Sentences with phrase «millions of degrees when»

The corona generally ranges from 900,000 F (500,000 C) to 10.8 million F (6 million C) and can even reach tens of millions of degrees when a solar flare occurs.

Not exact matches

When the U.S. Census Bureau estimated lifetime earnings for people with various levels of education, it found that people with a master's degree brought home $ 2.5 million from the age of 24 to the age of 64.

A tight group of Adelaide investors who backed silicon battery pioneer 1414 Degrees through a decade of hard slog will see their stakes valued at $ 16.5 million when the company floats on the ASX.

It has been hot here, but every time I think that it's too hot to go outside I stop and reflect on how I will feel 6 months from now when it is ten million degrees below zero and nine feet of snow.

But it gives me the excuse of not going outside to water when it's a million degrees outside.

Fusion energy occurs when light atomic nuclei are combined using high pressure and extremely high temperatures of about 150 million degrees Celsius.

Under laboratory conditions it is the two hydrogen isotopes — deuterium and tritium — that fuse most readily when held as a plasma at temperatures of several hundred million degrees.

When they put the millions of numbers they gathered together with several million more that already existed, they discovered that the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans combined warmed an average of 0.06 degree Celsius between 1955 and 1995.

Scientists believe that the different pattern of deep ocean circulation was responsible for the elevated temperatures 3 million years ago when the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was arguably what it is now and the temperature was 4 degree Fahrenheit higher.

Eventually, when it reached a temperature of around 1 million degrees, its core ignited, causing it to begin nuclear fusion.

When the temperature reaches about four million degrees Fahrenheit, nuclear fusion begins, tremendous amounts of energy are produced, and the star begins to shine.

That optimization is critical when diagnostics will be in the unforgiving ITER reactor environment, with plasma temperatures of over 100 million degrees C. «For all of the equatorial ports, the environment is extremely harsh.

When it's a million degrees outside, my chances of being a hot mess multiply.

Even when a recent graduate has trouble landing a good job right after collecting his degrees, he can expect to earn as much as a million dollars more over the course of his career than someone whose education ended with a high school diploma.

LOL, I remember when Gore said the earth was millions of degrees «just below the surface»!

The fossilized remains of the Babibasiliscus alxi, a Jesus lizard that lived around 48 million years ago, could provide the answer to understanding the environmental conditions that existed in southwestern Wyoming back when it was still around 10 degrees warmer.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

And why is it AGW proponents think the Earth should stay at the low Holocene temps when average temperatures over the last 600 million years have been 17 degrees C instead of the 9.7 degrees C we're currently at.

The most notorious was 252 million years ago; it began when carbon warmed the planet by five degrees, accelerated when that warming triggered the release of methane in the Arctic, and ended with 97 percent of all life on Earth dead.

The last time the earth experienced warming at anything like the pace we now expect was during the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum, about 55 million years ago, when temperatures rose by about 11 degrees Fahrenheit over the course of around 20,000 years (which is a much slower rate than the current pace of warming).

But that target may be too high to avoid dangerous climate change, Diffenbaugh said, noting that millions of Americans could see a sharp rise in the number of extreme temperature events before 2039, when the 2 - degree threshold is expected to be reached.

«Modern - day levels of carbon dioxide were last reached about 15 million years ago,» Tripati says, when sea levels were at least 25 meters higher and temperatures were at least 3 degrees C warmer on average.

«On my first day of college, in my first class, my professor told the class, «In four years, when you leave this institution, there will be millions of other job seekers with the same degrees vying for the same jobs.