Sentences with phrase «lower than some ice»

Ocean warming (the albedo of the water is lower than the ice on and Gulf Stream warm courant will be cooled no more in summer, without floating ice.

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(All ice cream brands do this, but less expensive and low - fat concoctions contain significantly more air than brands like Häagen - Dazs and Ben & Jerry's.)
The image showed that the amount of sea ice around the poles is dramatically lower than scientists would have predicted.
I love how bananas and low fat milk are used, so it's wayyy better for you than ice cream.
Gelato is lower in fat than traditional ice cream, there's no cream, only fresh ingredients.
Also there are only 2 Tablespoons of raw [low glycemic] coconut sugar in the icing, so that works out to less than a teaspoon per serving, but feel free to omit the icing!
I used fat free greek frozen yogurt which is lower in sugar, fat, and higher in protein than ice cream.
This ice cream is much lower in sugar than usual recipes or any shop bought ice cream.
Offering foodservice operators a low cost of ownership and superior performance even in the most challenging water conditions, Horizon Elite's design dramatically reduces scale build - up and the associated costs of scale mitigation, all while using 35 - 50 percent less water than comparable cube - type ice machines.
Homemade ice cream certainly can be much a healthier indulgence than highly sweetened and artificially flavored commercial ice cream, esp when made with much lower amounts of sugar, as well as milk and cream from pastured dairy herds and rich egg yolks from pastured hens.
These Paleo lemon cupcakes are lower in sugar than most cupcakes (especially if you leave the icing off, which is what we did for the little ones — does that make them muffins?)
The choice of fruit also matters - mango is sweeter and lower in water than other fruits, so the ice cream is less icy.
Marshmallow ice cream is lower in sugar, too, since marshmallows are lower in sugar than sweetened condensed milk.
Rather than decorating cookies, some organizers plan to use Christmas - tree cookie - cutters on wheat bread, iced with low - fat cream cheese and decorated with sliced veggies such as shredded carrots, mini-broccoli or cut up red peppers.
«After all, it's much more fun for the whole family to go out for real ice cream once a week than to keep low - fat ice cream in the freezer and eat it every night.»
The overall risk of injury in amateur boxing is actually lower than in some other collision sports such as football, rugby, and ice hockey
While the odds of flooding are lower than last week, when heavy rain fell and snow melted in 60 degree temperatures, the potential for ice jam flooding remains elevated.
With so much ice on land, sea level was 120 metres lower than it is today.
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.
Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.
In this study, the research team excavated intertidal beach sediments on the shoreline of Calvert Island, British Columbia, where the sea level was two to three meters lower than it is today at the end of the last ice age.
Its low density implies that it is about 80 per cent ice to only 20 per cent rock, a far lighter mixture than other large moons of...
When the temperature beneath a layer of snow crystals is significantly higher than the temperature above, ice from crystals lower in the snowpack sublimes — that is, vaporizes directly without melting — and then refreezes onto overlying crystals.
While climate models also simulate the observed linear relationship between sea ice area and CO2 emissions, they usually have a much lower sensitivity of the ice cover than has been observed.
Researchers lowered a video camera through more than 2,600 feet of ice to capture underwater images of Lake Whillans.
And to put that in context during the last ice age, we were at a 180, so we were 100 ppm lower than in the preindustrial state.
Making ice at night is easier than doing so during the day, because the temperature of the outdoor air, to which the compressor must release the heat, is generally lower than it is earlier in the day.
«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.
Rather, models suggest that less than half of Amalthea's volume consists of chunks of low - density, carbon - rich rocks and ice, while the rest is empty space.
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During a record melting jag this past summer, the Greenland ice sheet lost 552 billion tons (19 billion tons lower than the previous low), and the volume of sea ice fell to half the volume it had four years ago.
However, the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere — roughly 290 ppm (parts per million)-- was ca. 110 ppm lower than the current level, as ice core data from the Antarctic shows.
Because saltwater freezes at a lower temperature than pure water adding the salt makes some ice melt and absorb heat in the process.
If all the ice in Greenland were to melt in coming decades (an unlikely scenario), it would raise sea levels by seven meters (more than 20 feet)-- enough to swamp New Orleans, Florida's coast, Bangladesh and the Netherlands, among other low - lying lands.
At its minimum on September 16, the ice covered an area about the size of India; that is 18 percent smaller than the previous record low, set in 2007.
* The late - summer polar ice cap, already at historic lows today, would shrink only another quarter and hold steady by century's end, instead of melting by more than three - quarters with no let - up in sight.
In 2012, the year in which Arctic sea ice hit a record low, 69 percent of the tracked adult females in the Beaufort Sea swam more than 31 miles (50 kilometers) at least once.
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.»
Because so much water was stored on land as ice sheets, sea levels were likely 120 meters lower than today, exposing the bottom of what is now the English Channel.
Some of the shallow - water seeps are likely to be in now - submerged areas that were methane - producing wetlands during the most recent ice age, when sea levels were more than 100 metres lower than they are today.
The land bridge forms during ice ages, when much of the water on the planet becomes part of growing continental glaciers, making the sea level much lower than it is today,» explained Shapiro.
The dark zones look lower than the light - coloured ridges, perhaps because they absorbed more sunlight, causing ices below them to evaporate and the dark layer to sink down.
«Because ice is lower density than water, you get less gravity when you have a big chunk of ice there than when you have water,» Nimmo explained.
«While this is lower than previous estimates, it confirms that ice is being lost from around the globe, with just a few areas in precarious balance.
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the lower latitudes, and scientists report sea ice across the Nares Strait just collapsed two months earlier than normal.
The 11 - hour round - trip from Punta Arenas included a series of low - level passes over the massive ice stream which is 20 miles wide and in places more than one mile thick.
These significant depths suggest that Ceres» subsurface is no more than 40 percent ice by volume, and the rest may be a mixture of rock and low - density materials such as salts or chemical compounds called clathrates.
Under Hamilton's scenario, the ice cap may have been heavy enough to sink a few miles or kilometers into Pluto's crust, which could explain why Sputnik Planitia is lower than the surrounding terrain.
It seems about 500 ppm CO2 could eventually mean an ice free planet, much lower than the circa 1000 ppm that ice sheet models seem to estimate.
Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and there have been previous periods that appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now.
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