Sentences with phrase «off ice floes»

Never - before - filmed sequences will include the growth of a saltwater icicle (brinicle) that freezes everything it touches and orca whales working as a team to create killer waves that wash seals off ice floes.»

These highly intelligent cetaceans have been documented creating large waves to wash seals off ice floes, and even intentionally beaching themselves to catch prey on the shore.

Not exact matches

The misadventures this time find our heroes (voiced as ever by John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Ray Romano) drifting off away from their families on an ice floe.

Finally, when the coast was clear, the seal was able to safely swim off to another, more secure ice floe.

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

R. Gates: yep, no doubt the MacKenzie is delivering enough heat into the Beaufort; and the lower latitude Beaufort itself likely contains enough heat to melt the entire 2.2 M sq km of ice extent floes off.

Strong winds blowing off the continent are pushing the giant floe away from its parent, the giant Pine Island Glacier, and the warming Southern Hemisphere's has melted the thick winter sea ice that held the block in place since July, said Grant Bigg, an ocean modeler at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

Yet the katabatic winds which blow off West Greenland are sufficient to drive ice floes away from the shore, and to induce a northwards ocean current along the coast.

Then at the end of the novel, they go into the Arctic Ocean and we're led to believe that they die as they drift off on an ice floe,» he said.