Sentences with phrase «nearest the poles where»

As blogger Andrew Montford has pointed out, it was theGuardian's environment editor, John Vidal, who wrote: «The world's biggest physical changes in the past few years are mostly seen nearest the poles where climate change has been most extreme.

The world's biggest physical changes in the past few years are mostly seen nearest the poles where climate change has been most extreme.

Not exact matches

Rather that than live on you knees under a religious doctrine you can in no way believe or conform to and should not be any where near the poling station.

On our star, the Sun, the sunspots are seen in a belt around the equator, but now scientists have observed a large, distant star where sunspots are located near the poles.

For example, he pointed to sun - shy craters at the lunar poles, where near - constant darkness has trapped and preserved water ice ripe for conversion into oxygen, water and rocket propellant.

The magnetic field lines originate in the Earth's core and emerge near the poles, where their angle of dip — or inclination — relative to Earth's surface is almost 90 degrees.

Among other things, giant cell circulation helps transport energy from the sun's polar regions to its equator, where material rotates around the sun about 10 days faster than it does near the poles.

There are also places near the poles of the moon where it stays light for months at a time.

The ice they carried would have vaporized from the impact, settling eventually in permanently shadowed craters near the north and south lunar poles, where the extreme cold (below — 400 degrees Fahrenheit, according to recent observations) would have preserved it almost indefinitely.

But when this happens, tiny magnetic particles in the rocks near areas where the seafloor is spreading will change direction to line up with the new pole.

Near the top of the trim level totem - pole is where you'll find the delightfully decked - out Pure Premium model, which includes such features as adaptive xenon headlamps, a blind - spot warning system with rear cross-traffic alert, keyless ignition and entry, as well as a navigation platform that supports voice - command inputs.

A ghost bike is a bicycle painted white and chained to a pole near the place where a cyclist has been hurt or killed by a car as a roadside memorial.

I was merely trying to figure how area such solar panel array would take up and this had nothing to do with costs but checking to see if it took up more area or somewhere close to areas of «peaks of eternal light»: «NASA and Europe revealed a small number of illuminated ridges within 15 km from the pole, each of them much like an island of no more than a few hundred meters across in an ocean of eternal darkness, where a lander could receive near - permanent lighting (~ 70 — 90 % of time in lunar winter, likely 100 % in lunar summer).»

Satellite altimetry measures the level of the entire ocean, except for regions near coastlines on near the poles, where satellites can not measure,

See e.g. the source / sink area's of the oceans, where most important sources are near the equator and most important sinks are near the poles, especially the NE Atlantic: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/pubs/outstand/feel2331/maps.shtml

Eventually, we will get to a state where there is enough heat absorbed during the summer, even at the shorter summer near the pole, to completely melt the sea ice.

In 1946 British physicists Alan Brewer and Gordon Dobson [3] devised a model of very slow, convective, stratospheric ozone transport from the equator to the poles (Fig 1), explaining why more ozone is found in polar regions than near the equator where more solar radiation occurs.

What both Willis and Pekka miss is that climatic temperature gradients high aloft (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/file/1328) bear little resemblance those found near the surface, where pole - ward heat transfer largely takes place.

While I'm not sure about your Antarctica point (global warming would be most intense near the poles), where's the evidence that warming would lead to the cataclysmic desertification portrayed in that map?