Sentence examples for human timescale from inspiring English sources

Once you've dumped CO~2~ into the atmosphere, there's no getting it back, at least not on a human timescale.

Once you've dumped CO2 into the atmosphere, there's no getting it back, at least not on a human timescale.

There is a disconnect between the human timescale and that of the forests, as 40 years is a fraction of the natural lifespan of these trees.

The loss of permafrost carbon to the atmosphere would be irreversible on a human timescale and would mean that larger reductions in man-made emissions would be needed to achieve any target for CO2 concentration or global temperature rise.

Scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have ended a nine-year debate over whether the Earth's inner core is undergoing changes that can be detected on a human timescale.

Naím's critique is at its most persuasive when detailing the consequences of this trend for issues like global warming which, because they don't operate on a human timescale, are unsolvable given an economy of power that's increasingly dependent on (and responsive to) shorter-term incentives.

Bad news, then, but not quite a collapse or at least, not on human timescales.

Humans can help avoid that by creating the sort of balance that cannot evolve for itself on human timescales.

Nixdorf's topographic studies reveal that geologic and human timescales are not so disparate, and that this old Earth is nimbler and more energetic than we might imagine.

Around 21% by area has unidirectional climate groundwater interactions and response times on human timescales, mostly associated with high permeability geology suggesting a strong lithological control (Fig. 2a).

Recent observations show that part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is currently retreating, and that this retreat might be irreversible on human timescales.