Sentences with phrase «first earth hour»

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And when his Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down a few hours later, the first American to orbit the Earth reminded us that with courage and a spirit of discovery there's no limit to the heights we can reach together.

Let us first be kind and set aside natural phenomena like a bolt of lightning, which is 1.7 million times faster than the car, or Halley's comet, which approaches Earth moving at some 240,000 km / hour.

Use this as a Teachable Moment My first grader's school observed Earth Hour on Friday.

Thanks to everybody who helped spread the word about Online Politics 101 — in its first 48 hours on Earth, it was been downloaded more than 2000 times and had scored a good dozen blog hits and at least two stumbles (whatever those are).

Astronomers have caught a star exploding just hours after light from the eruption first reached Earth.

The first image in the upper left was taken about 9.5 hours before closest approach, when Rosetta was still 510,000 km (315,000 miles) from the asteroid - more distant than the Moon is from the Earth!

The findings, presented last month at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, are from Juno's first five circuits, each lasting 53 Earth days, including a 6 - hour scan of the planet from north to south.

Astronomers have measured and mapped a weather system on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ever, and discovered a world where raging winds blow at nearly 5,400 miles per hour — nearly 20 times greater than the fastest ever recorded on Earth.

It implies that the terrestrial day was only about five hours long when the Moon first formed close to the Earth.

I'm a down to earth, centered, open minded and well rounded guy, that's good looking, healthy and sane, I'm looking to chat with some one that's like minded has the same interests and values, and discuss our interests, maybe meet up for coffee or a happy hour drink first, then see if we want to...

With a running time pushing three hours, it's not just an unexpected journey that the titular halfling embarks upon in this, the first big - screen adaptation of JRR Tolkien's enduringly popular children's book and the opening installment in Jackson's new Middle - Earth trilogy, it's a long one.

The role of Jericho Kane offered Arnie his first stab at grizzled and broken, a godless man up against Gabriel Byrne's petrol - pissing Lucifer, visiting earth to sire a son within the one - hour window circumscribed by Rod Steiger's stoup of mentally ill exposition.

I understand that setting the table for a completely new IP that takes place after the fall of humanity in an Earth ruled by robot dinosaurs is extremely tough, but the first hour or so of the game is mostly (beautiful) cutscenes.

The visual splendor of Zack Snyder is on full display, and what a magnificent looking piece of cinema it is, as the director does well playing somber and slow during the first hour - plus of build - up, only to finally get a chance to let it all rip in grand fashion for a lengthy showdown between godlike beings battling it out on Earth for the fate of two separate races.

Paradox pretty much spells out the rest of it in its first half hour, as we join a team of scientists in a space station orbiting Earth.

Fifty years ago this February ~ in a 9 1/2 by 6 ft. space capsule called Friendship 7 ~ John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.In a space about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle ~ Glenn orbited the earth ~ three times ~ in 4 hours and 56 minutes.

Day 2: We have breakfast at 6:00, then we go to Cruz del Condor view point in our transport, stopping in the village of Yanque and in a very impressive look out point to appreciate the amazing hydraulic system developed by the Collaguas ethnic group showed in this wonderful platforms and terraces of the Colca valley, then we continues to stop at La Cruz Del Condor to appreciate the deep Colca Canyon and the flight of the condor, after this we change the conventional guide for a trekking guide, then the rest of the group return to Arequipa, and you will start a new tour with our private trekking guide for Colca, that's why we call this excursion the mixed tour, we arrive to the side of the canyon and we start to hike Colca, descending 1000meters for 3 about hours, We will have lunch in the village of San Juan de Chuccho, here you will have a really nice view of the deepest canyon on earth, from this village after we continues again this hike true the Colca canyon arriving first up to Cosñirgua then we continue to Malata Village and after these interesting visits we'll go walk down the Canyon to Sangalle Valley, a beautiful place located at the bottom of the» el cañón del Colca».

While some reports have stated three to four hours for batterylife, ours didn't first conk out until we'd reached five hours of constant triple - A gaming across several titles, which while not being earth - shattering we found impressive considering the demands on the system.

