Using your voice you can literally command your bath to fill to a certain
level at a certain temperature.
Not exact matches
The Open's guidelines allow the tournament referee to halt play
at outdoor venues and close the roofs of the main arena when the Wet Bulb Globe
Temperature — a composite figure that accounts for factors such as humidity and wind speed — reaches a
certain level.
For instance, copepods, which are tiny crustaceans, tend to gather and feed
at certain levels of salinity and
temperature.
Some fish eggs, for instance, hatch only
at certain light or
temperature levels, while fungal infections can prompt lizard eggs to crack open early.
Now, this is why you are not thinking — let's assume that
at any particular
level of regional
temperature, we can expect a
certain loss rate — this is reasonable because, as you say, there is a lot of ice in Greenland.
Temperature change was not really clear until the late 80s, and some I knew and respected
at the time argued it wasn't really
certain that change was above natural variation even then (they did not agree with Hansen — we sometimes forget the
level of unertainty
at the time).
Applying a little logic it must be the case that
at a
certain level of TSI the global
temperature budget will be balanced i.e. neither warming nor cooling.
The confidence
level was
at 95 % of 97 % of allegedly all scientists that
certain temperatures would occur by a date which has already passed.
Oh, and according to the ice core data,
at a
certain level CO2 reaches saturation and becomes a negative or neutral feedback evidenced by falling
temperature / rising CO2.
With the atmosphere maintaining the warmest
level of
temperatures on record, that acts like a valve set
at a
certain point and the flow out is clearly constrained
at less than the flow in and so the oceans warm.
Increasing the GHG content could, under
certain circumstances, increase the radiating efficiency of the atmosphere, particularly
at upper
levels, lowering the average
temperature, like painting a hot stove black.
A basic example would be sea
level, it takes time to melt ice
at a
certain temperature, so therefore any measurement of palaeo - sea
level would be offset from the period of warmth with which it is related, as the ice that would melt from such warmth would take a
certain period of time to then effect the sea
level (and then effect other proxies such as corals, and so on).
But... you make a good point in noting that the earth doesn't really look like some sort of blackbody object emitting
at a
certain temperature, corresponding to a
certain level of the atmosphere.
I can only list a few regular «goings on'that I KNOW affect sea
level; I'm
certain that there are others: Change in overall
temperature of the oceans (a few millidegrees / mm), plate tectonics, slit from rivers, erosion of seashores, extraction of ground water which ultimately returns to the oceans, marine life and its products building up the ocean floors, melting land ice, undersea discharges of a variety of «stuff» from literally hundreds of thousands of sources, often
at temperatures in the 1 - 2 thousand degree range, which we are only now beginning to notice, wind carrying dust from the land and dropping it on the ocean.
Rosanne D'Arrigo, senior research scientist
at the Tree Ring Lab
at Columbia University «s Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, hypothesises that «beyond a
certain threshold
level of
temperature the trees may become more stressed physiologically, especially if moisture availability does not increase
at the same time.»
That could be, say, automatically turning on the kitchen lights
at sunset, or starting up a fan when the
temperature in your town gets to a
certain level.