Sentences with phrase «as warm currents»

This cycle coincides with the natural rise and fall of sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, which fluctuate roughly 0.2 degree Celsius every 60 years as warm currents shift.

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There is a direct connection between the current changes in the world's atmosphere and the rise in average temperature; this is known as global warming or the «greenhouse effect».

Back in the warm summer days of July, New York magazine posted an article entitled, «All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting», an examination of the current emotional and mental state of today's parents who were depicted as being harried, frustrated, and unfulfilled by the challenges of raising children.

Here (they will think) was a people who behaved as though the interesting and important thing about the Mass was the prospect of restyling the package; as though sin and folly resulted from a bad condition of the ecclesiastical machine; as though, given only a rending of garments according to current fashion and theory, our cold hearts would warm up naturally and painlessly.

As the strange reality - defying fog of the current administration finally lifts, global warming will become, as it is elsewhere, a political given — something like crime or low test scores that every politician is pledged to fighAs the strange reality - defying fog of the current administration finally lifts, global warming will become, as it is elsewhere, a political given — something like crime or low test scores that every politician is pledged to fighas it is elsewhere, a political given — something like crime or low test scores that every politician is pledged to fight.

The current weather situation (freezing cold) had me warming to some soup, especially as I've never made a sweet potato soup before.

Untimely infants who were breastfed only and kept warm through nonstop skin - to - skin contact have turned out to be youthful grown - ups with bigger brains, higher pay rates and less unpleasant lives than babies who got regular hatchery mind, as indicated by an investigation distributed for the current week.

The current injury came about because the so called professional didn't warm up before coming on the pitch as a sub.

Corbett, still wearing the checkered skirt and pulling up her neon arm warmers, planned to stay up late, as she has many times before in both her former and current lives.

The Lions will give a warm welcome to four of the current top six as well as Bristol City and bottom club Preston North End.

But so long as we have to choose between one or the other when playing big games, and as long as that means the PL's top scorer has to warm the bench, then I will continue to think there's something» not right» about our current squad.

LONDON: Jurgen Klopp says his current Liverpool squad is the strongest he has ever worked with as the players prepare for a return to action after a warm - weather training camp in Spain.

These ladies don't seem to be aware of the current SIDS guidelines stating as long as your babies head and face are uncovered and you are using cotton or bamboo bedding then it is perfectly safe to layer up the amount of these blankets to keep your baby warm.

You will enjoy a lunch with our current fellows to discuss the program and life as a resident in Boston — all in a relaxed and warm atmosphere.

President Trump's first term is ostensibly just warming up, but luminaries in his own party, (including VP Mike Pence, according to the NY Times), have begun what amounts to a shadow campaign for 2020 — as if the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue weren't involved.

The lights of Jerusalem twinkle around him on a warm evening as he worries, open - collared, about his current work as Middle East peace envoy.

But electronics warm up as electric current courses through them.

The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

The causes of the warming remain debated, but Liu and his team homed in on the melting glacial water that poured into oceans as the ice receded, paradoxically slowing the ocean current in the North Atlantic that keeps Europe from freezing over.

However, in light of our substantiation of the effects of «grand solar minima» upon past global climates, it could be speculated that the current pausing of «Global Warming», which is frequently referenced by those sceptical of climate projections by the IPCC, might relate at least in part to a countervailing effect of reduced solar activity, as shown in the recent sunspot cycle.»

A system of ocean currents, popularly referred to as the «Great Ocean Conveyor,» brings warm waters to the North Atlantic.

But some researchers have argued that the transition from the frigid climatic period known as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-- about 20,000 to 25,000 years ago — to the current warm Holocene Epoch brought habitat changes that killed off the mammoths with little or no help from humans.

If climate change gets catastrophic — and the world sees more than 6 degrees Celsius warming of average temperatures — the planet will have left the current geologic period, known as the Quaternary and a distant successor to the Ordovician, and have returned to temperatures last seen in the Paleogene period more than 30 million years ago.

Climate researchers from the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature variability changed as the Earth warmed from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.

«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.

As they report in a paper published July 16 in Current Biology, the minute insects employ a razor - sharp sense of smell to tip them off that a warm - blooded meal is nearby, and then use vision and other senses to home in on the feast.

A crucial distinction in the global - warming balance sheet — and another stumbling block for beginners starting to count carbons — is that researchers treat fuel from current plant growth as causing zero net greenhouse - gas emissions.

As the oceans have warmed and the climate has changed, hotspots are developing in regions where the currents that transport warm tropical waters towards the poles are strengthening.

The future of the currents, whether slowing, stopping or reversing (as was observed during several months measurements), could have a profound effect on regional weather patterns — from colder winters in Europe to a much warmer Caribbean (and hence warmer sea surface temperatures to feed hurricanes).

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

This is clearly the case with global warming, as the consequences of our current lifestyle are not likely to be fully realized for another 25 to 50 years.»

The latest spike in sea lion strandings began before the current El Niño pattern took hold, and before the large expanse of warm water known as «the blob» began dominating West Coast Waters in 2014.

The Arctic Ocean continually loses thick, old ice, the kind that easily survives a warm summer, as currents sweep it out the Fram Strait, east of Greenland.

But as the two shelves are on opposite sides of the peninsula and subject to different ocean currents, he says, «it was probably due to atmospheric warming».

Starting from the same kernel of scientific truth as did The Day After Tomorrow — that global warming could disrupt ocean currents in the North Atlantic — a study commissioned by the Pentagon, of all organizations, concluded that the «risk of abrupt climate change... should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern.»

Changes in ocean currents, Kennett says, triggered the methane bursts by channeling warmer water over continental slopes, as at Storegga.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

Current models don't suggest that this factor will increase as the climate warms, but the new study shows that it has in recent years.

It will show Manhattan frozen solid after the warm ocean current known as the Gulf Stream shuts down.

«Our research indicates that as global warming continues, parts of East Antarctica will also be affected by these wind - induced changes in ocean currents and temperatures,» Dr Jourdain said.

To hold global warming in check requires reducing current emission levels by as much as 70 percent by 2050, compared with 2010 levels, and nearly eliminating such pollution by 2100.

The argument is that the increased separation of the Antarctic land mass from South America led to the creation of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current which acted as a kind of water barrier and effectively blocked the warmer, less salty waters from the North Atlantic and Central Pacific from moving southwards towards the Antarctic land mass leading to the isolation of the Antarctic land mass and lowered temperatures which allowed the ice sheets to form.

A March study shows that one large swath of the ice sheet sits on beds as deep as 8,000 feet below sea level and is connected to warming ocean currents.

However, as stated in our Report (1), the spatial pattern of warming from the LGM to the current period is likely to resemble warming patterns following previous glacial periods (5, 6).

The large, bald - headed birds float on rising currents of warm air known as thermals, which they use to soar high into the sky without beating their wings, thereby saving energy.

Sea ice and icebergs also melt as ocean currents carry them to warmer places farther from the poles.

These are materials in which all resistance to an electrical current disappears at temperatures ranging from near absolute zero to as «warm» as around — 170 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 112 degrees Celsius).

On track, for these turtles, means following a warm, food - rich current system known as the North Atlantic gyre.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

That mismatch sets up currents in the fluid, causing the soapy water to stream from warmer to colder regions, a process known as Marangoni flow.