Sentences with phrase «reach freezing point»

However, Earth's polar regions currently experience net precipitation, and the fresh water effect on the ocean density allows the surface to freeze without the need for the entire column of ocean water to reach the freezing point.

The Earth needs about 20 degrees of greenhouse warming to reach the freezing point of water, whereas this planet requires about 50.

Therefore, instead of crystalizing when it reached its freezing point, the water remained liquid.

When the water reaches freezing point, it starts releasing latent energy, which then increases the rate of heat flow from the freezing water, both to the unfrozen water and to the air.

Not exact matches

David Fish's definition is «Once the overdue situation reached the point of a company paying the same total dividends in back - to - back years, it was considered a «freeze,» requiring deletion from the CCC listing.»

In fact, the solubility of carbon dioxide in water increases, geometrically, as water temperature decreases, reaching maximum solubility at the freezing point.

It's very common to reach a point where you can only add 2.5 pounds to the bar every other week on just a few of your lifts, and for others to just freeze for several months.

Days of Heaven is, of course, exactly that, and Malick's film now seems like a peak moment in a tendency that began with Coppola's Godfather films and Chinatown and saw its final flowering with Ragtime, True Confessions, and Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, where nostalgia reaches a frozen end point.

The student has reached the point of no return — angry, closed off, disengaged, hopeless, and feeling the desire to fight, freeze, or flee.

After an approximately 15 minute boat ride in ice cold weather which freezes my fingertips I reach the drop off point for tourists.

Ocean temperature change, however, reached a lower limit, probably because the freezing point of sea water put a restriction on how cold the deep ocean could get.

Exceeding the 400 parts per million level of worldwide atmospheric carbon dioxide later this decade continues a troubling trend which brings the world closer to the potential to reach a global warming tipping point in which global warming accelerates rapidly as the potent greenhouse gas methane is liberated from the frozen state that it has been in for millions of years.

As water has the property of reaching maximum density above its freezing point, the heat is transported towards the surface, eventually to be radiated away to outer space.

Fahrenheit is RELATIVE to the lowest point Daniel Gabriel managed to reach by mixing ice, water and salt., and Celsius is RELATIVE to the freezing point of water.

So in summary, the forecast warming was qualitatively pretty good even though temperatures at the Pole didn't reach up to the freezing point.

RealClimate is wonderful, and an excellent source of reliable information.As I've said before, methane is an extremely dangerous component to global warming.Comment # 20 is correct.There is a sharp melting point to frozen methane.A huge increase in the release of methane could happen within the next 50 years.At what point in the Earth's temperature rise and the rise of co2 would a huge methane melt occur?No one has answered that definitive issue.If I ask you all at what point would huge amounts of extra methane start melting, i.e at what temperature rise of the ocean near the Artic methane ice deposits would the methane melt, or at what point in the rise of co2 concentrations in the atmosphere would the methane melt, I believe that no one could currently tell me the actual answer as to where the sharp melting point exists.Of course, once that tipping point has been reached, and billions of tons of methane outgass from what had been locked stores of methane, locked away for an eternity, it is exactly the same as the burning of stored fossil fuels which have been stored for an eternity as well.And even though methane does not have as long a life as co2, while it is around in the air it can cause other tipping points, i.e. permafrost melting, to arrive much sooner.I will reiterate what I've said before on this and other sites.Methane is a hugely underreported, underestimated risk.How about RealClimate attempts to model exactly what would happen to other tipping points, such as the melting permafrost, if indeed a huge increase in the melting of the methal hydrate ice WERE to occur within the next 50 years.My amateur guess is that the huge, albeit temporary, increase in methane over even three or four decades might push other relevent tipping points to arrive much, much, sooner than they normally would, thereby vastly incresing negative feedback mechanisms.We KNOW that quick, huge, changes occured in the Earth's climate in the past.See other relevent posts in the past from Realclimate.Climate often does not change slowly, but undergoes huge, quick, changes periodically, due to negative feedbacks accumulating, and tipping the climate to a quick change.Why should the danger from huge potential methane releases be vievwed with any less trepidation?

Moreover, Bcash could reach the point where its block rewards aren't even worth the time and effort for miners to switch between chains, and Bcash freezes in its tracks, after all.

Set a freezing point so that when the temperature reaches it, level of warmth will automatically increase.

It reached a point where some fund managers had to freeze withdrawals from the funds.