Sentences with phrase «polar icecaps»

As contemporary signs of global warming, Schneider and his colleagues point to rapidly melting polar icecaps, ocean acidification, loss of coral reefs, longer - lasting droughts, more devastating wildfires, and rising sea level.

Whether it's the frustratingly unfulfilled promise of social media, or financially opaque ad placements, or agencies that substitute head count for experience, or awareness - building platforms that are disappearing like polar icecaps, or brands that are encrusted to the point of immobility with the bad decisions of a dozen previous custodians, a CMO's day often isn't nearly as much fun as it ought to be.

From polar icecaps to desert hotsprings, the microbes survive by converting sunlight into energy.

These reactions occur at a wide spectrum of temperatures, from those prevailing at the chilly polar icecaps to those at work churning near earth's core.

Also, the sluggish response of the massive polar icecaps to change smoothed the oxygen - isotope record.

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

The perception of plenty is an illusion: most of the Earth's fresh water is frozen in the polar icecaps, trapped in the soil or in deep, inaccessible underground lakes; only 1 % of all fresh water is available for people to drink and use.

, examine the flawed, conjectured hypothesises that Charles Darwin started - then jump on the wagon as the flight of fancy takes YOU to where ever YOU wishto go - YOU are in control, YOU create what you want, the laws of nature are at YOUR fingertips, why YOU can probably create a tree, or fill an ocean - freeze the polar icecaps — Lets all bow to YOU MR. SCIENTIST.

But I say it creates enough heat to melt the polar icecap!

Significantly, this water was found near Mars» north pole, but not in its polar icecaps, indicating that water extends farther than just those areas of trapped water ice, dust and carbon dioxide.

We are not obviously anywhere near Turin, or Italy, but rather in Tarr's central European wasteland (it is shot in Hungary), ravaged by a continuous gale that finally makes this setting look like a polar icecap.

Kevin Costner stars as the enigmatic drifter known only as «the Mariner», at a time when the world has been covered with water from the melted polar icecaps.

In Arthur and Sherlock, literary historian Michael Sims traces some of Doyle's grand adventures, including expeditions to the polar icecap and Africa, and shows how they became fodder for his early prose.

In this new series, polar icecaps melt, a trafficker drifts, Aleppo and its inhabitants fall, ghosts hover and Hamlet questions.

I would be suprised if the increased flow of cold water from the melting polar icecaps could decrease the total heat content of the oceans, given the amount of additional heat that must be in the oceans that is causing the coral bleaching episodes throughout the tropics.

That's why the polar icecap is melting.

Again, the evidence that's available to us mortals does NOT support The Goracle's claim that BOTH polar icecaps will be 100 % melted in five years, unless we take drastic action very soon.

Calculations by Sagan and his collaborators now suggested that the planet's climate system was balanced so that it could have been flipped from a state with oceans to the present frigid desert, or even back and forth between the two states, by relatively minor changes — changes in its orbit, or in the strength of the Sun's radiation, or in the reflection of sunlight off the polar icecap.

Not hat we know that there is any, but given that polar icecap melting would lower the elevation of the water mass, from land to sea level.

Strictly there should be corrections for: a. curvature, as the area of segment of the sphere of radius 93million miles is marginally larger that the flat disc (radius of earth) intersecting the sphere; b.radius of earth, which should be larger to include a proportion of atmosphere which absorbs light and possibly smaller to account for reflection from clouds towards the poles and the polar icecaps though one presumes these may be somehow accounted in albedo.

I was, however, thinking about rapid disappearance of thin broken swathes of the polar icecap.

Led «voyage of exploration through liquid space,» including a course beneath the polar icecap.