Sentences with phrase «because thin ice»

That's important because thin ice comes and goes, melting faster in the summer, but the old thick ice should be here to stay.

The average thickness is usually still falling at this time of year (presumably because thin ice is being added) but it has not yet been calculated for this year.

NSIDC scientists said there was a lot of thin ice at the beginning of the melt season, because thinner ice does not take as much energy to melt away, this may have also contributed to this year's low minimum extent.

It is particularly important to seasonal forecasts (such as the SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook that will be released later this month), because thinner ice is more likely to melt completely during summer.

This year stronger than normal, but not extreme, winds have caused the extreme ice loss because the thinner ice is more easily moved around by the winds, opening up areas of water much earlier in the spring.

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Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

Buuuuut, I hope you happen to have a lone box of Thin Mints tucked away in the back of your freezer (maybe you forgot about it... maybe you hid it from yourself...), because you are going to want to make this ice cream, like right now.

I must of done something wrong with the Icing, I knew it would thin because you said drizzel, but it very thin almost like water.

Spoiler text because I know I'm on thin ice with some people anyway (Pepsi and sour cream for life) but I was always really uncomfortable with how hateful people were towards Downing.

Rory McIlroy wants to hit driver on the 510 - yard, par - 5 13th (Phil Mickelson's «pine straw» hole in 2010), in the middle of Amen Corner, because an ice storm in 2014 thinned out the trees on the left.

«Because Cuomo is on such thin ice, he can not risk responding to Trump in a hard, definitive way,» Cox said.

How long these under - ice explosions of life have been going on is uncertain, he adds, because it is not year clear how closely tied the blooms are to the thinning sea ice and proliferating melt ponds caused by global climate change.

That is because the enormous glacier, which constitutes 10 percent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is thinning rapidly, allowing more and more of its land - based ice to reach the sIce Sheet, is thinning rapidly, allowing more and more of its land - based ice to reach the sice to reach the sea.

This thin ice, he says, is of most interest because it lets through the most heat.

Researchers say the ice thinning may accelerate because as it melts, it reflects less sunlight, which heats the surrounding waters even more.

Sea ice is more susceptible to global warming than continental ice because it is much thinner than continental ice.

But in your rock situation on the ice because of what you just explained about the thin film up front, you have the opposite frictional situation.

«It's most likely because that ice is being undermined through warmer ocean underneath the ice, which is contributing to the thinning of the ice and weakening of the shelf,» Trenberth said.

That puts ice at a disadvantage during the upcoming melt season because it tends to be thinner and more prone to melting.

Because they depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the polar bear is considered threatened as global warming melts and thins ice in this region.

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Gary Thompson: The clever little thriller «Thin Ice» has drawn comparisons to «Fargo,» I guess because there's snow and crime and Midwesterners.

So whilst the ice is more mobile because it's thinner, the fact that it's thinner means less volume is transported, the two factors balancing to give no increase in volume transport.

(And the average age of all ice never got above single digits) Because most of the thickness increases come in the first couple of years, and most old ice is «old» because it is nearing the end of its natural cycle (where it thins toBecause most of the thickness increases come in the first couple of years, and most old ice is «old» because it is nearing the end of its natural cycle (where it thins tobecause it is nearing the end of its natural cycle (where it thins to zero.)

Earlier predictions were also wrong because researchers thought thinner ice would melt faster in subsequent years.

Getting back to point # 1, September ice extent is highly variable because (as Ron pointed out): (i) the thinner ice of summer is more susceptible to the vagaries of weather, and (ii) the thinner ice is also more sensitive to the amount of melt.

It's worth bearing in mind that despite the increase in area export, volume export through Fram shows no trend, e.g. Spreen et al: http://soa.arcus.org/abstracts/fram-strait-sea-ice-volume-export-estimated-between-2003-and-2008-satellite-data This is because the ice being exported has thinned even as area export has increased.

In the autumns of 2007 and 2008, the rate of ice production was very large because there was so much open water and thin ice — the rapid growth is completely expected.

In part because of warming and the retreat and thinning of Arctic sea ice in summer, this northern sea route is slowly becoming a reality.

Tomorrow we might just go ahead and turn north before hitting the coast because we think we see thin ice in front of us.

Glaciers are sliding faster into the ocean because ice shelves are thinning due to warming oceans.

The volume of the ice lost is much less than that from the loss of a comparable area by Jakobshavn because the ice is an order of magnitude thinner.

Ainley believed the DuDu colony had been unable to recover since 1980 because global warming had caused a thinning of the sea ice resulting in a premature loss of sea ice that was drowning chicks.

This was because thin sea ice allowed for greater heat from the ocean.

New University of Colorado at Boulder calculations indicate the record low minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic last September has a three - in - five chance of being shattered again in 2008 because of continued warming temperatures and a preponderance of younger, thinner ice.

After an intense week of editing a paper on the need for national academies and royal societies to undertake environmental health risk assessments for climate change AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, especially to adopt the IPCC's best - case emissions scenario, RCP2.6 (because the IPCC does not and will not make recommendations), followed by a look at the fires burning in Siberia and the sea ice thinning in the Arctic, it struck me...

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However, because there were few data available for thin ice from IceBridge in March and no thin ice data at all in April, the thin ice statistics are not statistically significant and this should not be considered as a robust analysis.

That's because that great storm that came along in August destroying thin ice just created a situation primed for rapid refreezing which I also predicted back in August.

Because of the dramatic thinning, the total volume of sea ice is shrinking even faster than its area.

In the heat of Cancun, Mexico, everyone is learning that the fallacies of climate science — and especially attempts to exploit fear and lack of knowledge or understanding — are on very thin ice because they are totally politically motivated.

because I never came across a case where sky drivers vanished in the thin air and green house effect seems to be a reality with changing weather patterns and melting of ice at the poles.

It is the focus of intense current concern because the area near its grounding line, where it feeds a floating ice shelf, has exhibited rapidly increasing rates of thinning and concurrent retreat of the grounding line.

Scientists have been studying Pine Island Glacier closely because there is evidence that warmer seawater below the shelf will cause the ice grounding line to retreat and the glacier to thin and speed up.

No tittering, it's so puerile — every professor of climatology knows that the thickest ice ever is a clear sign of thin ice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice ever is a clear sign of thin ice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice, because as the oceans warm, glaciers break off the Himalayas and are carried by the El Ninja down the Gore Stream past the Cape of Good Horn where they merge into the melting ice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice Sheetice sheet, named after the awareness - raising rapper Ice SheetIce Sheet...

In this context, we note that once the categorization goes beyond a self - declared policy position, one is on very thin ice because the danger of «guilt by association».

So the question is: was it always this way, is it because the ice has thinned since the start of the interglacial, is it because of erosion, or is it because of post MWP regrowth?

«Because you could have an anomalously cold summer that allows a thin layer of ice to remain and increase the extent.

Never fear, minimum extent this year will be far below «normal», because as someone above mentioned, ice volume has not «recovered», and this thin stuff will melt like gangbusters as daylight hours lengthen up there.