Sentences with phrase «ice slides into»

If that hump flattens and the ice slides into the ocean, our sea level rise is now realized and reflected by the new distribution.

They are derived from the idea that if the ice buttress for one of these big basins in East Antarctica were to go, you might get lots of ice sliding into the ocean very quickly, then sea level stabilizing after that most unbalanced ice is released.

Not exact matches

The first one i iced too soon and all the layers slid into a hot mess, but a delicious hot mess.

When your bread has doubled for the second time, remove the towel and quickly and simultaneously, slide the sheet tray with the baguettes onto the middle rack while carefully throwing the ice cubes into the bowl on the bottom rack.

The Maggie Beer Products operations make a range of ice - creams, pate, quince pastes, and sauces and also suffered a painful slide into the red in the previous full financial year, posting an annual loss of $ 2.13 million for the 12 months ended June 30, 2017.

Add a blob of icing into the center and lay your first cake layer ontop of that to keep your cake from sliding off the cardboard.

It's easy to slide an ice pop into holder and allows you to push the ice pop up while eating too.

Half the ice was lost through melting and half through glaciers sliding faster into the oceans, the team says.

If you decouple that ice from where it's grounded — something that currents of warming water, already circulating around the Antarctic coast, could do — then water could flow beneath the inland ice and lubricate its slide into the ocean.

As a result of such breakups, more than 150 cubic kilometers of glacial ice has slid off land into the ocean.

The Ross Ice Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sIce Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice sheets from sliding into the sea.

Warm ocean waters, driven inland by winds, are undercutting an ice shelf that holds back a vast glacier from sliding into the ocean, researchers report November 1 in Science Advances.

When parts of the ice melt, liquid water trickles to the base and this can lubricate the underside of the ice sheet, allowing it to slide more quickly into the sea and drive up sea levels at a faster rate.

The slipperiness helps determine how quickly the ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

They observed three types of ice losses, each with a distinctive and detailed sound signature: the splash of an ice block falling off into the water; the crack of a fragment sliding down the glacier's rough surface; and the soft thud of an underwater ice chunk breaking away and floating up, followed by a secondary impact as it surfaces.

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

The study, published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, uses computer modeling to show that subduction — when a tectonic plate slides underneath another and sinks deep into a planet's interior — is physically possible in Europa's ice shell.

It's the same idea with ice — when it isn't frozen, it's more likely to slide into the ocean.

As a result, the ice shelf is likely to both thin and flow faster, the researchers note — and eventually, that could allow the glacier to slide into the sea.

MELT ZONE The Totten ice shelf (shown here) holds back a massive glacier, which drains a France - sized portion of East Antarctica and could raise sea levels by at least 3.5 meters if it slides into the sea.

The long - term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of meters, has been called into question with the discovery of fast - moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base.

There's also plenty they don't know yet — how global warming might affect tornadoes, for example, or how quickly the massive ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica could slide into the oceans.

Scientists say the moving ice overhead pulverizes the rock it is sliding along, which releases minerals into the water.

Radar flown by plane and dragged by snowmobile, as well as satellite measurements show how the ice cap is potentially turning into a Slip «N Slide for meltwater to rush to the Atlantic.

That in turn means all the land ice will have nothing to stop it from sliding into the ocean and raising sea levels more than 10 feet.

► A penguin slams into a cooler (the penguin is unharmed), the man pushing the cooler dumps the contents (ice and water) on the ground, six penguins slide down a multi-story ramp, and as they slide men women leap to get out of the way, a man almost leaps over the side of the ramp but is caught by a woman, a man is hit in the leg by a penguin and people generally leap to get out of the way moments before the penguins hit them; the penguins slide off a statue and through the air, crashing into an orchestra pit (the penguins are unharmed) ► On multiple occasions we see a penguin biting people, including biting a man's foot and snapping at a man's hand.

And as a comedy, there's a nearly naked man sliding a good 20 feet on black ice into a snow bank (oh... my... GOD... that would hurt), a concussed young player deliriously talking about his lack of sexual prowess, and a virtual remake of Doug Dorsey from The Cutting Edge in the form of Skank.

