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Since there is no ambient medium, all cooling has to be radiative (so will proceed on much different time-scales than on Earth - would it have any other different characteristics?) and I wondered if that could introduce complications in the quality or strength of the final product.
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We can directly observe evolution and its mechanisms, and have significant evidence of the process over geologic time-scales.
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We can directly observe evolution and its mechanisms, and have significant evidence of the process over geologic time-scales.
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Due to Arctic melting the Greenland ice sheet is particularly vulnerable, and a study by climatologist James E. Hansen states that “we cannot rule out large changes on decadal time-scales once wide-scale surface melt is underway.”
Think Progress » Obama explains climate science to global warming deniers. 2010
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Since there is no ambient medium, all cooling has to be radiative (so will proceed on much different time-scales than on Earth - would it have any other different characteristics?) and I wondered if that could introduce complications in the quality or strength of the final product.
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Though responsible for large CO2 emissions over short time-scales, the net CO2 emissions due to biomass burning are difficult to quantify due to the subsequent uptake of CO2 through regrowth of vegetation.
Carbon dioxide 2010
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Similarly, time-scales (such as lifespans and growth-rates) and sizes (such as genome lengths, RNA densities, and tree heights) scale as power laws with exponents which are typically simple multiples of 1/4.
Are Cities Just Very Large Organisms? Sean 2009
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We expect smaller changes in shorter time-scales and larger changes in longer time-scales.
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In geologically significant time-scales, we see even more dramatic changes, such as theropods evolving into primitive birds.
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Geomorphic response to river flow regulation: case studies and time-scales.
Effects of climate change on hydro-ecology of contributing basins in the Arctic 2009
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