Sentences with phrase «ice than at any time»

Meanwhile, 6,000 kilometers to the north, the Arctic has less sea ice than at any time in the 37 years that satellites have been measuring ice coverage.

In a September 18 House Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing (a hearing dubbed by Organizing for Action as «DenierPalooza»), Congressman Ed Whitfield (R - KY) stated, «I recently read an article that stated that the Arctic ice had nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at this time of year,» and Congressman David McKinley (R - WV) asserted that «Arctic ice has actually grown 60 percent.»

Not exact matches

Making Things Easier Working quickly enough to keep everything ice cold while walking back and forth to the refrigerator can be a challenge, which is why preparing your pie crust on a refrigerated worktop with built in refrigerated storage is so much easier, especially when making more than one crust at a time.

We've been sleeping more than usual (I actually went to bed with Matthew at 7 pm earlier this week, waking only long enough to scarf down a tiny bowl of pasta for dinner before drifting off to la - la - land again), eating our collective weight in local ice cream, and touring small, nearby towns in the afternoons before heading back to the cottage for happy hour snack time.

It is easier to add than to take away, so start by adding 1/2 tsp at a time to the thicker mixture until you get an icing that when it falls back on itself, leaves a trail but eventually levels out.

«I was more scared of an ice bath than I was the first time I went into the chamber,» said Lafferty, who had plenty of icing experience as a pitcher and quarterback at Vacaville High and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Saw a great hack in family fun for ice cream at parties: scoop out single scoops in cupcake liners and leave in freezer until party time, that way you don't have to deal with the mess of ice cream during the party, and it's a bit cheaper than dixie cups (which in our area aren't really great quality as it is).

Small ice chips (less than 1/4 inch) are also safe for baby to enjoy one at a time because they melt quickly.

Because the martian air pressure is very low — 100 times lower than at sea level on Earth — ice on Mars does not melt and become liquid when it warms up.

At the time, it was an inert chunk of ice, dust and frozen gases, floating nearly motionless in the outermost region of the solar system, a thousand times more distant than Pluto.

Record of melt from two west Greenland ice cores showing that modern melt rates (red) are higher than at any time in the record since at least 1550 CE (black).

The team found that species of foraminifera living on the sea floor around the time of the ice age contained more carbon than those that floated at the surface (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1188605).

The ice cores showed the glaciers on Mt. Hunter are melting more now than at any time in the past 400 years.

The wine industry in England, for example, is bigger now than at any time since the onset of the little ice age around the 14th century, when vineyards dating back to the Roman era were abandoned.

This past September the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 19ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 1979.

«If there were a link, it would be more likely to occur in fall [when the Arctic sea ice is at a low and the region is warm] than it would in January [when the Arctic is ice - covered and cold], so from that point of view, it's not a compelling candidate at this time of year,» Hoerling said.

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.

A new Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego - led study measured a melt rate that is 25 times higher than expected on one part of the Ross Ice Shelf.

But not much was made of all this; scientists at the time were less interested in water than in the ice thickness.

About 1.2 million years ago, the sedimentation rate accelerated — the same time that Earth's ice ages began to occur more intensely at 100,000 - year intervals rather than in 40,000 - year cycles.

That blind spot comes at a time when ice sheets in West Antarctica and Greenland are changing more quickly than anyone expected.

It can house more than 100 people above ground at a time, while fuel and cargo storage, waste - management facilities, maintenance garages and a power plant are all located beneath the surface of the ice sheet.

If the East Antarctic ice sheet, which is 10 times larger than the western ice sheet, melted completely, it would cause sea levels worldwide to rise almost 200 feet, according to Kathy Licht, an associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Science at IUPUI.

But that could soon change, Rignot said, because the rate at which ice sheets are losing mass is increasing three times faster than the rate of ice loss from mountain glaciers and ice caps.

«Conversely, there is more and better evidence across Iceland that when the ice sheet underwent major reduction at the end of the last glacial period, there was a large increase in both the frequency and volume of basalt erupted — with some estimates being 30 times higher than the present day.

His «we do not know of a time with permanent ice at the poles and CO2 above 1000pmmv» (except, of course, prior to the big thaw in snowball Earth), and the present rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 being c. 10x greater than previous mass extinctions as far as we know (albeit the total mass being less) are deeply worrying.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

Right now, the ice sheet's surface has about 1.2 times the amount of mass than normal; at the same point in 2012, it had 1.2 times less than normal, Box said.

That said, I'm a big fan of Halo Top ice cream and recently hosted a fun tasting event with fellow health coaches at my place — way more fun than talking about vegetables this time of year!

