Sentences with phrase «much ice each year»

But the average rate of ice thinning in West Antarctica has also increased, and this sector is now losing almost one third (31 %) as much ice each year than it did during the five year period (2005 - 2010) prior to CryoSat - 2's launch.

Not exact matches

We do random acts of appreciation throughout the year, like taking the whole company out for ice cream midday or bringing in McFlurrys for everyone in the office... we have breakfast catered every Friday, rebirthdays (celebrations on the anniversaries of hire dates), all the ladies receive flowers on Valentine's Day, parents receive letters on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and so much more... plus, the whole company is going to Miami for an all - expenses - paid trip in a month (revenue and nonrevenue producers) for hitting a sales goal.»

We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change from more boring sources like global temperature averages, or the extent of global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in ice cores.

The overhead for the shoppe is probably next to nothing when you consider that everyone who works there is about 16 years old and the ice cream really doesn't cost that much.

Recent research has found evidence that comparable floods occurred much earlier in the Ice Age in the Columbia Basin, as much as 1 to 2 million years ago.

As for the cancer, 25 years and one month ago I ate a cherry ice cream cone at the same time your church prayed so that means my cone eating stopped the cancer as much as your prayer..

I took some time off from this ice cream because I always loved it so much made with coconut milk, and about a year ago I discovered that I'm allergic to coconut.

If the first few days of 2015 are any indication of how the year will progress the next 12 months are so far looking glittery and warm — filled with equal quantities of vegetables and ice cream, underscored by full on work and much needed play, but a bit hangry and punctuated by laughable (as in I'd laugh if I weren't so hangry) service.

As DeConna explains, much of the company's success over the years is due to the distribution methods used by the company to reach different markets of ice cream lovers across the Southeast.

Thanks so much for the recipe idea, I've loved lavender ice cream since I had it in south of France a few years ago and this is just as good if not better...

The fact that everyone on the bench saw this play, most everyone on the ice saw the play, or at least saw Staal crumpled to the ground is a testament to the lack of heart and gutlessness this team has displayed all year, and pretty much throughout the tenure of this playoff run.

Though no one said so directly, it was whispered in the Bruin organization that Esposito did not back - check, spent too much time on the ice, disagreed with Cherry's coaching philosophy and, in any case, was getting on in years.

«I try to make the right decisions on the ice, and I don't have much of a temper, so I let the young guys like Jamie Pushor, Anders Eriksson and Aaron Ward do my dirty work,» says the 27 - year - old Lidstrom jokingly.

wot he does nt realise after skimping for years and havin great success with cesc, song, deni, clichy, gibbs and all the lower end purchases is that if he were to spend 50m on 2/3 world class players we would still the lowest spenders in this category be a huge margin.i am not some1 who needs a signing for the sake of it so i can get excited about all things arsenal, we genuinely need a goalscorer and midfield enforcer, and not just cos songs away, as a backup incase he gets injured.im even willing to endure the hapless almunia if hed do this much ice i couldnt believe adebayour wearin the arsenal top, the chap is a few pence short of a pound

Don't miss Discover West Concord Day with cake and ice cream to celebrate 28 years of Debra's Natural Gourmet, plus face painting, live jazz, a Mini Pumpkin Flower Arrangement workshop, coloring and crafts, local artists, free fudge, popcorn, pies, cider, a wine tasting, and so much more (Concord)

That the study found concussion rates for ice hockey (10 per 100,000) and football (8 per 100,000) among younger athletes (7 - to 11 - year - olds) much higher than the overall concussion rate (1 per 100,000), were «not surprising» to lead author, Lisa L. Bakhos, M.D., a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey.

If we're in a similar or worse position in three years time, I don't think Conservative attempts to lay the blame on Gordon Brown will cut much ice.

This year, Summit's list of long - term visitors includes Brandon Strellis, an environmental engineering graduate student from the Georgia Institute of Technology studying how aerosols influence how much energy is reflected and absorbed by Greenland's ice — and where those particles are coming from.

It is much cheaper to test ice cores, which capture years of data in one core, than to do repeated air sampling over time.

«The crucial question is how much ice could be lost in the next 100 to 200 years, and Jonathan's work has not really changed that,» says David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey.

At that rate, much of the Wilkins ice shelf will be gone in a few years, says glaciologist Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Although the ice cover has increased over the past few years, the Arctic's sea ice is now much thinner than it was just a few years ago, making it more vulnerable to future warming.

