Sentences with phrase «rose out of the sea»

He connected this danger with the vision, in Revelation 13, of a beast rising out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads» thus giving the appearance of omnipotence and omnipresence.

Take Saba, which is merely a mountain rising out of the sea and reachable only by boat.

It rose out of the sea at a spot located about 350 feet (100 m) from the coast, he said.

One day, a beautiful merman (Peter Hermann) rises out of the sea, and forms a strange, magical attraction to the boy.»

This ancient volcano rises out of the sea in the Alalakeiki Channel between the islands of Maui and Kahoolawe.

The towering volcanic escarpments of the Sierra Giganta Mountains rising out of the sea create your backdrop.

In a choreographed dance they appear to rise out of the sea momentarily, and then sink back below, out of sight.

During this election year, as the rhetoric around belief escalates, we would like to contribute to the cacophony by presenting «latter - day» incarnations of ancient icons — from Jesus of Nazareth himself, to Mary, Eve, and the seven - headed Beast of Blasphemy rising out of the sea in the hallucinogenic thirteenth chapter of The Book of Revelation.

Local places like Norway rising out of the sea will naturally have a drop in measured level even when the overall amount is rising if the isostatic rebound is greater than the rise.

But Panama rose out of the seas, slowly damming up the passage.

Most tropical islands are volcanic in origin, rising out of the sea into the landmasses we call home.

Not exact matches

Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

About seven miles off the coast of Suffolk, England sits a small abandoned World War II sea - fort, rising out of the metal legs.

Seven times Elijah asked him to go back; and in fact the seventh time, he reported, «Yes - I can see a cloud no bigger than a man's hand rising up out of the sea.»

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

Then one may watch across the great plain while evening declines over the shoulder of the hills of Israel, silhouetting the high lookout of Elijah's Place of Sacrifice and picking out with its last rays the church - crowned summit of Tabor; he may follow the gliding cloud shadows over the wide slope toward Galilee, and cling entranced to the fleeting tints of rose and gold and violet that enshrine the friendly heights while the last rays of the westering sun, far out over the Sea, touch lightly with a ruddy promise of hope and joy the last summits of the hills.

But now come calculations as to what must take place before the end: that, e.g., four kingdoms must pass away, or twelve plagues must come upon mankind, and monsters rise up out of the sea.

The gas lantern sent out its fumes, and the sea of bacon grease began to sputter and rise.

He won Hawaii's international surfing title three years ago at Makaha, Oahu's leeward beach, where a series of 20 - foot waves may suddenly rise and thunder in and as suddenly subside, so that a good rider on the last wave can sometimes catch the rebounding back swell and ride back out to sea.

«That necessitates taking a flexible approach, where possible: building for the half foot to 1.3 feet of sea - level rise that are likely by 2050, while plotting out options that will depend on what we learn in the next few decades and how sea level rises beyond that.»

This statistical approach can't isolate a cause, but the team points out plenty of possibilities: continental drift, intense volcanism, climate change and sea level rise.

Global warming could seriously mess with fisheries in a few ways: Carbon dioxide in the air contributes to ocean acidification, sea level rise could change the dynamics of fisheries, and cold water fish like salmon could be pushed out by warming streams.

The 2007 International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most authoritative source of climate science, spelled out the likely consequences of inaction, including extreme heat and precipitation, droughts, and rising seas.

I began by figuring out how much of a sea level rise my story needed.

Extraction of groundwater for irrigation and home and industrial use turns out to be an important missing piece of the puzzle in estimates for past and current sea - level changes and for projections of future rises

And in the era of climate change, those fleeing sea - level rise will be on the lookout for a place to live on higher ground, which is likely to push people of color and the poor out of neighborhoods that have historically been mostly black or Caribbean.

Pumping water out of oceans to store on Antarctica seems like a crazy solution to rising sea levels but thinking the unthinkable has merit, says Jeff Goodell

Ngurunderi angrily rose the seas, turning the women into rocks that now jut out of the water between the island and the mainland.

As climate change causes sea level to rise, wetland scientists are struggling to predict which salt marshes will drown — and which might climb out of danger.

«If we went all out to slow the warming trend, we might stall sea level rise at three to six feet,» says Robert Buddemeier of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is studying the impact of sea - level rise on coral reefs, «But that's the very best you could hope for.»

They can make big waves, but not ones that rise — as rogue waves do — three to five times as high as the waves around them and seem to come out of nowhere, out of sync with the rest of the sea, from a direction completely different from that of the wind and other waves.

«If the IPCC comes out with significantly less than 100 cm of sea level rise, there will be people in the science community saying we don't think that's a fair reflection of what we know,» said Bob Corell, chairman of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, speaking to Associated Press.

James Titus, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Sea Level Rise Project, says communities will have two choices: build walls or get out of the way.

Rising sea levels, loss of water in the Great Lakes, and reduced hydropower were among the injuries alleged by the plaintiffs; the lawsuits have since been combined, and two states have dropped out since the original suit was filed.

As the island rose upward out of the sea, volcanoes formed along its spine, with basins of shallow water between them.

James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies argues that China and India will make this decision out of pure self - interest, since rising sea levels could place large portions of their coastal populations at risk.

The team combined a computer model with 100 years of observations to tease out the fact that global sea - level rise is increasing the tidal range, or the distance between the high and low tides, in many areas throughout each bay.

No single entity is capable of addressing the vast needs for improved climate services in these nations: for everything from projections of future sea - level rise that help planners identify places to build and develop that are out of harm's way, to maps that overlay population, infrastructure, and climate data to help decision makers target resources to areas of greatest vulnerability.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

«I wouldn't rule it [4.6 metres of sea level rise] out, but we simply don't know how long it could take, and what else might happen in the meantime,» says Christensen.

In a study out of the University of Arizona, researchers found that melting ice sheets had a greater impact on sea level rise than the thermal expansion of the oceans during the previous interglacial period 125,000 years ago.

The current era (at least under present definitions), known as the Holocene, began about 11,700 years ago, and was marked by warming and large sea level rise coming out of a major cool period, the Younger Dryas.

In some cases, this may take the form of flexible adaptation pathways, with decisions made now for the next 30 years and decisions on the timing and sequencing of alternative options, conditional on future sea - level rise, planned out in advance.

But while it's clear that the sea surface rises in the main El Niño regions of the tropics, the effects further afield and on smaller scales have been harder to tease out, particularly along coastlines.

Pine Island Glacier could collapse — stagnate and retreat far up into the bay, resulting in rapid sea level rise — within the next few centuries, raising global sea levels by 1.5 m11, 12, out of a total of 3.3 m from the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet13.

Or you could just quote the relevant sections of Arthur Holmes's standard textbook «Principles of Physical Geology» that spells out a century's worth of observations, a calculation of CO2 rise due to oil and coal combustion, a 12 degree F temperature rise, and the resulting impact on glaciers and sea level — all published in the 1960s.

«With BAU (Business As Usual) humanity faces a very abrupt future of misery; including rapid 5 to 9 meter sea level rise taking out coastal cities around the planet.

It turns out, the duo has also made a routine out of rising and moving with the sun, and they wake up at the crack of dawn every day to swim in the cold Irish sea, oftentimes with hordes of friends.

Didn't have any vanilla so used 2 - 3 drops rose oil and a pinch of sea salt, which brings out the flavour.