Sentences with phrase «ocean phenomena like»

Not exact matches

A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half - metaphoric personifications of those great spheres of abstract law and order into which the natural world falls apart — the sky — sphere, the ocean - sphere, the earth - sphere, and the like; just as even now we may speak of the smile of the morning, the kiss of the breeze, or the bite of the cold, without really meaning that these phenomena of nature actually wear a human face.

Other phenomena that could not be understood in this way could be imaged as being like the waves on the ocean.

While the phenomenon sounds like the stuff of horror films, it is common practice for these «butterflies of the ocean,» a new University of Queensland - led study published today in PLOS One has found.

A professor who teaches robots to provide therapy to children with disabilities, an entrepreneur who designed self - powered rescue vehicles to prevent ocean drownings, and a filmmaker who invents new filmmaking techniques to document natural phenomena like the entire lifespan of a flower and each wing beat of a bee are among the 2016 AAAS - Lemelson Invention Ambassadors.

For example, Cassini discovered that the Saturn satellite Enceladus is a mini-world of active jets — geyser - like phenomena that blast out water vapor and ice particles from the huge, salty ocean that lies beneath the moon's icy crust.

This is the type of variability that comes from natural interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere (i.e., that due to phenomena like the El - Nino / Southern Oscillation or perhaps the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation).

What's particularly striking, scientists say, is that 2014 was so hot without the benefit of an El Niño, a cyclical phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean that can periodically bump up global temperatures a bit — as happened in previous record years like 2010 and 2005 and 1998.

The «science» of the CRU dominates the «science» behind the UN's IPCC, which dominates the «science» behind the Congressional cap - and - trade boondoggle, the upcoming Copenhagen shakindownen of the developed world, and the now routine phenomenon of leaders of advanced, prosperous societies talking like gibbering madmen escaped from the padded cell, whether it's President Obama promising to end the rise of the oceans or the Prince of Wales saying we only have 96 months left to save the planet.

They also include models for things like: entry into and exit from Ice Ages, the effect of the Earth's orbit on climate, the earth's climate history on scales of thousands to millions of years, ocean - atmosphere couplings (e.g. heat transfer, CO2 sinks), decadal phenomena such as ENSO and the PDO.

That has to be the crux of the AGW debate, because people like Mielser can procrastinate about penguins, polar bears and heat devouring oceans (how AGW, which is an atmospheric phenomenon, can keep the air at the same temperature but cause the seas to warm is beyond comprehension!)