Sentences with phrase «change like ice»

For example, natural climate change like ice ages is irrelevant to the current warming.

They note past ages that have been equally warm or warmer without human influence, to say nothing of repeating patterns of climate change like ice ages (though I've met one of James Hansen's computer modelers who told me with sincere conviction that there would not be another ice age).

Long term and large - scale changes like ice age / interglacials and small - scale and short - term changes like El Nino show what happens to ecosystems in a changing climate.

To put that in perspective, we're currently warming around 0.2 C / decade, which far surpasses historical climate changes like the Ice Ages.

Global warming is remaking the Arctic, with changes like ice - free sea lanes across the Arctic Ocean in summer, or no - longer - so - eternal permafrost on land, unprecedented in human history.

Not exact matches

Still, like the first cracks in the ice of late winter, North Korean leader Kim Jong - un's symbolic step into South Korea may be a harbinger of change.

«If you're trying to detect change in something, you need long and continuous uninterrupted records of things like the sea ice or sea level rise or Greenland's ice sheet,» Shepherd said.

We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change from more boring sources like global temperature averages, or the extent of global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in ice cores.

One possibility: time is just another spatial dimension except at the beginning of space and time This is perhaps like formation of an ice crystal or alignment of magnetic domains, a phase change in which time becomes timelike.

Like water turns to steam or ice depending on environment matter also changes form when energy is added or subtracted.

The internal phase changes that separate matter positive potential energy from gravitation negative potential energy are no more mysterious than other phase changes like separating ice from water.

1) What makes universe crafting all - powerful all - knowing ice decide to melt (the age old, how is this not «God» changing his mind that never gets answered) 2) You speak of it like the ice goes away, and the water takes over.

You can skip roasting the strawberries if you like and just use jam in the center instead, but I beg you not to because roasted strawberries have the ability to, oh, you know, change your life and all — ladled over ice cream, swirled into muffin batter, layered with yogurt and granola, blended into smoothies, spooned over pancakes.

Their dates have been a game change for my ice cream recipes and have even used them in some savory recipes like my guajillo sweet potato tacos.

Nice for a change, and perfect for hot cacao, milkshakes (makes them taste like ice - cream), creamy smoothies, over cereal, as the base for chia seed pudding, or simply as it is.

You can not not like it so give it a go a let it change your experience with vegan ice cream

These bars can be served chilled or warm with a big scoop of ice cream if desired.You can change to various fruits during the summer time, like cherries, any type of berries and recreate this amazing dessert with various flavors.

I'm obviously not above a glass of plain old iced wine and club soda, but the addition of a little liqueur and some fresh «floaters» like fruit, cucumber, and even herbs (I'm partial to mint and basil) really changes the game.

I'm the one they say can change your life No waterfall, she drippin» wet, you like my ice?

Obvious ones, like reduce the liquid or add more ice obviously work, but, again being the resistant - to - change - type that I am, I like how my usual amounts of ingredients perfectly fill my favorite smoothie cup and my belly, and of course adding more ice dilutes the perfectly balanced flavor I've achieved.

They should be smeared on thickly (like cake icing) at each diaper change.

... you know a lot of it is attitude like I say and going through the positive part of pain in labour and, and using your rest periods really effectively, not getting ahead of yourself, trying to just stay in one contraction at a time and I teach them that prior to labour but I also reinforce that a lot in labour and then comfort measures like water, we have great showers in our hospital, we don't have tubs which is unfortunate but it is true the hot water never stops running so lots of my clients spend long times in the shower and different position changes and heat and ice and all of those things that we can use.

Astronomical factors also play a role in relation to the great changes like the shift between ice ages, which typically lasts about 100,000 years and interglacial periods, which typically last about 10 - 12,000 years.

In one case, a graph showed that people generally prefer chocolate cake to carrot cake but that the degree of their preference changed when variables like icing or frozen or fat - free cake were introduced.

Amorphous water ice islands (the dark areas in the photos) change shape and spread over the substrate like liquid, which is indicated by the blurring of the images.

Ice loss caused by climate change is opening up the Arctic, and it looks like the competition to take advantage has the potential to destroy the region and affect the entire planet.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

Even models that correctly capture cloud behavior may fail to fully account for other climate feedbacks from factors like changing snow and sea ice cover, atmospheric water vapor content, and temperature.

«When we think of climate change having an impact on a mammal species, what comes to mind most immediately is an Arctic animal like the polar bear, which depends on sea ice to survive,» Helgen said.

They're not the same at the end of the game as they are at the beginning, so the skip has to have a good understanding of how these ice condition [s] change and what, you know, which path you would take to curl more at the end of the game as opposed to beginning of the game and all sorts of things like that.

In the past decade, paleoclimatologists have reconstructed a record of climate change over the last millennium by consulting historical documents and examining indicators of temperature change like tree rings, as well as oxygen isotopes in ice cores and coral skeletons.

These ice - like water and methane structures encapsulate so much methane that many researchers view them as both a potential energy resource and an agent for environmental change.

The study stops short of attributing California's latest drought to changes in Arctic sea ice, partly because there are other phenomena that play a role, like warm sea surface temperatures and changes to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, an atmospheric climate pattern that typically shifts every 20 to 30 years.

«With something like the Antarctic ice sheet, some of these processes take centuries, and the amount of time we've been able to observe changes is at the maximum 20 years,» Bingham said.

That's a process playing out throughout the Southern Ocean, but scientists don't have a good grasp on it or how sudden changes like the loss of a huge hunk of ice will alter carbon uptake.

«Considering that the surface is moving much faster than we had previously thought, it could also affect things like the stability of the ice caps and help us to understand past climate change.»

It makes me wonder if the rest of the changes we think we see are also caused by natural conditions much like what causes the end of an ice age and the warming that follows.

The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.

Partly as an addendum to comment # 1, I'd like to hear if anyone knows of any research which attempts to quantify the likely change to the planetary heat balance in a zero summer sea ice scenario, such as we may see well before 2040.

And while some events, like the U.S. winter storms and the record high Antarctic sea ice extent, could be pinned to a particular cause, that cause could not be linked to climate change.

It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..

The more dynamic picture in the new simulations suggests that the rate of change in the first half of this century — which does not involve a significant contribution from processes like marine ice - cliff instability, or hydrofracturing — is essentially uncorrelated with the rate of change later in the century.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

In geological time, the balance of the system has changed several times, and just like any system can have a resonance at certain points, the climate can reach a resonant point where it is teetering between two states (our current 100,000 year ice age warm period cycle).

In order to really understand how Antarctica is changing right now, he'd like to see a mass ice core collection effort spanning the entire continent.

Seismic stations record data that allows us to understand the properties of the Earth's interior, like the strength of the crust and underlying mantle, giving us a more complete understanding of how the Earth is responding to changes in the ice sheets.

In addition to body changes, drastically less free time and money to spend on shopping, curating clothes, and paying attention to fashion trends, and increased likelihood of kid staining, stretching clothes, theres also the fact that you basically put your entire wardrobe on ice for a year or more due to pregnancy and nursing, so it doesn't really get the gradual updating over time that people normally do, so the little wardrobe details like how pants or sweaters fit or which boots you have will just be a little more behind the fashion curve.

I'd like to see people wear something else for a change, but for that to happen, we're gonna need to put these things on ice for a little while.

The ending, which was famously changed from Hughes original script to give everyone a much more hopeful outcome, is like that cherry in an ice cream sundae — sweet, but largely unnecessary for one's overall enjoyment.

And the little additions are like the sprinkles on top of your favorite ice cream sundae — just a little change that makes it taste even better.