Sentences with phrase «exceed freezing point»

Today, he said, summer temperatures approach or just exceed freezing point around Antarctica: «It would not take much warming to see a pretty dramatic increase [in surface melting] and it would happen very quickly.»

The Lindzen solution would suggest it is more practical for temperatures only exceeding the freezing point by small amounts (or having only tropical areas ice free).

Not exact matches

Exceeding the 400 parts per million level of worldwide atmospheric carbon dioxide later this decade continues a troubling trend which brings the world closer to the potential to reach a global warming tipping point in which global warming accelerates rapidly as the potent greenhouse gas methane is liberated from the frozen state that it has been in for millions of years.

The temperature in country doesn't exceed 13 °C, and in the mountain it was snowing at freezing point.

Bottom line is if there were no greenhouse gases in the atmosphere like on the moon, daytime high temperatures at the equator in the spring and fall would exceed the boiling point of water and of course nighttime temperatures would plunge far below freezing.