Sentences with phrase «frigid climates»

Antarctica cooled from a temperate climate with wet glaciers to the frigid climate and cold - based glaciers it has today.

Now Steve Emslie, a marine ornithologist at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has developed an ingenious method of tracking climate change in the Antarctic: He has excavated and carbon - dated 45,000 years» worth of Adélie penguin poop, skin, bones, feathers, and eggshells from colonies preserved in Antarctica's frigid climate.

The scientific world has often seemed a bit cool toward women and minorities, but today a constellation of factors ranging from budget cuts to court rulings conspire to create a frigid climate for programs designed to promote diversity in the scientific work force.

The frigid climate of Ice Age Europe may have erected another barrier to people adapted to Africa, says Petraglia.

As evidenced by its landscape, the Northern Kremisphere is a broad region with a temperate to frigid climate, rather than tropical as on Donkey Kong Island.

Student behaviour can also be controlled with humour in ways that avoid injecting a draconian and frigid climate into classrooms (Stebbins, 1980).

There is only one way to know if a vehicle is ready for the coldest weather: spend time in it in Russia and Canada (or some other frigid climate).

Not exact matches

Because of moderate climate, no searing summer heat nor frigid winter cold, the wheat grown in Ireland is soft.

It is protected by its frigid waters and inhospitable climate.

Although that may not sound impressive, the bill conveys a positive message given the current frigid budget climate, says Michael Lubell, a lobbyist with the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C. «At least it's saying that if the rest of the government [budget] is going to be held flat, we should still spend more on energy research,» Lubell says.

There is evidence that Arctic blasts of frigid air could become more common as a result of climate change, though scientists say more study is needed to firmly draw any conclusions.

As a result, the frigid flow plays a critical role in regulating circulation, temperature, and availability of oxygen and nutrients throughout the world's oceans, and serves as both a barometer for climate change and a factor that can contribute to that change.

Now a study of volcanic rocks from early in life's evolutionary story shows that such eruptions coincided with a change in the climate from frigid chill to sweltering heat.

As climate changes, these three scientists are enjoying some truly cool — if sometimes frigid — field work

Beetles gained similar strength in the Rockies during mild winters in the late»90s and early 2000s, killing not only their usual victims but also entire hillsides of ancient whitebark pines, which live at altitudes once too frigid to support the insects.A beautifully concise explanation of what has happened in a large portion of the West, thanks in part to climate change.

Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.

This, the mayor discovers from the «brainiest brain» Who - Scientist Dr. Mary Lou Larue (Isla Fisher), is the imminent demise of Whoville, owing to geographic instability and, essentially, climate change (unexpected snowfall and frigid temperatures confirm her prediction, sending the mayor into a tizzy).

He remotely starts the Enclave, which actuates the heat on the standard automatic climate control and activates the available heated front seats so the family can arrive to a warm car in the frigid parking lot.

The data connection also allows the driver to connect with the vehicle remotely to monitor and schedule charging of the plug - in hybrid's battery pack, to monitor the vehicle's location or to remotely activate the climate controls to, for example, warm the cabin on a frigid morning, using power from the grid rather than the battery.

This furry covering insulates the dog from the frigid weather, harsh climates and provides a natural sunscreen in the summer.

Most of these dogs are not provided adequate vet care nor nutrition and are often exposed to climate extremes without shelter from our frigid winters or sweltering summers.

Dogs are often exposed to climate extremes without shelter from Iowa's frigid winters or sweltering summers.

Considering what I've learned in the nine years since I got to visit the frigid summit and eroding edges of Greenland's amazing ice sheet, in a final note to Alley here's how I described my reply to the Climate Desk's «Can We Save Greenland?»

Paradoxical, though, are possible ties between climate change and the recent spate of frigid weeks in eastern North America.

The frigid weather, freezing families, record budget deficits, soaring unemployment — and complete failure of global warming computer models to predict anything other than «a warmer than normal winter» — have caused a meltdown in Europe's longstanding climate and energy policies.

The frigid cold was due to a weak jet steam, a phenomenon that some climate scientists believe may be linked to the decline in Arctic ice.

Climate Myths: We keep reading about how the extreme weather of 2017 is the «new normal» thanks to global warming — even if the weather in question is frigid air.

This would be pretty ideal in our frigid Wyoming climate as long as you can use sufficient wall thickness to achieve a decent R value.

But the idea that a lack of sea ice sends swirling air masses south and smacks us with horrid, frigid winters has stirred controversy in climate science.

Release from the combined environmental stresses of a frigid, glacial climate near sea - level and a major impact in low latitudes may have been a factor influencing subsequent Ediacaran biotic evolution.»

The continents changed which caused the ocean currents to change and that changed the climate and caused Antarctica to become the frigid place that it is today.

The illusion has stifled real progress on climate talks almost since they began in 1992, but it started losing its grip two years ago, on a frigid morning in Warsaw, when negotiators abandoned the quixotic quest for a one - size - fits - all, top - down agreement like the failed Kyoto Protocol and aimed instead for a global framework within which countries can embed their own unique climate action plans.

Climate scientists Charles Greene and Bruce Monger of Cornell University, writing earlier this year in Oceanography, provided evidence that Arctic icemelts linked to global warming contribute to the very atmospheric pattern that sent the frigid burst down across Canada and the eastern U.S.

There are thriving ecosystems in the frigid regions near the earth's south pole, but what would happen if the entire globe became that climate in one century or even several?

Scientists have long taken a similarly cautious stance, but more are starting to drop the caveat and link climate change directly to intense storms and other extreme weather events, such as the warm 2012 winter in the eastern U.S. and the frigid one in Europe at the same time.