I never got the chance to play the LOTR games for Playstation 2, so this would be my first experience in Middle Earth on consoles (Battle for Middle Earth 1 & 2 consumed hours of my life years ago).

That being said, this current log will focus on the first couple hours of the game, from your first missions on Earth to leaving for Saturn's moon, Titan.

Just yesterday marked the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the point in the year at which the Earth is the least tilted — resulting in nearly equal hours of night and day.

The video was released on Earth Day of this year and was viewed 12 million times in the first 12 hours.

By Sunil Sapkota, COPInMyCity Asia Officer On 24th of March 2018, I along with 70 other participants, celebrated WWF's Earth Hour Day with CliMates facilitating the first ever World Climate Simulation in Bhutan.

Eaarth, 9 Earth Day, 186 Earth First, 34 Earth Hour, 235 Earthquake, 72, 83, 217, 225 Earth Summit, 16, 36, 141, 182 Earth System Research Laboratory, 49 Eco-Imperialism, 40 Edenhofer, Ottmar, 37 Edison, Thomas, 211 Ehrlich, Anne, 18 Ehrlich, Paul, 18, 32, 185, 201 Einstein, Albert, 146 Eisenhower, Dwight, 172 Electricity, 18 - 21, 28, 38, 40 - 41, 43, 185, 187 - 188, 190 - 191, 194 - 201, 205, 214 - 215, 218 - 220, 228, 232, 234 - 235, 243 - 244, 246 Electric Reliability Council of Texas, 198 - 199 El Mundo, 228 El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), 67 - 69, 74 Emanuel, Kerry, 116 - 118, 164 Emissions Trading System (ETS), 20, 41 - 44 Energiewende (Energy Transition), 216 Energy, density, 191, 195, 205 - 206, 209, 212, 226 usage, 38 - 39, 184, 187 - 189, 206, 244 - 245 Energy Information Administration, 187, 190 Engerts, Gail, 233 England (see United Kingdom) Environmental Defense Fund, 179 Environmental Investigation Agency, 42 EON Corporation, 192, 219 Epps, Pat, 107 - 108 Equator Principles, 40 Eric the Red, 56 Ethanol (see biofuel) Europe, 13, 16, 20, 22 - 23, 28 - 29, 32, 39, 42 - 44, 57 - 58, 62, 74, 120, 123, 126, 130, 132, 134 - 135, 176 - 177, 187, 191,197, 204, 209, 211, 214 - 217, 224, 242, 244 - 245 European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), 15, 180 European Commission, Community (EC), 16, 22, 36, 41, 43, 187, 203 - 204, 210, 241, 244 European Environment Agency, 209 European Union (EU), 18, 22, 25, 29 - 30, 42, 203 - 204, 206, 238 Evans, David, 89, 239 Extinction, species, 9 - 10, 52, 71 - 72, 133, 136, 138, 186 Exxon Mobil, 176, 190

It's current president, Martin Rees wrote in 2004, Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century — On Earth and Beyond (sold in the UK as Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty - first Century?)

To see the cooling power of this effect you only have to compare earth surface temperatures (in a desert region with no cloud) with moon surface temperatures in the first 6 hours after sunrise.

Gary, I first became suspicious when introduced to these warmist backradiation ideas — my very first problem with it was seeing the claimed «rise in industrial CO2 driving temperatures» linked to a temperature rise from, and described as the Earth's norm, the end of the Little Ice Age and realising the great outpouring from industry didn't begin until the middle of the last century, maybe you're too young to remember the few cars being driven on practically empty motorways in rush hour..

Warren first wrote about Earth Hour in late 2006, describing the idea of saving energy and increasing awareness by turning out the lights for one hour, starting in 2Hour in late 2006, describing the idea of saving energy and increasing awareness by turning out the lights for one hour, starting in 2hour, starting in 2007.

In the first video, before the flip of the switch for Earth Hour, the man introduced as «Skip» was in fact Skip Lawrence of Lawrence Bros, LLC.