Sentences with phrase «heating large bodies of water»

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Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

A sensory deprivation pod is like a large bathtub filled with about 12 inches of water, 800 to 1,000 pounds of Epsom salt and is heated to about the same temperature as your body.

This makes sense since warming the surfaces of the world's oceans would tend to decrease their CO2 - carrying - capacity, and this would be a slow process due to the buffering effects of the specific heat capacity of these large bodies of water.

In the case of water surfaces, the transfer is by convection and may consequently be affected by the horizontal transport of heat within large bodies of water.

I'm not an expert but I have a problem with a cold body (a small amount of CO2 and water vapour) heating a much larger warmer earth.