Sentences with phrase «more ice melted»

This year, however, more ice melted than had ever melted since the pole has been under satellite observation.

There were periods when more ice melted during summer, and periods when less melted.

With more ice melting in this era of global warming, could we have an alien microbial invasion on our hands again?

That amount could increase as the climate warms and more ice melts, according to the study's authors.

As climate change warms Greenland and more ice melts and makes its way into the sea, the ice sheet is potentially becoming a more important source of nutrients, he said.

The shrinking sea ice drives a classic positive feedback loop: as more ice melts, fewer patches of white snow reflect solar energy, and larger regions of dark, sunlight - absorbing seawater open up — both causing the ice to melt even faster.

Continued warming in these regions will result in even more ice melt with the likelihood of catastrophic environmental consequences,» Yao noted.

Not a literal thaw — few climatologists want to see any more ice melt — but a warming of relations between climate scientists and those who vociferously deny the science of human - caused warming.

The more the ice melts, the more water surrounds and eats away at the remaining ice.

With no more ice melting to cool the water, will we see even higher levels of solar heating?

That water then absorbs solar energy and heats up, which leads to even more ice melt.

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, because as ice melts at the top of the world, there is less of it to reflect sunlight back into space, so more of it is absorbed by ocean waters; more absorbed sunlight means even warmer temperatures, which means more ice melt a circular process known as Arctic amplification.

The problem in the «slow» feedback analysis is that it seems a never - ending runaway: there are positive feedbacks (ice melting, carbon pump saturation); which imply less albedo, more CO2; which imply new positive feedbacks (more ice melting, more carbon pump saturation)... and so on.

When the ocean absorbs CO2 from the air, not only does that CO2 increase the temperature of the water, and cause more ice melt, but it also causes ocean acidification.

As a result, the more the ice melts — the faster it melts,» explained Kimberly Wiefling, business advisor to Ice911.

As a commenter has pointed out, the sun is low enough now in the Arctic sky that insolation is no longer much of a factor in how much more ice melts.

However, when more ice melts than is replaced, the glacier loses mass.

When we get a arctic season with great cyclones, those cyclones can lead to a break up of the ice (more lateral melting), If currents conspire we end up with more transport out of the arctic (ice then melts in the warmer water), and we get Eckmen pumping and more ice melts.

«So we've gotten into this vicious cycle [in which] the more ice we lose the more ice we melt and the warmer it gets in the Arctic — and so we're in the situation now where [the ice] really can't recover.»

But the Arctic sea ice has hit near - record minimums of sea ice since 2002, meaning the ocean is absorbing more sunlight, and heat, than it used to, leading to more ice melt.

The water heats up and more ice melts, the cause and effect feeding each other in a example of a phenomenon known as climate feedback.

As more and more ice melts, larger expanses of darker sea water are exposed.

With that comes more black carbon air pollution from ships — soot to you and me — and, that means already disproportionately high levels of warming will increase and with those, more ice melting.

That additional warming leads to more ice melting, which exposes more tundra, and so on.

The data certainly shows more ice melting.

The main cause is simply global warming: as the climate has warmed there has been less ice growth during the winter and more ice melt during the summer.

The main cause is simply global warming: as the climate has warmed there has been less ice growth during the winter and more ice melt during the summer... in the end the summer melt overtook the winter growth such that the entire ice sheet melts or breaks up during the summer months.

The more ice melts in the arctic, the more ocean surface is exposed to the sky.

Some heat up more than others, some places get drier, some wetter, more ice melts raising sea levels and changing coastlines.

Not exact matches

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

As the polar ice melts, getting to these resources becomes more feasible.

Impacts of thermal expansion and melting mountain glaciers can be predicted with moderate confidence, but more uncertainty remains in the potential behavior of polar ice sheets.

There are more, however, including the amount of sunlight an ice sheet is able to reflect; the larger an ice sheet, the more sunlight is reflected, but the smaller an ice sheet, the more ocean there is surrounding the ice sheet to absorb the sunlight which in turn heats up the surrounding waters increasing the melt which decreases the size of the ice sheet which in turn... and so goes the cycle.

Further, the less time an ice sheet has to create new layers of ice each winter, the less strong ice is created and built into centuries of previous strong sea ice, leaving ever more vulnerable and easy - to - melt sea ice.

You can make it without the gelatin but the ice cream will melt more quickly once you take it out of the freezer.

You could add more milk / cream and perhaps some melted unsweetened chocolate and blend it all together and give it another try... or mix it with vanilla ice cream in a blender (with espresso!)

If all the ice melts... add a little more ice!

A little more Coke goes into the creamy chocolate icing that's also made by melting chocolate chips.

To thin icing for filling in the cookies, add more water 1 T. at at a time (it should only take 1 or 2 T. more) until icing melts back into itself after a few seconds.

1 stick unsalted butter, melted, plus more for pan 1 cup granulated sugar 2 large eggs 1/2 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 cup all - purpose flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 2 pints ice cream, softened

The range includes baking essentials, fondants, icing, toppings, decorations, coloured melts and more!

You could experiment and find your own method, the ice creamwon't melt really quickly if it has been in the freezer for more than eight hours.

At the end of the day we'd call into the local Dairy (a corner store) and each choose a scoop of ice cream which, more often than not, ended up half melted down our hands before we'd even got back to the car.

1 1/3 cup all - purpose flour 1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup buttermilk 1 large egg 2 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled to lukewarm, plus more for cooking 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon pure mint extract (or pure peppermint extract) 3 to 4 drops green food coloring (optional) 3/4 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus more for garnish Whipped cream for serving Vanilla ice cream for serving Hot Fudge for serving

Because bitter chocolate has no sugar and no added fat (cocoa beans are about half fat), it is more stubborn to melt and may be slightly grainy in custard and ice cream recipes.

The more ice cream you've got, the more time it needs to freeze up properly so it won't melt into a puddly mess the second it comes out of the freezer.

Top with a drizzle of even more melted PB for the easiest - ever «icing.»

for the crust 8 tablespoons coconut oil — melted, plus more for greasing the tart pan 1/2 cup (90 g) brown rice flour 1/2 cup (65 g) garbanzo flour --(I make my own by grinding sprouted and dried garbanzo beans) 1/4 cup (30 g) tapioca flour 1 tablespoon almond flour 1 tablespoon coconut sugar 1/4 teaspoon sea salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 4 - 5 tablespoons ice water

1 cup baking soda 1/2 cup citric acid (buy online or most health food stores carry it) 2 tablespoons epsom salts 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted 1 teaspoon beet juice (I use the juice from canned beets) 4 drops grapefruit essential oil 1 teaspoon water (or more if necessary) Large ice cream scoop or bath bomb moulds for full circular shaped bath bombs

The Museum of Science & Industry opened Extreme Ice, an exhibit that displays photographic evidence of glacier melt (more than 90 percent of the world's glaciers are shrinking).