Sentences with phrase «ice increased by»

For example, as I pointed out in the data I cited, the sea ice increased by a couple of percent from 1995 - 2002.

The volume of Arctic sea ice increased by around a third after an unusually cool summer in 2013.

Worse, my jaw dropped when I heard Rep. McKinley claim that Arctic sea ice increased by 60 % from last year to this year, a false figure he apparently got from a typo in a bad newspaper article!

Not exact matches

While the consumption of vanilla increased 1 % and chocolate fell by 1 %, the popularity of maple walnut hiked by 6 % and cherry ice cream increased by 8 %.

David, after your post four days ago of a smug, smirking, fake - Beatle - esque - hairstyled Harper, I was going to suggest that such images are dangerous to one's health since blood pressure increases to unhealthy levels and said images be replaced by an ice sculpture.

If you wait 5 minutes, the secular world will increase the age of the earth by billions of years... and then the ice core dates will be trivial and likely moved as well.

Additionally, ice sheets are sometimes affected by increased ocean temperatures that literally undermine the ice sheets and melt them from below.

As I said long ago,» the evolutionary vigor of Mankind can wither away although it be surrounded by mountains of coal, oceans of petroleum and limitless stocks of corn; it can do so as surely as in a desert of ice, if Man should lose his impulse, or worse, develop a distaste for ever - increased growth «in complexity and consciousness».

I played around by switching to milk chocolate and increasing the heavy cream by around 3 - 4 more tablespoons to keep it soft on ice cream and now I have my go - to recipe.

A global shortage of milk powder has led to major price increases which must be absorbed by ice cream manufacturers.

One way of increasing the value of ice cream products is by making them tastier and more eye - catching, delicious and attractive.

I followed some fellow cooks» advice and increased the spices by a third, used 1/2 applesauce for the oil, soaked the raisins in rum and also, because I had light rum, doubled that for the icing.

Taste the result and adjust the flavors by adding more triple sec to make it sweeter, more lime juice to make it more tart, more tequila to increase the heat level, or more ice to decrease the heat level.

Was that punishment, or was it justified by the increased ice time he would be expected to see?

We won't make ice hockey safer for players by increasing penalties for dangerous play.

In December of 1972 the vote went against the Park District's referendum to issue $ 2,550,000 in general obligation bonds for park improvement and development including the construction of a fieldhouse at Dryden Park, land acquisition, the construction of a north side maintenance garage, and the construction of an indoor ice rink complex along with increasing the corporate tax rate by.025 %.

«The risk for ice jam flooding is currently above average in some places, and may increase with time,» said today's flooding outlook issued by the National Weather Service in Binghamton.

This water pump can be put out of action or weakened by changes in the freshwater pressure, the ice sheet breaking up or shifting sea ice and this results in the increasing climatic variability.

The result: Surface temperatures increased rapidly, especially in the Arctic, which saw its September sea ice cover shrink by 25 percent.

If the planet is covered by an immense amount of water, the pressure at the bottom of the ocean will increase to such an extent that water occurs in the form of «Ice VII,» which does not exist on Earth.

Curiously, the decline in atmospheric oxygen over the past 800,000 years was not accompanied by any significant increase in the average amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, though carbon dioxide concentrations do vary over individual ice age cycles.

The intense 1997 - 98 El Nino increased the height of these ice shelves by more than 25 centimeters (10 inches).

Following Earth's last ice age, which peaked 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic warmed between two and three times the average temperature increase worldwide, according to a new study by a team of American geophysicists.

What happens when the world moves into a warm, interglacial period isn't certain, but in 2009, a paper published in Science by researchers found that upwelling in the Southern Ocean increased as the last ice age waned, correlated to a rapid rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Instead, IceCube's focus is on the big picture: It catalogs an increase of light in its detectors produced by neutrinos interacting in the ice in time slices of two billionths of a second, says IceCube leader Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

They reported rapid advances of the rift in January, May and June, which increased its length to over 200 km and left the iceberg hanging on by a thread of ice just 4.5 km (2.8 miles) wide.

With scientific projections showing that melting ice will dramatically increase polar shipping opportunities by 2050, the decisions could have implications for decades, analysts say.

