 250 years.

It has long been known that characteristics of the Earth's orbit (its eccentricity, the degree to which it is tilted, and its «wobble») are slightly altered on timescales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years.

Geological processes will take anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of years — perhaps longer — to redistribute the carbon further among the geological reservoirs.

«This study further confirms what we've suspected for some time, that the CO2 humans have added to the atmosphere will alter the climate of the planet for tens to hundreds of thousands of years.»

It was a slow pace of change, taking tens to hundreds of thousands of years, and yes as the myth states, in the last million years the biggest orbit - induced cycles were every 100,000 years.

A further reduction by carbonate sediment dissolution, and reactions with igneous rocks, such as silicate weathering and sediment burial, will take anything from tens to hundreds of thousands of years, or even longer.

The average rate of injection of carbon into the climate system during these hyperthermals was slower than the present human - made injection of fossil fuel carbon, yet it was faster than the time scale for removal of carbon from the surface reservoirs via the weathering process [3], [208], which is tens to hundreds of thousands of years.

«A lot of these events like the end - Permian and the Triassic - Jurassic, when they're linked to volcanism it does seem that these are relatively slow events overall, on timescales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years,» says Ridgwell.

The average rate of injection of carbon into the climate system during these hyperthermals was slower than the present human - made injection of fossil fuel carbon, yet it was faster than the time scale for removal of carbon from the surface reservoirs via the weathering process [3], [208], which is tens to hundreds of thousands of years.

They note that a «considerable fraction of the carbon emitted to date and in the next 100 years will remain in the atmosphere for tens to hundreds of thousands of years.»