Sentences with phrase «on warm currents»

Every word that as come before defies his future, each inspiration that has flown from his pen as effortlessly as birds gliding on warm currents conspires against new rivals.

Not exact matches

The Silverman brothers already have numerous connections to college officials through friends, alumni groups and former and current classmates, meaning the company can use warm leads rather than having to rely on cold - calling in new markets.

«But if the current trajectory of carbon pollution levels continues unchecked, the world is on track for at least three degrees of warming.

Responding to a recent article in Nature on the psychology of climate change, The Guardian «s Andrew Brown argues that combatting global warming will require something beyond carbon taxes, recycling programs, and technological innovation: There may be ways of fixing [the current....

But when current growth leads to growing ozone holes, progressive global warming, the exhaustion of soils, and the disappearance of wetlands and fisheries, costs are being imposed on the future.

Most of the current discussion focuses on what can be done to reduce the rate of exhaustion of limited resources, the polluting of air, water, and soil, and the rate of global warming.

Cover the dough with clingfilm and let it rest in a warm, current - free place — the oven with the light on will work wonderfully.

Honestly, I LOVE stew, and given my current hankering for fall weather and food, I was practically itching to break out my Dutch oven and simmer something warm and comforting on the stovetop.

And a stubborn and long - suffering minority of purists has meanwhile been borrowing from the drifters to prove that Steelhead, which have long been taken on flies in the warm, summer - run streams, can also be taken with them in the winter when they stay deep in the chill current and when insect life is nonexistent.

The current injury came about because the so called professional didn't warm up before coming on the pitch as a sub.

However, if you're looking for bargains and packs of leggings, then check out Carter's current sale on all things leggings and leg warmers!

Though the chastisement from the Board of Ethics wound up the current Zatz administration on a sour note, the year's last Town Board meeting did not end without a round of applause from the audience and some warm words of appreciation for the outgoing public officials.

The front - and - center New York delegation gave their mayor a warm welcome, but much of the buzz around his speech had focused on the time it was being delivered: in the 5 p.m. hour, long before the coveted prime time slots, and long before Mayor Michael Bloomberg will kick off a prime - time line - up stacked with the current president and vice president and Clinton's veep contender, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine.

The lights of Jerusalem twinkle around him on a warm evening as he worries, open - collared, about his current work as Middle East peace envoy.

Mr Cable said he warmed to Browne's recommendation that higher earners pay a real interest rate on their tuition fee loans and no graduate should begin to start repaying until they earn # 21,000 (the current threshold is # 15,000).

But under those future warmer conditions, monarchs raised on the tropical milkweed survived at only one fifth the rate of butterflies raised under current conditions.

Meanwhile, by the end of this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are expected to complete a head - to - toe examination of how the office works and whether it keeps abreast with current science, and later this year NASA is holding a major workshop that could lead to a redefinition of special regions on Mars, the warm and wet areas that are off - limits for all but the most sterile of spacecraft.

In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.

The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

The causes of the warming remain debated, but Liu and his team homed in on the melting glacial water that poured into oceans as the ice receded, paradoxically slowing the ocean current in the North Atlantic that keeps Europe from freezing over.

In the new set - up, a real - world seasonal forecast driven by data on current sea - surface temperatures will be run alongside a simulated «no global warming» seasonal forecast, in which greenhouse gas emissions have been stripped out.

Some glaciers on the perimeter of West Antarctica are receiving increased heat from deep, warm ocean currents, which melt ice from the grounding line, releasing the brake and causing the glaciers to flow and shed icebergs into the ocean more quickly.

And the waters where those currents come from, those waters are getting warmer,» says Alek Petty, a climatologist on the Operation IceBridge team.

As they report in a paper published July 16 in Current Biology, the minute insects employ a razor - sharp sense of smell to tip them off that a warm - blooded meal is nearby, and then use vision and other senses to home in on the feast.

He warned on Tuesday that warming ocean currents east of Greenland were melting ice in the seabed.

The future of the currents, whether slowing, stopping or reversing (as was observed during several months measurements), could have a profound effect on regional weather patterns — from colder winters in Europe to a much warmer Caribbean (and hence warmer sea surface temperatures to feed hurricanes).

New research shows that the current drought plaguing the American West is likely the beginning of a new trend brought on by global warming.

Launching his long - awaited plan to combat climate change today, Obama explicitly linked current hardships to our planet's warming trend: «Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next, and the higher food prices get passed on to you,» he told an audience at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

But as the two shelves are on opposite sides of the peninsula and subject to different ocean currents, he says, «it was probably due to atmospheric warming».

But in the journal Science on Thursday, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, surveys the current research and concludes «it is safe to say that global warming will not lead to the onset of a new ice age».

Warm currents can melt the floating ice shelves that hold back ice on land.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«Having said all that,» said Larsen, «the current climate could slow down the advance of Yahtse or it could stop it a lot sooner than it would if we didn't have this warming trend going on right now.»

Unexpectedly, this more detailed approach suggests changes in Antarctic coastal winds due to climate change and their impact on coastal currents could be even more important on melting of the ice shelves than the broader warming of the ocean.

But the prospect of global warming, together with the recent jolt in fuel costs, is bringing industry round to the idea that «we can not continue current levels of dependence on fossil fuels.»

Hamilton noted that the commission's report is not the first time The Lancet has taken a stab at climate change, but previous reports focused on the worst - case scenarios of global warming and their devastating health consequences, whereas the current report highlights the benefits of addressing climate change and touts «no regrets» actions that benefit the environment and health.

Even with more beetles munching on them, an increase of 2 °C — the current target cap for global warming — bumps the average mosquito's probability of survival into adulthood by 53 %.

The science team obtained vital information about the physical characteristics within one large warm - water eddy, which likely originated from the North Brazil Current, and analyzed its potential influence on sub-surface ocean conditions during the passage of tropical cyclones.

But there are many unknowns about the current status of 11 species of marine mammals who depend on Arctic sea ice to live, feed and breed, and about how their fragile habitat will evolve in a warming world.

A March study shows that one large swath of the ice sheet sits on beds as deep as 8,000 feet below sea level and is connected to warming ocean currents.

If the new results are correct, that means warming will come on faster, and be more intense, than many current predictions.

Written by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, the report concludes that the world is on a path to a 4 °C warmer world by end of this century and that current pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not reduce warming by very much.

The section of the 2007 IPCC report that deals with climate impacts, called Working Group II, included a statement in its chapter on Asia (see p. 493) that Himalayan glaciers are receding faster than any other glaciers on Earth and «the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate.»

East Antarctica, situated on high ground that protects it from warming ocean currents, was considered stable.

The large, bald - headed birds float on rising currents of warm air known as thermals, which they use to soar high into the sky without beating their wings, thereby saving energy.

With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.

Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.

On track, for these turtles, means following a warm, food - rich current system known as the North Atlantic gyre.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.