Black carbon, or soot, can speed up melt by making ice dark, increasing absorption of solar energy.

But after the Alaska earthquake network's hardware was upgraded in 2007, the number of ice - quakes picked up by the sensors increased.

Climate sceptics point to increased sightings by indigenous Canadian communities, though that could be due to declines in sea ice driving the animals ashore.

«The rise at the end of the Ice Age and today is about the same [a rise of 100 ppm] and we're going to be well above and beyond,» most likely increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases by hundreds of parts per million from preindustrial levels, Shakun notes.

Melting can be rapid: as the last ice age ended, the disappearance of the ice sheet covering North America increased sea level by more than a metre per century at times.

By lubricating the bedrock, it will speed the flow of the overlying ice, perhaps increasing the rate of ice - mass loss in West Antarctica.

The glacier is currently experiencing significant acceleration, thinning and retreat that is thought to be caused by «ocean - driven» melting; an increase in warm ocean water finding its way under the ice shelf.

That's important — changing sea ice, changing lake ice, changing snow cover, increasing shrubs — but I wanted the book to enrich that picture, by describing those changes through the human lives that experience them.

In high cirrus clouds, which consist purely of ice crystals, the researchers, however, came across a surprisingly strong reaction to laser irradiation: As described in PNAS, the laser pulses increase the number of ice particles by up to a factor of 100 within only a few seconds.

Data collected by ship and model simulations suggest that increased Pacific Winter Water (PWW), driven by circulation patterns and retreating sea ice in the summer season, is primarily responsible for this OA expansion, according to Di Qi, the paper's lead author and a doctoral student of Liqi Chen, the lead PI in China.

«By refining the spatial pattern of mass loss in the world's second largest — and most unstable — ice sheet, and learning how that pattern has evolved, we are steadily increasing our understanding of ice loss processes, which will lead to better - informed projections of sea level rise.»

If he is correct, Lunar Prospector's estimate of water ice would have to be increased by a factor of up to four, to the range of 44 million to 1.3 billion tons.

«This does not necessarily mean that a similar response would happen in the future with increasing CO2 levels, since the boundary conditions are different from the ice age,» added by Professor Gerrit Lohmann, leader of the Paleoclimate Dynamics group at the Alfred Wegener Institute.

They are linked by rivers that form when melting ice expands the lakes, increasing pressure under the ice cap and causing underground channels of water and mud to squirt out.

Arctic sea ice melt fueled by ever - rising global temperatures is also opening the already fragile region to increased shipping traffic and may be affecting weather patterns over Europe, Asia and North America.

Mouginot et al. report that between 2002 and 2014, the area covered by the glacier's ice shelf shrank by 95 %; since 1999, the glacier's flow rate has nearly doubled; and its acceleration increased threefold in the fall of 2012.

Contrary to what you might expect, the third IPPC report predicted that global warming would most likely lead to a thickening of the ice sheet over the next century, with increased snowfall compensating for any melting cause by warming.

• One is that the cold air above the Laurentide Ice Sheet created a tremendous high pressure system that shifted the polar jet stream to the south, pushing the track followed by winter storms down into the Southwest, which had the effect of dramatically reducing the amount of rainfall in the Northwest while increasing it in the Southwest.

By 1900, increased emissions of soot could have triggered the loss of more than 15 m of ice from a glacier's surface; by 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contenBy 1900, increased emissions of soot could have triggered the loss of more than 15 m of ice from a glacier's surface; by 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contenby 1930, the loss could have totaled 30 m or more — magnitudes and timing that can easily account for the Alpine glacial retreat, the scientists contend.

Fossil fuel burning, deforestation and farming have increased temperatures by nearly 2 °F during the past two centuries and caused ice to melt into the seas, causing them to rise at a quickening pace.

The basin is also characterized by increased vertical mixing and less sea ice.

Respiration by bacteria may have slightly increased levels of CO2 in pockets of air trapped within polar ice caps meaning that before human activity CO2 levels may have been even lower than previously thought.»

Thinner sea ice is getting pushed farther by Arctic winds, which makes polar bears walk more to stay in the same place, increasing their need for food.