Sentences with phrase «ice this year taken»

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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant day when his father took him to discover ice.

WUHAN, China, April 28 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take an hour - long boat ride with his host Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, the final day of an ice - breaking trip both are hoping will lead to better ties after a year of strains.

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

The WMO said that direct measurements from the past 800,000 years had been taken using both Antarctic ice cores and «modern instruments.»

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It took him two more years to raise enough money to try even that expedition again only for a cracked fuel bottle to contaminate all his food after a fall from an ice ridge.

It doesn't take hundreds of thousands of years to get an ice layer.

Not only that but they are also on a moving glassier and the ice cores used for dating well they are taken from the interior of the ice sheet where the ice is quite stable and they don't get anywhere near 2 meters of snow per year.

When we arrived at the ice rink, my 12 year old daughter took off and pirouetted away as she is an experienced ice skater.

I took some time off from this ice cream because I always loved it so much made with coconut milk, and about a year ago I discovered that I'm allergic to coconut.

The funny thing is that at certain points in the year, he'll crave donuts or ice cream for a week and I'll come home to a half eaten box of Krispy Kreme on the counter and pints of Häagen - Dazs taking up precious space in the freezer.

A few years ago I took my brother to this ice cream shop in Anaheim, CA that served these pre-made ice cream bars that you could custom dip in whatever type of chocolate you wanted.

I think in my kitchen I have about two or three small appliances that I absolutely can not do without, a small electric hand mixer that was actually a wedding gift and still works like a charm, a food processor that I had sitting on my counter top for a couple of years just taking up space, until I decided to give the thing a try and I haven't looked back and last, but not least, my ice cream maker.

47 years on from the «Ice Bowl», the Packers again have home advantage and the elements in their favour, but the Cowboys are confident that they have what it takes to claim a road win.

Fabregas took the icing on the cake this year.

It's chilly near the start of the Run - de-Vous, one of the hundreds of ultrarunning races that take place every year, but seven volunteers are working like the dwarves pounding packs of ice on the pavement and shuffling the broken cubes and sponges into buckets of water.

no wonder wenger has gotten away with his dozen years of failure when fans deliver this kind of ludicrous assessment... get of the wenger juice and get yourself cleaned up... anyway this was a tale of two very different halves so average score is basically like saying the guy who took a bath in ice water and then in scolding water had a good time as on average he was in warm water!!!

When I was about 10 years old, my fourth - grade class took a wintertime field trip to an ice rink.

A few years ago, players in the Central Missouri Eagles Youth Ice Hockey program which I help coach spent the afternoon with sick, injured and disabled patients at a local children's hospital who must clear substantial hurdles before they can play the sports so many families simply take for granted.

It takes years to build an ice rink, though,» said Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for USA Hockey, whose nationwide membership of players, coaches and officials has more than doubled to 464,713 in the last seven years.

In comparison, it took the Jakobshavn Isbræ ice stream — a southwest Greenland region with a fast - moving glacier that has been a focal point of scientific examination of ice sheet melt — 150 years to retreat 35 kilometers, said Khan.

If the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica lose enough ice to raise sea level a metre or more, though, it would take thousands of years for snowfall to build up the ice sheets again.

«It won't take many more years like that to completely melt the ice fields,» Thompson said here on 18 February at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW.

The Arctic took another 3,000 - 4,000 years to warm this much, primarily because of the fact that the Northern Hemisphere had huge ice sheets to buffer warming, and the fact that changes in ocean currents and Earth's orbital configuration accelerated warming in the south.

Earth is thought to have shifted in and out of ice ages every 100,000 years or so during the past 800,000 years, but there is evidence that such a shift took place every 40,000 years prior to that time.

Buizert said reconstructing Earth's climate back to 1.5 million years is important because a shift in the frequency of ice ages took place in what is known as the Middle Pleistocene transition.

A longstanding hypothesis claimed that the first migration took place 12,600 years ago through an ice - free corridor between retreating North American glaciers, via the ice - age Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska.

It quickly became clear that this was an environment sealed away from the earth's surface, and although the water in the lake may itself be slowly changed out by the deep - ice dynamics of Antarctica, this process could take well over 10,000 years.

For instance, it was previously thought that it would take hundreds of years for the Greenland ice sheet to melt right the way through.

The research takes as its desired stable state the Holocene epoch, the 10,000 years since the last ice age during which human civilization has flourished, and attempts to identify the key variables that might push planetary cycles past safe thresholds.

The ice core data also shows that CO2 and methane levels have been remarkably stable in Antarctica — varying between 300 ppm and 180 ppm — over that entire period and that shifts in levels of these gases took at least 800 years, compared to the roughly 100 years in which humans have increased atmospheric CO2 levels to their present high.

It took 30 years for the men to drill a borehole to the bottom of the ice.

Using conventional drilling methods, it will take three summer seasons in the remote reaches of Antarctica to get to the million - year - old ice that the teams hope lies 3000 metres down.

Scientists have examined ice cores dating back some 800,000 years and have documented numerous times when increases in summer insolation took place, but not all of them resulted in deglaciation to present - day ice volumes.

Only when the Ice Age ended 12,000 to 13,000 years ago and mammoths and other large prey vanished, archaeologists theorized, did humans systematically take up seashore living — eating shellfish, devising fishing gear, and venturing offshore in small boats.

For example, our data provides evidence for today's European population being genetically descendant primarily from late mid-eastern migrations that took place after the last ice age, rather than from the first humans to arrive to the continent, more than 40,000 years ago.»

NSIDC scientists said there was a lot of thin ice at the beginning of the melt season, because thinner ice does not take as much energy to melt away, this may have also contributed to this year's low minimum extent.

«We have run the model over a simulated period of three million years, and taken into account measurements from ice cores and independent magnetic and seismic data,» says Petrunin.

But if the ice is stiffer than measured in the lab or it is mixed with other compounds, the process could take tens of thousands of years.

«This paper does confirm what we hypothesized, that knocking out the Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites takes down the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,» says Ian Joughin, a glaciologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, who co-authored last year's Science paper.

Now, a year and a half later, data from the auspicious encounter show that minke whales have staked out a unique ecological niche that no other baleen whale can take advantage of: hunting krill under sea ice.

During the last ice age, which took place from 70,000 to 19,000 years ago, the climate in the Northern Hemisphere toggled back and forth between warm and cold states roughly every 1000 to 6000 years.

Thousands of black - and - white aerial photographs of Greenland taken between 1978 and 1987 are helping scientists reconstruct a 110 - year - long record of ice loss in this region.

According to Thomas Krumpen, «It takes about two and a half years for the ice formed along the coast of the Laptev Sea to be carried across the Arctic Ocean and past the North Pole into the Fram Strait between the east cost of Greenland and Svalbard.»

Whenever the ice does start to disappear, the researchers estimate it will take another 90 years or so for surface melting to eat through the estimated 60 meters of ice that will cover the camp by then.

«With something like the Antarctic ice sheet, some of these processes take centuries, and the amount of time we've been able to observe changes is at the maximum 20 years,» Bingham said.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

«The Group is concerned that no action was taken on its findings last year regarding a Uranus mission study,» he would note in his study, urging NASA «to initiate such a study responsive to Decadal Survey science goals for the ice giants.»

Sea ice volume measurements, which take ice thickness into account, also hit a record low this year.

«The ice sheets in the north melted completely about 8,000 years ago and it will take 20,000 years for the crust to rebound.