Sentences with phrase «faster than ice»

One thing is for sure: the air measure sure swoops off a heck of a lot faster than the ice cores!

Still worse, ice volume may be decreasing faster than ice extent.

Re my suggestion of a step change, I was indeed thinking of an ocean circulation organization happening fairly quickly, potentially faster than ice sheet melt, and nothing like millions of years.

That certainly puts FIG at the other end of the spectrum from, say, ART whose AUM is melting away faster than an ice cube in the Sahara... The only real hope I see for ART shareholders is for GAM to grudgingly buy it back.

Deluxe all - inclusives can melt your wallet faster than an ice - cream in the midday sun but Toronto - based travel blogger Corinne McDermott has discovered that smaller, no - frills resorts are a great budget - stretching option.

Overall, Jelly Bean is noticeably smoother and faster than Ice Cream Sandwich, the current version of Android that came out late last year.

The ice melting from ocean heat flux decreases faster than the ice growth does in the weakly stratified Southern Ocean, leading to an increase in the net ice production and hence an increase in ice mass.»

And in many places, it's moving faster than the ice is thought to have retreated during the warming period at the end of the last ice age, around 20,000 years ago.

Even directly out of the freezer, an oil - based cube of herbs will soften and melt much faster than a ice cube of equivalent size.

The media industry is on some pretty shaky ground these days, with advertising revenue and readers both disappearing faster than an ice cream cone on a July afternoon.

Not exact matches

As a result, the coastal ice caps and glaciers lose their melting ice as run off 65 percent faster than they can recapture it — contributing to a loss of ice equivalent to roughly 14 percent of the total mass of Greenland.

While that does not seem substantial, imagine the power it takes to boil a pot of ice water and then imagine process happening faster than a human could comprehend.

Ice cores have shown faster temperature change even than the Gore Prophets are screaming about.

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

However, it seems their clientele have sticky fingers, and the copper mugs that the mules are served in vanish faster than Vanilla Ice's music career.

I do make a steady stream of ice pops during the summer, as they are fast, refreshing, and a lot healthier than purchased frozen treats.

While you're shopping for your mugs, you may also want to get some giant ice cube molds — they are better in drinks because they melt slower and don't dilute your bevvie as fast if you're a slow sipper rather than a gulper.

But decided in favor of popsicles at the last - minute, because popsicles freeze faster than a tub of ice cream.

If the layout of this tiny Larchmont staple reminds you more of your favorite crowded bar, then you're already an insider: Wave your hands and get the barista - cum - bartender's attention, because you'll want a G&B shake (four shots of espresso blended with McConnell's vanilla ice cream) faster than you can say, «Wow, their macadamia - almond milk really is that good.»

If nothing else, a younger / faster team, even if more chaotic, is likely to be more successful in today's NHL than the mostly slow meandering team that's being iced now.

Harkness» boys at RPI tended to be slower than a lot of other teams, and it seemed that whenever a really fast - skating team came up to Troy the arena would get terribly warm, so warm that the ice often became soft and slushy.

Ice caps are melting faster than predicted, violent storms are the new normal (ask Long Island residents who were flooded last week), oceans are warmer, wild fires consume thousands of acres in the far West, draught racks almost half of our heartland.

Water heats more slowly than land, creating pressure differences that drive high - speed winds; fast - burning fires spawn flame - breathing vortices; the pressure waves of a plane on takeoff transform water into ice.

Using a mix of calcium chloride, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, and magnesium chloride, the Natural Alternative ice melt is faster and more effective than plain rock salt.

It's a lot faster than relying on those ice cube trays in your freezer, and it doesn't take up much space at all!

It melts ice and snow 36 times faster than rock salt!

Growth rates for concentrations of carbon dioxide have been faster in the past 10 years than over any 10 - year period since continuous atmospheric monitoring began in the 1950s, with concentrations now roughly 35 percent above preindustrial levels (which can be determined from air bubbles trapped in ice cores).

By measuring the remaining difference — the 20,000 - year old ice deep in the West Antarctic ice sheet is about 1 degree Celsius cooler than the surface — the scientists were able to estimate the original temperature based on how fast pure ice warms up.

A «fast and effective way to clear frost, ice and snow», it is apparently easy to sprinkle, it is less corrosive than salt, it stops refreezing for up to 24 hours, it is biodegradable and it is safe with animals and plants.

But scientists have found that the ice in Antarctica is melting even faster than they thought it would.

On the other hand, there were signs that disintegrating ice sheets could raise sea levels faster than most scientists had expected.

Denser materials, such as liquids or solids, carry energy better, so heat is transferred to the ice more quickly through liquid than it is through air, which warms up the ice and allows it to melt faster.

The biggest waves seen in northern sea ice show how this vital cover can be crushed much faster than expected

These particles can build up electric charges faster than the soil can dissipate them and may cause sparking, particularly in the polar cold of permanently shadowed regions — unique lunar sites as cold as minus 240 degrees Celsius and known to contain water ice.

By the late 1980s, the average ice velocity at the front of the shelf was around 20 percent faster than in the preceding decades, the researchers report in a paper to be published in Geophysical Research Letters.

The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession — prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.

In a March report in Geophysical Research Letters scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) describe how large waves can penetrate more deeply into ice cover and break it up faster and more completely than anyone had suspected.

Studies by glaciologist Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine and others suggest that ice sheets could melt faster than scientists initially thought.

Islands are disappearing, Arctic sea ice is melting faster (pictured) than the most pessimistic of predictions, and we may lose Greenland's ice sheet way ahead of schedule.

In 2006, satellite data suggested the ice sheet was disappearing three times faster than previously thought.

EL61, as it is officially known, is a mass of ice and rock that flops through space with a spin rate far faster than that of any known body its size, making complete rotations around its wide axis every four hours.

The biggest changes were seen in West Antarctica, where more than a fifth of the ice sheet has retreated across the sea floor faster than the pace of deglaciation.

While the ECS factors in such «fast» feedback effects as changes in water vapor — water itself is a greenhouse gas, and saturates warm air better than cold — they argued that slow feedbacks, such as changes in ice sheets and vegetation, should also be considered.

That is bad news, because warm water melts ice much faster than warm air.

He and colleagues want to figure out whether the dark tinge on the ice from those microbial residents helps explain why the ice sheet is melting faster than expected from climate change alone.

broken up ice melts faster than block ice so why keep braking it up.

Faster than normal ice loss rates continued through August, a transition month when ice loss typically begins to slow.

During the first ten days of September this year, the Arctic lost ice at a faster than average rate.

Those same lakes, along with other evidence from around the world, also points to the shifting of rain belts after a rapid loss of Arctic sea ice about 14,600 years ago that saw the Northern Hemisphere heat up faster than the Southern.

He says previous predictive models of Greenland's ice loss did not adequately take into account the faster movement of its southern glaciers, which is accelerating the amount of ice entering the ocean: «Greenland is probably going to contribute more to sea level rise, and faster than predicted by these models.»