By piecing together an 18 - year record of ice shelf thinning from three different sets of satellite data, the researchers found that some ice shelves in West Antarctica have lost as much as 18 % of their volume in the last 2 decades.

The Arctic took another 3,000 - 4,000 years to warm this much, primarily because of the fact that the Northern Hemisphere had huge ice sheets to buffer warming, and the fact that changes in ocean currents and Earth's orbital configuration accelerated warming in the south.

The prizes are not just the much - vaunted oil and gas reserves that lie beneath the Arctic but also access to the Northwest Passage, a shipping route between the West and Asia across the Arctic that year - round ice packs have long made impassable.

The only explanation to this phenomenon is that there was ice, which stored water, and that this ice age which lasted 80,000 years was sufficient to eliminate much of marine life.

Their results show that East Greenland has been actively scoured by glacial ice for much of the last 7.5 million years — and indicate that the ice sheet on this eastern flank of the island has not completely melted for long, if at all, in the past several million years.

The 30 or so bits of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller fragments, Rybczynski says.

One of the studies, led by University of Vermont geologist Paul Bierman, concludes that East Greenland — like the coastal scene shown in this image from near Tasiilaq — has been actively scoured by glacial ice for much of the last 7.5 million years.

(A separate group at the University of Texas published figures extrapolated from GRACE data showing that Greenland lost as much as 57 cubic miles of ice each year between 2002 and 2005; NASA shortly plans to publish data reconciling the two studies.)

Much of the dust deposit east of the Rockies arrived in the last ice age, which ended some 11,000 years ago, when particles that had been ground up and transported by glaciers were deposited by meltwater streams.

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.

Within a few hundred years sea levels in some places had risen by as much as 10 meters — more than if the ice sheet that still covers Greenland were to melt today.

To better understand and anticipate changes in sea level rise, scientists have sought to quantify how much snow falls on the ice sheet in any given year, and where, since snow is the primary source of the ice sheet's mass.

Roughly 20,000 years ago the great ice sheets that buried much of Asia, Europe and North America stopped their creeping advance.

They then used the satellite record of Arctic sea ice extent to calculate the rates of sea ice loss and then projected those rates into the future, to estimate how much more the sea ice cover may shrink in approximately three polar bear generations, or 35 years.

El Niño thus leaves its mark on the Quelccaya ice cap as a chemical signature (especially in oxygen isotopes) indicating sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean over much of the past 1,800 years.

Nearly 21,000 years ago, during what scientists call the Last Glacial Maximum, thick ice tracts swaddled much of North America and Europe.

In the mid-1990s, a lake containing 1,300 cubic miles of water (as much as Lake Michigan) was detected 12,000 feet below the surface of the ice in East Antarctica, beneath where the Russians had spent years drilling into the ice sheet to study its history.

«In recent years Arctic pack ice has formed progressively later, melted earlier, and lost much of its older and thicker multi-year component,» says Anthony Fischbach of the US Geological Survey (USGS) and one of the research team.

«We were expecting to find rocks exposed for 20,000 years, the date of the peak of the last ice age, but these moraines were much younger.

Not only is Greenland's melting ice sheet adding huge amounts of water to the oceans, it could also be unleashing 400,000 metric tons of phosphorus every year — as much as the mighty Mississippi River releases into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

«Warming greater than 2 degrees Celsius above 19th - century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity and — if sustained over centuries — melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea levels of several meters,» the AGU declares in its first statement in four years on «Human Impacts on Climate.»

NSIDC scientists said there was a lot of thin ice at the beginning of the melt season, because thinner ice does not take as much energy to melt away, this may have also contributed to this year's low minimum extent.

The oldest ever European genome shows that much of the continent's rich genetic mix stretches back over 30,000 years and survived the last ice age

«It turns out that for much of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet's history, it was not the commonly perceived large stable ice sheet with only minor changes in size over millions of years,» he saIce Sheet's history, it was not the commonly perceived large stable ice sheet with only minor changes in size over millions of years,» he saice sheet with only minor changes in size over millions of years,» he said.

«This is the first - ever such survey in the Northwest Passage, and we were surprised to find this much thick ice in the region in late winter, despite the fact that there is more and more open water in recent years during late summer,» says Haas.

When the planet's big ice sheets collapsed at the end of the last ice age, their melting caused global sea levels to rise as much as 100 meters in roughly 10,000 years, which is fast in geological time, Mann noted.

Ten thousand years ago, much of North America was covered with ice.

The results of this 20 - year study show that animal and plant communities were much more changeable during the ice age than they have been during the last 12,000 years of interglacial climate in which we live today.