Sentences with phrase «few ice levels»

Mega Man is a series with quite a few ice levels to its name, so it's hard to pick just one.

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By putting the bottom of the cake on top, you have a level surface to ice and it will have fewer crumbs to navigate.

It alerts you when the ice bucket is full or when the water level is low, so you don't have to check on it every few minutes.

Computer model simulations have suggested that ice - sheet melting through warm water incursions could initiate a collapse of the WAIS within the next few centuries, raising global sea - level by up to 3.5 metres.»

The levels of chemicals related to metallurgy in the ice core gradually rose and plateaued over the next few decades, until around 1830.

Glaciologists have long worried that the West Antarctic ice sheet will collapse over the next few centuries, raising sea levels dramatically.

Whereas most studies look to the last 150 years of instrumental data and compare it to projections for the next few centuries, we looked back 20,000 years using recently collected carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea level data spanning the last ice age.

Within a few hundred years sea levels in some places had risen by as much as 10 meters — more than if the ice sheet that still covers Greenland were to melt today.

Humanity has now raised global CO2 levels by more than the rise from roughly 180 to 260 ppm at the end of the last ice age, albeit in a few hundred years rather than over more than a few thousand years.

These high sea levels, ranging from a few meters to 20 meters above today, imply that the Antarctic Ice Sheet is highly sensitive to climate warming.

Under these conditions, a disproportionately rapid retreat of summertime sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean over the course of the next few decades, followed by its complete disappearance — depending on how quickly CO2 levels rise — roughly 250 years from now, is to be expected.

The grim bottom line (for those emerging from recently melted ice caves): Bring carbon dioxide emissions under control within the next few years or face serious consequences, including rising sea levels, reduced agricultural productivity and a global economic downturn.

A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.

Calvert Island, in particular, is among the few places worldwide with a sea level that has remained relatively stable since the last ice age, a boon for scientists looking to study how people have lived for the past 15,000 years.

More climate stories ripped out of the back pages of the news: NASA says the record low Arctic sea ice levels in the last few years are the new normal.

The last few years show ice thickness consistently below previous levels.

Pine Island Glacier could collapse — stagnate and retreat far up into the bay, resulting in rapid sea level rise — within the next few centuries, raising global sea levels by 1.5 m11, 12, out of a total of 3.3 m from the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet13.

To check this, put a few ice cubes in a glass and check the water level.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

In his paper, he proposed a few theories as to what might have gone wrong, including the idea that the ice age model he used was inaccurate or that the estimations of 20th - century sea - level rise were too high.

Geologic shoreline evidence has been interpreted as indicating a rapid sea level rise of a few meters late in the Eemian to a peak about 9 meters above present, suggesting the possibility that a critical stability threshold was crossed that caused polar ice sheet collapse [84]--[85], although there remains debate within the research community about this specific history and interpretation.

If you too find yourself routinely opening the ice cream drawer at 10 pm, there are a few ways to regulate ghrelin levels and break the cycle of overeating.

Rather than reaching for that cookie or candy when energy levels dip, pop a few LifeIce Bite - Sized Ices — small tasty frozen cubes packed with healthy nutrients, such as kale, spirulina, ginger and superfruits mangosteen and yumberry, The cubes come in four flavors and are fat - free, low in calories and sugars, GMO - free and contain no preservatives.

It's interesting to note that when you play the first few levels of the game, there is almost no ice or frost to be seen, as the opening cinematic shows otherwise.

«After a few quick tests to feel the grip levels, I started tossing the car into drift extremely hard and fast — it was like the car was built for ice and I knew what I was doing.»

One of the few exceptions to the grabbable ledges are the iced - over ones in the snow levels.

And while this isn't a fanmix and isn't quite an ice level, Square did put out a holiday album remixing a few tunes from their games, and their remix of Wind Scene from Chrono Trigger is just plain fun!

For instance, if ice rebounds to 1979 levels in 2009 to 2011 that doesn't disprove global warming theory just like the last few years of low ice levels didn't prove it.

The Arctic sea ice just reached its lowest level in thousands of years and in a few years you will be able to sail a boat to the North Pole for the first time in human history.

The last few years show ice thickness consistently below previous levels.

Ian Joughin made some statements recently [context] that I thought were pretty solid about it being a few centuries before this kind of very rapid sea level rise can take place and that makes sense to me because there are some very important things that you have to do in order to turn on the rapid response of the Antarctic ice sheet — you have to get rid of a couple of big ice shelves for starters.

Despite the warmer climate during the Eemian, when seas were roughly 4 to 8 meters, or 13 to 26 feet, higher than today, the ice surface in the vicinity of the coring project was only a few hundred meters lower than its present level.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

If satellites show that Greenland ice melt has accelerated so much the last few years, why do satellites also show that sea level is going down since 2005?

Another, possibly best case scenario, shows that if global warming did not exceed the 2 degree Celsius benchmark, the millennial sea - level rise from the melting of Antarctic ice could likely be restricted to a few meters.

A few degrees of global warming has a huge impact on ice sheets, sea levels and other aspects of climate.

The increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — now higher than at any time in at least the past few million years — can be found as fossil bubbles in the geologically short - lived «rock» that is polar ice.

Long ice cores from East Antarctica show accumulation increased there following the LGM until it levelled off a few thousand years ago.

Rignot: East Antarctica has marine - based sectors like West Antarctica but few of them have retrograde beds, i.e. beds that get deeper inland, so they are more immune to rapid collapse yet they remain serious concerns for sea level rise because they hold together far more ice than West Antarctica.

The northern melting will likely add to sea level rise explains lead author, Shfaqat Abbas Khan: «If this activity in northwest Greenland continues and really accelerates some of the major glaciers in the area — like the Humboldt Glacier and the Peterman Glacier — Greenland's total ice loss could easily be increased by an additional 50 to 100 cubic kilometers (12 to 24 cubic miles) within a few years.»

He explains how measurements since the early 1990s show that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerating rate, which, if unchecked, will result in about 1 metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, and 6 - 9 metres in the next few hundred years.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

«We know from previous studies that in few years the temperatures above Greenland could rise by more than 10 degrees Celsius, and during the Ice Age the ocean's water level rose and fell several times by as much as 10 to 20 metres», she says.

Yes, people probably get the point that global warming and climate change mean higher sea levels, melting ice in the Arctic, fewer species, less snow for skiing, and bigger storms and droughts.

Starting this month, a giant NASA DC - 8 aircraft loaded with geophysical instruments and scientists will buzz at low level over the coasts of West Antarctica, where ice sheets are collapsing at a pace far beyond what scientists expected a few years ago.

There's various stories that in the 1880s, 1920s that ice levels were much, much lower than a few years previous.

This grim fact is even bleaker if the international community concludes that it should limit warming to 1.5 degrees C, a conclusion that might become more obvious if current levels of warming start to make positive feedbacks visible in the next few years such as methane leakage from frozen tundra or more rapid loss of arctic ice.

YES — CO2 HAS BEEN ON AN UPWARD CLIMB, to levels above those seen for the last few ice ages (with the proviso that ice cores records have poorer resolution the further back in time one goes; there may have been short - lived CO2 spikes that we can not see); is all of that human - driven, or is there a natural warming trend driving the release of biotic CO2?

Depending on how the weather plays out over the next few weeks, that minimum is likely to fall somewhere between second and fifth place, they estimate — still a remarkably low level that shows how precipitously sea ice has declined in recent decades.

Oh, and if CO2 levels reach 450ppm, the ice caps may melt in a few centuries.