Wrap an ice pack (or a bag of frozen peas) in a thin towel and put on your neck for not more than 15 minutes at a time.

Just don't overdo it — you don't need to ice any body parts for more than 15 minutes at a time.

My favorite trick is to keep a fresh brain on ice in a beer cooler not farther than 2.75 meters away from me at all times.

Indigenous people have inhabited the land we now call Australia for at least 50,000 years... The Pilbara region's Burrup Peninsula is the site of more than a million petroglyphs, dating back in time to the last Ice Age.

Carbon dioxide levels, for example, are at an all - time high of more than 400 parts per million — more than double the amount during the ice ages.

Three independent movies from this year deserve a special mention... Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, the socio - political history of a gold rush town, illustrated with film stock recovered from beneath an abandoned ice rink... Oxide Ghosts, director Michael Cumming's assemblage of VHS outtakes from the influential, more relevant than ever TV news satire Brass Eye... and Dispossession, a restrained documentary about the housing crisis that's provoked fiercely energetic audience discussions up and down the land, culminating in a panel discussion at Curzon Chelsea with director Paul Sng, author Anna Minton and Jeremy Corbyn MP.

And until then, the film is so remarkable at synching its picturesque style to Moonee's seemingly limitless freedom that the one time they do fall out of sync feels jarring, almost offensive: In long shot, Moonee and her friends charge past a series of stores and toward the promise of ice cream, and even after the children have exited the frame, the camera lingers on the sight of an obese person on a scooter riding in the other direction, the sound of the scooter going over a speed bump nothing more than a punchline, an easy potshot, at the expense of a person who isn't even a bystander to Moonee's life.

The 612 is clearly the best car for today's drive — comfortable, supportive seats, plenty of room, ice - cold air - conditioning (the equal of any American car and about five times better than any Ferrari of a decade ago), and easy cruising at 120 mph.

In fact, during my week of driving the SUV, it spend 90 percent of the time dealing with several inches of snow, ice and, at times, challenging weather conditions with wind gusts of more than 30 MPH.

The company has a reputation for keeping devices up - to - date for much longer than many of its rivals (we're looking at you, HTC) and the Galaxy S3 has gone from Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich all the way up to 4.3 Jelly Bean over quite a long period of time — on Android, pretty much the only manufacturer which outperforms here is Google itself on the Nexus line.

At that time, more than four months after Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich had launched, the new Google OS was only found on 1 % of Android devices.

For me a video game can not get anymore epic than this, sure it is going to be very sad to see Bungie leave the Halo scene, but at the same time this is going to be the game to put the icing on the proverbial cake, the finisher to end all finishers and indeed probably the best Halo game ever to be created.

The real jewel in the crown in Obliteracers is it's multiplayer, it is definitely geared more to be a party game than a racing game with the full pack of racers being followed at one time, this gives it an arena feel rather than an actual straight up racing game, you still have to try and lead the pack (at times) although that's only to knock other racers out as the main aim is to destroy your enemy, within multiplayer you can customize your game to suit your preferences from turning certain or all weapons off, reversed controls, ice skating which is an extremely slippery track speed boosts etc etc, i'd liked to have listed them all in this review but with so many you'll have to take a look yourself.

The figure is deliberately shown looking down into the reflection; this is to suggest inward thought, rather than some sort of contemplation of the scene» — P. Doig «[Doig's] own brother is the figure in Blotter... dressed in the winter jacket fashionable at the time, dawdling on an ice - covered pond.

They need to prove that what they are doing (in terms of the re-release of as much CO2 as was sequestered in the last 3 million years in the last 150, at rates 50 times faster than we see in any of the Ice records) is safe.

... Polar amplification explains in part why Greenland Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be highly sensitive to relatively small increases in CO2 concentration and global mean temperature... Polar amplification occurs if the magnitude of zonally averaged surface temperature change at high latitudes exceeds the globally averaged temperature change, in response to climate forcings and on time scales greater than the annual cycle.

There are some painful, and even dire, concerns expressed about the potential that Greenland ice sheets could be «entirely lost» if emissions continue at a business - as - usual pace; about the rate of sea - level rise increasing «faster and faster with time»; and about the planet's ice sheets likely becoming «more active» over coming decades than they have been over recent decades.

He notes that the sat photos show that cloud cover remains low and that the ice is very mobile at a time when the pack should be most firm (not really a surprise since ocean temps are much more important than air temps, and apparently it's the ocean temps that have been the largest factor in the recent sharp sea ice reduction).

[Response: Possibly he means rapidly as in «more rapid than at any time over the ice core records»?

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.

We keep seeing the same graph showing current ice cover is at least up to now, June 2008 no worse than this time last year.