Geologic history shows that over a LONG time period that sea level changes by about 65 feet (20 m) for each degree C of change in the ocean.
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In 2003 Hansen wrote a widely distributed (but not peer reviewed) paper called Can We Defuse the Global Warming Time Bomb? in which he argues that human-caused forcings on the climate are now greater than the natural ones, and that this, over a long time period, can cause large climate changes.
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Mr. O'CONNOR: The ICP technology involves drilling holes--vertical holes into the ground and inserting long electric heaters, which then gradually heat the rock over a long period of time, and over a long period of time--by that, I mean two or three or more years.
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The apartheid government over a long period of time and the atrocities being documented over a long period of time caused many around the world to call for divestment in South Africa, the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela, et cetera.
It's very, very rare to be in a vegetative state for a long period of time and wake up.
"It's a big loss for the England team, he has been a quality batsman for a long period of time, " Hussey said.
Monitoring the ecology of a particular area over a long period of time were among the projects that depended upon voluntary participants, Dr Newman said.
Pensioners are vulnerable and they need to know they have a security of payment over a long period of time.
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However I have given this a lot of thought over a long period of time, and personally do not believe the situation in Zimbabwe is such that I can tour at this stage.
He's been a wonderful player for Australia for a long period of time.
So a pandemic that will make a lot of people sick over a long period of time is something to worry about.
"This is a process which goes on over a long period of time, " Romney said in a CNN interview Friday from Portsmouth.
Most communities hosting Syrian refugees are the poorest in Lebanon with very weak economies that cannot support such a large number of guests for a long period of time.
It is not the first time they have felt like this in a long period of time.
Of course, bucket brigades are a pretty inefficient way to fight a fire, delivering little water over a long period of time.
The band's manager Nigel Dixon said the schedule of 40 to 50 concerts a year was "not sustainable for a long period of time".
The one thing we do know, however, is that once a reputation is marred, it takes a lot of hard work, and a long period of time, to regain its luster.
It was a benign, water-rich environment for a long period of time.
We can see things -- we pass over the same portion of the Earth every day, so it's a regular observation that we can make over a long period of time, as well.
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"Nursery products are high risk because you have a very young child who is unsupervised for a long period of time and of an age when it doesn't appreciate or understand risk, " he added.
Now, we have a package, as we work through the differences between the House and the Senate, and we'll put it up on a Web site for all to see over a long period of time, that meets those criteria, meets those goals.
This usually is a traditional French beef and vegetable stew simmered over a long period of time.
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Averaging 33% over a long period time (versus something short, like a week) would still be a challenge.
Thank God it's not going to be solely up to me. (Laughter.) But it's going to take all of us -- parents, schools, communities -- working together for a very long time, over a sustained period of time.
Close textual analysis of the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as examination of historical evidence and study of how such works are transmitted in a culture, logically pointed to the works being the output of unknown authors over a very long period time.
Prosecuting, North Yorkshire trading standards said it "was a serious and deliberate fraud, which took place over a long period of time".
"It's a culture of violence that has enveloped this city for a long period of time ... and it's one of the things that we as a community have got to stop, " the mayor said.
Argentina had a big bearing on that and they kept the ball for a long period of time.
But Immigration Minister Mark Harper said a lot of the cases had been "inherited" over a long period of time and many would "actually turn out not to be in the country".
The moral of the story is that there is no magic point where deficit spending leads to a fiscal crisis, but we do know that it is a bad idea for governments to engage in reckless spending over a long period of time.
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