Rather than beating the group into submission with a content - heavy introduction, followed by a dozen sedating slides outlining all that needs to be covered, use an ice - breaker activity to get the buy - in and trust you need.

Aside from the ease of swapping sets, a dedicated winter wheel keeps your summer rims free from dings, pitting, and rash incurred from crunching through ice, sliding into curbs, and crashing through potholes.

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A new trailer shows the Lin Kuei clansman doing a rather cold number on the Dark Knight, laying down ice for a slide move to get in close, using an ice blast to freeze the Bat in his tracks, and materializing an ice hammer to smash the frozen crusader into a far wall.

General steering controls fall into one of two extremes: you're either sliding all over the place, akin to your car skating on ice or wrestling with a virtual steering wheel that seems overly stiff.

Maybe this will put to rest the scenario of melting glaciers sliding into the sea and inundating Bangladesh, but I guess there's still the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to fantasize about.

How valid is the assumption that if the CO2 - induced radiative forcing is artificially kept constant, the climate would not slide into an ice - ball anyway?

Little winter snow in the Alpine ski resorts, continuing droughts in Africa, mountain glaciers melting faster than at any time in the past 5,000 years, disappearing Arctic sea ice, Greenland's ice sheet sliding into the sea.

So now I answer the «ice - age» denialist argument (denialists usually trot out ALL their inconsistent & contradictory arguments) this way: I draw a sine - wave in the air with my hand, saying, yes, that the normal fluctuation over a long geological timeframe is to alternate between cold ice ages and warm interglacial periods, and that now we are right here in a warm interglacial period (my hand raised at the top of the wave), and if there were no human GHGs, then we would expect that over a long time frame we'd be sliding down into an ice age.

In 2003, I wrote an article exploring when scientists think we'll slide into the next ice age (the conventional variety).

Glaciers are sliding faster into the ocean because ice shelves are thinning due to warming oceans.

Huge chunks of ice weighing several billion tons each were breaking off and sliding into the sea, causing minor earthquakes as they did so.

But if Dr. «tipping point» Hansen is correct in his reading of the entrails, our profligate CO2 production might delay or halt the slide into the next ice age.

In Missouri on Monday, a 1 - year - old boy was killed when the car he was riding in struck a snow plow, and a 20 - year - old woman was killed in a separate crash after her car slid on ice and into the path of a tractor - trailer.

Generally speaking things look bad, what with the West Antarctic ice sheet slip - sliding away into the tropics, the Greenland glaciers retreating, animals beating a retreat to the coolth of higher altitudes and latitudes, and a host of other apocalyptic signals.

There's also plenty they don't know yet — how global warming might affect tornadoes, for example, or how quickly the massive ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica could slide into the oceans.

When the ice is brought to the surface, it is cut into one - meter sections, slid into plastic sleeves and packed in cardboard tubes.

But deep water production by convection may be less, depending on how much NADW is Arctic in origin and how much is simply recirculated Antarctic bottom water (extremely dense water, formed as brine under the sea ice around polynas offshore of Antarctica and sliding down the continental shelf into the depths without much mixing, creates a giant pool of dense water extending all the way up the bottom of the Atlantic to about 60 ° N).

Greenland's ice sheets slid into the sea 400,000 years ago, when Earth was only a little warmer than it is today.

Following up on # 67, couldn't it be argued that it's only the AGW which is keeping us from sliding into a possibly overdue ice age; or at least another little - ice age.

The inconclusive results stem from uncertainties in the model about how quickly the ice will slide over land and into the ocean, Payne says.

I think when great huge chunks of ice start sliding off the Greenland plateau into the sea and nations start to realise that all the Greenland ice will be gone by 2070 and the sea level will rise by 7 metres by the same date then they will realise this problem can't be tackled by playing economic games with cap and trade.

You write «Just a few more decades of ocean warming would be enough to destabilise the relatively small region of ice by the Amundsen Sea − starting a cascade of slipping and sliding that would tip enough ice into the ocean to raise sea levels by three metres.»