Sentences with phrase «high desert air»

A breeze rattled the found object wind chimes at the Found Object Wind Chime Museum and Visitor Center, and the high desert air carried that sound in front of it, all the way across town, down to the three trailers at the very end of Hard Pan.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Also hailing from the high desert, she knows her way around ensuring air flow in a carrier.

The telescope will be built at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Las Campanas Observatory in the dry, clear air of Chile's Atacama Desert, in a dome 22 stories high.

The dry air of the Atacama Desert and the flat land and high mountains offer the perfect place for building these giant telescopes.

This event marks the first appearance by the GT - spec Corvettes in the dry heat and thin air of the high desert near Salt Lake City.

However, throw into the mix the fact that hotel prices drop anywhere from 50 % to 80 % off their peak season rates (from the very high - end resorts down to basic chain hotels), restaurants otherwise normally difficult at best to get into are home to empty dining rooms, and the reality that the dry desert air doesn't really feel that bad (at least to this New York City dweller who suffers through perspiration - inducing walks from the subway to the office for the entire summer season), and you begin to realize Scottsdale is a smart, attractive and a not - very - scary destination for travel during the summer.

Choose between a relaxing camel ride or a fast - paced 4x4 desert adventure, then follow it by hopping into a hot air balloon ride, taking in the sights from up high.

Book a hot air balloon ride in Dubai to go high up in the sky and get the view of panoramic landscapes of Dubai Desert.

More subdued couples can heat things up in a hot - air balloon floating over the 1,000 - foot - high sand dunes — the largest in the world — of Namibia's Sossusvlei desert.

Damian Carrington at The Guardian notes that «the last time so much greenhouse gas was in the air was several million years ago, when the Arctic was ice - free, savannah spread across the Sahara desert and sea level was up to 40 metres higher than today.»

Descending air currents of High pressure systems are also the reason we have deserts and why the world's records for hottest temperatures on each continent are not at the equator but about 32 to 36 ° North as seen in the above diagram.

I am under the impression that the water content; by molecular abundance of the driest desert air anywhere on earth is always higher than the molecular abundance of CO2 in the same location at the same time.

Is there a particular reason that the desert southwest is always higher than the rest of the nation, or does Phoenix just emit a lot of hot air?

There are exceptions in the major desert regions, where the surface air is very dry despite its high temperature.

El Azizia took the record for highest temperature ever recorded on Sept. 13, 1922, when a thermometer on a weather station hit a whopping 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius), thanks to southerly winds blowing in hot air from over the Sahara Desert.

Present deserts, far from expanding, are receding; and they are receding due to the higher quantity of CO2 available in the air.