Sentences with phrase «melt off ice»

It must have absorbed / offset a lot of heat gain per century to melt off ice miles deep over the past 11,000 years.

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As a result, the coastal ice caps and glaciers lose their melting ice as run off 65 percent faster than they can recapture it — contributing to a loss of ice equivalent to roughly 14 percent of the total mass of Greenland.

I waited while the sisters dashed off, returning with kettles of steaming water, which they proceeded to pour on the pavement round the man to melt the ice that froze him to the ground.

Even worse than the time I didn't let a chocolate cake cool and all the icing melted off.

I'm going to make them this weekend but I was wondering if the coconut cream icing would melt off the cupcakes?

Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and whisk in the milk and melted butter until you achieve a consistency which is spreadable but which will not drip off the biscuits.

To top it off, I'll often serve this ice cream with a drizzle of melted stevia - sweetened chocolate.

Rosati's Ice is gone, seems as if it melted off the Toms River school lunch menu.

This was not a one - off event: bright snow is being replaced by dirty ice that absorbs more heat and melts faster (see Losing its sparkle).

MELT OFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glacieOFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glacieOff the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glaciers.

When ice pieces fall off landmasses, such as Antarctica or Greenland, and into the ocean, the ice melts even faster.

It can stay there if the temperature stays cool enough and enough snow falls to replace whatever ice melts off when the temperature gets above freezing.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.

Some large chunks of ice have broken off Antarctica's ice shelves in recent years, although most researchers don't foresee runaway melting there.

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting fromMelting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting frommelting from below.

Permafrost has thawed, causing houses to slide off suddenly muddy cliffs; sea ice has thinned, creating expanses of open water that rise up in ever higher storm surges; and glaciers are melting, leading local sea levels to climb (albeit very slightly).

«Coincidentally, when melting took off, the ice sheet began pulling back from the coast and the calving of icebergs diminished.

A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from belIce Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from belice sheet from below.

The layer of ice formed by refreezing water may help preserve the oldest ice, by lifting it off the bedrock and preventing it from being destroyed by melting.

A project off Greenland will tag whales with sensors to measure sea temperatures and ice melt in hard - to - reach places, improving predictions of sea - level rise

The underwater faces of the different glaciers retreated by between 0.7 and 3.9 metres each day, representing 20 times more ice than melts off the top of the glacier.

There also was an assumption that many melting glaciers on the ice sheet's periphery eventually would retreat to higher ground on this flat bedrock, cutting off contact with warm ocean waters and slowing down the ice sheet's shedding.

At its calving front, where the glacier effectively ends as it breaks off into icebergs, some of the ice melts while the rest is pushed out, floating into the ocean.

The prospect of the Arctic sea - ice melting completely; ice - sheets breaking off Antarctica; record temperatures — I'm a complete numbers geek.

There is evidence that Earth has gone through at least one globally frozen, «snowball» state in the last billion years, which it is thought to have exited after several million years because global ice - cover shut off the carbonate - silicate cycle, thereby allowing greenhouse gases to build up to sufficient concentration to melt the ice.

For example, ice loss in far - off West Antarctica will have more profound impacts in Scandinavia than it will in nearby Australia, while right now melting Alaskan glaciers contribute more to sea - level rise in the Baltic than the Greenland ice sheet.

The sea ice that caps the Arctic Ocean naturally waxes and wanes with the seasons, reaching its maximum area at the end of winter, before the reemergence of the sun in spring starts off the melt season.

You can put it directly on the lid and suck the water off with a turkey baster as the ice melts or you can put the ice in a ziplock bag so it is easy to pull off and replace.

Here's what they have done: Hanna, the woman from Hungary, melts milk chocolate and paints Harry's body with tantalizing tickles; She warms up some Manuka honey and drip it onto Harry's chest, then lick it off with her sensitive tongue; She dusts icing sugar on her nipples; She gives Harry a blow job under his desk at the office; Harry gives his Hungarian woman an orgasm by touching her sweet spot under the table of a restaurant; Hanna gives Harry a blow job while Harry is on the phone with a co-worker;

Also, if you don't use the front defrost, it will keep your windshield colder and mean that ice builds up less on the blades since snow hitting the windshield will bounce off rather than melting on contact.

However, the next morning the rear defroster struggled to melt off of the paper - thin layer of ice that have formed overnight.

In contrast, Jack Kennedy, licking at a fast - melting ice - cream cone, ticked off races he'd attended: eleven here, one in Hockenheim, U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen back in the day.

When I get into it after a cold night and turn on the defrost it melts all the ice and snow off!

We also found they were quite companionable during shoveling and sweeping the front stoop off; so much so that you really have to watch that they don't burn their feet on the salt you use for melting the snow and ice.

Ice - melting chemicals and salt can irritate and burn the pads of your pet's paws, so thoroughly wipe off your pet's paws upon returning inside.

If you use ice melts, hose down and wash off all traces of the ice melts when the weather improves to minimize further exposure to your pet.

Always rinse your dog's paws in warm water after a winter walk, as the chemicals used in ice melting products can be poison if your dog licks them off his feet.

Wash dog pads off thoroughly after a walk, perhaps using some warm water and a washcloth to melt any ice balls that may have formed on the bottom of their feet.

When walking... ice can build up between toes, so if you see your pet favoring a foot, stop and clean off the bottom, or hold the foot in your warm mitten to melt the ice.

Top off the evening with Chef Muromoto's Taste of Lahaina Best of Show dessert, Banana Caramel Eruption (warm fudge brownie with a melted chocolate center and topped with macadamia nut ice cream, flowing with bananas in a caramel sauce).

The hike through the valley leads you over rocks, streams, and rivers created by the runoff of snow and the melting of ice from both the Hooker Glacier and those glaciers hanging off Mount Sefton.

There have been plenty of times when my expectations soared higher than ever, just to be disappointingly dashed across the ground like a scoop of ice cream melting off the cone and hitting the pavement on a hot summer day.

What we are seeing now is a little incidental melt and ice bits falling off the edges.

I think this helps explain part of the reason predictions of Arctic sea ice melt were so far off and why there was / is so much focus on 2 ~ 3 feet of SLR this century, when the actual numbers could be much larger (according to Jim Hansen and others).

First off, the effect of melting sea ice would be close to nil, as it floats and displaces an equal amount (mass) of sea water.

With the melting of the polar ice caps, countries around the world are finding that new shipping lanes are now opening up, and with that, areas that were previously off limits to exploration and drilling are now accessible.

If the warmer water which Rob thinks might have reached the ice did melt even a small area you would have massive amounts of fog lifting off that area to form a cloud.

Re # 12: Perhaps the ice isn't all melting, which would throw off your calculation.

For example: 1) plants giving off net CO2 in hot conditions (r / t aborbing)-- see: http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=46488 2) plants dying out due to heat & drought & wild fires enhanced by GW (reducing or cutting short their uptake of CO2 & releasing CO2 in the process) 3) ocean methane clathrates melting, giving off methane 4) permafrost melting & giving off methane & CO2 5) ice & snow melting, uncovering dark surfaces that absorb more heat 6) the warming slowing the thermohaline ocean conveyor & its up - churning of nutrients — reducing marine plant life & that carbon sink.

Any existing ice this year will form the basis of the multi-year ice, yes — but the sea forms at the bottom, in contact with sea water, and melts at the top — so at the end of next summer, all of this year's ice could have melted off the top, leaving only the new ice beneath, possibly thinner than this year.