Sentences with phrase «near melting point»

21 December 2016... Mashable (Quoted): North Pole to warm to near melting point this week: 50 degrees above normal

20 December 2016... The Washington Post, Capital Weather Gang (Quoted): Forecast: North Pole to warm 50 degrees above normal Thursday, near melting point

The point is, ice near its melting point tends to fracture — suddenly — leaving two chunks of ice separated by a film of water.

I also recommend having the butter still just a tad bit cold, not near melting point.

The research, «Dynamic Odd - Even Effect in Liquid n - Alkanes near Their Melting Points,» has been published in the German publication Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Not exact matches

White clumps can be found in partially melted coconut oil; they're the original crystalline structure of the saturated fats when they're near to the approximately melting point.

This can help to induce the melting of ice near the anti-stellar point and create additional habitable area surrounding the night - time hemisphere.

The same is true for ice melting: All glaciers of Greenland are receding, but the breakup point of the largest tidal glacier (near Illulisat) moved faster inland in the 1930 - 1940 period than today.

Reducing emissions of the short - lived climate forcers black carbon and tropospheric ozone — soot and smog — has been identified by scientists as the most effective strategy to slow Arctic warming and melting in the near term, forestalling potentially irreversible tipping points such as the melting, while the world works to reduce emissions of GHGs.

Still, he points out that the models make the assumption that melting rates will increase in the near future and that, while this is likely, it is not necessarily a given.

Meanwhile, a U.N. report predicted $ 1 trillion in annual damage from ocean acidification if carbon pollution is not curbed, and the Antarctic ice pack appears to have grown this year partly because fresh water from melting glaciers has raised the freezing point of the near - shore Southern Ocean.

22 December 2016... The Washington Post, Capital Weather Gang (Quoted): Weather buoy near North Pole hits melting point

They point out that most of the basal melt come from «small warm cavity ice shelves» and warn about the same stretch near Totten:

RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase in the release of methane could happen within the next 50 years.At what point in the Earth's temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what point would huge amounts of extra methane start melting, i.e at what temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane melt, or at what point in the rise of co2 concentrations in the atmosphere would the methane melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp melting point exists.Of course, once that tipping point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around in the air it can cause other tipping points, i.e. permafrost melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping points, such as the melting permafrost, if indeed a huge increase in the melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge, changes occured in the Earth's climate in the past.See other relevent posts in the past from Realclimate.Climate often does not change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick, changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick change.Why should the danger from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?

That was a key point of Part I of this post; that in the real world, key climate change impacts — sea - ice loss, ice - sheet melting, temperature, and sea - level rise — are all either near the top or actually in excess of their values as predicted by the IPCC's climate models.

Sea levels have been rising in IRREGULAR manner for near 20,000 years; whilst glaciers have been melting for that period also as the Ice point altitude rises through the atmosphere.

The scientific literature and recent observations — along with our ongoing lack of climate action — have long passed the worrisome stage (see the post last month «Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Nearing Critical «Tipping Point» «and links below).

«The techniques and tools of the artist blacksmith enable steel bars to be brought to life by heating the metal to near - melting point in the fire, before forging or hammering out tapers and shapes on the anvil and forming them into beautiful components.