Sentences with phrase «sea levels were at»

«Modern - day levels of carbon dioxide were last reached about 15 million years ago,» Tripati says, when sea levels were at least 25 meters higher and temperatures were at least 3 degrees C warmer on average.

Studies of Earth's climate 125,000 years ago find that sea levels were at least 6 metres higher than today (Kopp 2009).

During the preceding glaciation (the LGM, or «Last Glacial Maximum»), global mean temperature was approximately 6 Celsius degrees cooler, sea levels were at least 120 meters lower than at present.

During the preceding glaciation (the LGM, or «Last Glacial Maximum»), global mean temperature was approximately 6 Celsius degrees cooler, sea levels were at least 120 meters lower than at present.

Even when sea levels were at their lowest, about 22,000 years ago at the height of the last ice age, the islands were likely out of the deer's swimming range.

do you bake at 375F because you're up so high or is this temp for the cake, no matter what sea level you are at?

Around 3 million years ago, when temperatures were just 1 to 2 °C higher than the average of the past couple of millennia before humans began warming the climate, sea level was at least 25 metres higher than present.

«Modern atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are today equivalent to those about three million years ago, when sea level was at least six meters higher because the ice sheets were greatly reduced.

When that city was being built over 2000 years ago, sea level was at least 2 feet lower and there was no swamp.

Quantitatively, Vasskog et al. estimate that during this time (the prior interglacial) the GrIS was «probably between ~ 7 and 60 % smaller than at present,» and that that melting contributed to a rise in global sea level of «between 0.5 and 4.2 m.» Thus, in comparing the present interglacial to the past interglacial, atmospheric CO2 concentrations are currently 30 % higher, global temperatures are 1.5 - 2 °C cooler, GrIS volume is from 7 - 67 % larger, and global sea level is at least 0.5 - 4.2 m lower, none of which observations signal catastrophe for the present.

It's particularly important data to get, as you want to know how the whiplashes work in a warm period like today's, when Greenland and Iceland are the main source of North Atlantic meltwater and the sea level is at a modern height.

CO2 minima were reached approximately when the sea level was at a minimum, hence, the extent of the continental ice sheets were at a maximum, and the highest CO2 levels were found during interglacials during the high stands of the sea level.

«The Caesarea results indicate that about 2000 years BP sea levels was at its present elevation, while during the Byzantine period it was at or above its present level by (about 30 cm - plus or minus 15 cm) During the Crusader period «(around 1300AD)» sea level may have been lower than today by about 40c, plus or minus 15 cm.»

Taken together, the average of the warmest times during the middle Pliocene presents a view of the equilibrium state of a globally warmer world, in which atmospheric CO2 concentrations (estimated to be between 360 to 400 ppm) were likely higher than pre-industrial values (Raymo and Rau, 1992; Raymo et al., 1996), and in which geologic evidence and isotopes agree that sea level was at least 15 to 25 m above modern levels (Dowsett and Cronin, 1990; Shackleton et al., 1995), with correspondingly reduced ice sheets and lower continental aridity (Guo et al., 2004).

Under those conditions, Earth had little ice, and sea level was at least 60 metres higher than current levels.

Not exact matches

While liftoff speed is around 170 mph at sea level, a commercial airliner's cruising speed is around 550 mph at 40,000 feet — where the air density is 10x thinner.

Warming temperatures have been chipping away at the Antarctic ice and contributing to sea level rise.

Beyond sea level rise, San Francisco is slowly sinking at a rate of up to 10 millimeters per year in a process called subsidence.

The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change, an intergovernmental group charged with researching the effects of carbon emissions, said at the end of September that climate change is unequivocal and that going forward, sea levels will rise at a faster rate than they have over the past 40 years.

But when you compare it to the 7.3 metres (24 feet) that global sea levels are predicted to rise if the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt away all at once... well, it puts things into perspective.

Rounding out the new ships is a Ripcord by iFly indoor skydiving school and a Northstar observation tower, which lifts up to 14 guests at a time 300 feet above sea level for a 360 - degree view.

In this study, the effects of sea level rise (assumed to continue at present, at the time of the study, rates, which the authors noted was likely conservative), wave fetch, wind speed and direction were examined and the resultant erosion rate was estimated for the Western and Eastern shore of Uppands, Port Isobel and Tangier Island by selecting 10 points along the western and eastern shoreline of all the islands.

While the ideas are by no means earth shattering, they are fundamental to driving the kind of sea - level change needed at Uber:

The religious conservatives, beset by this sea change in the secular culture, might have been expected to retrench into their conventional media stereotypes: authoritarian, emotionally uninvolved husbands and fathers, a rigidly patriarchal family style, deeply gendered domestic roles that kept women at home» plus, as Wilcox puts it, «high levels of corporal punishment and domestic violence.»

Since these plants can not survive at sea level, how was their environment controlled?

Strangely, just as welfare states are drowning in a sea of debt whilst also increasingly being seen as at least partly responsible for lower levels of family formation and employment, the Church has started to question welfare states rather less.

What is the unladen flight carrying capacity of an African Swallow if the humidity is under 80 percent at sea level?

But the vantage point of being on elevated grounds, or at least above sea level, is perspective.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

On the way down I was shown the lines in the rock where Noah's flood rose to, which explained why there were sea fossils in the rock at these high levels so far from the sea.

Pretty much what I do to keep stress at bay, but if we're taking things to another level of indulgence, I'd say anything water - related: a Japanese onsen bath, hammam, a swim in the sea or even just a plunge in the pool.

My husband is from Colorado and he grew up making cookies with high - altitude adjustments — and even now that we live at sea level, we still use a high - altitude cookie recipe and think it turns out great every time.

Conscientious handling techniques are used at sea to preserve quality and ease stress levels of the fish.

I also make the recipes when I'm at sea level and when we are in the mountains (at 8,000 feet) and they work in both of those places too.

Because you're in CO and I'm in TX at sea level.

I checked my candy thermometer just in case, and my water boiled hard at 213 F (sea level), so I don't think that's it.

Our house there is at about 8000 feet above sea level and I am not sure how to convert for the altitude.

Close up the oven and bake until just set, it will still be jiggly, about an hour (I am located at about 6000 ft. and have made similar recipes at over 7000 ft. and that's about the time for altitude — if at sea level I would check your cake at about 40 minutes).

If you are at sea level than I think it should work (haven't tested!)

I'm so glad you find them delicious — I'm always amazed how tasty they turn out given their few ingredients — magic:) As for the rise, are you baking at sea level or high - altitude?

I've tried using less, and 2 teaspoons for the recipe above was okay at higher altitude, but didn't work well at sea level.

I'm here at sea level (+100» or so) with you in SF, so it's not an altitude thing.

The Blue Ridge Mountains where the bison graze are more than 3,000 feet above sea level, and Dr. King feels that helps the bison the same way it creates more red blood cells in athletes training at elevation.

We're at sea level on the East Coast and I only let it sit the minimum amount of time, but they turned out totally awesome.

(She says her recipe worked the same at sea level, too, which I find hard to believe, but she's the expert.)

I needed 10 tablespoons of water, I don't know if being at sea level has anything to do with it.

Baked for 14 minutes (we are at sea level).

Funny that I was thinking my recipe comments should have included that it took much longer, but the notes I made beside the recipe were when I lived in AK at sea level.

Following recommendations offered by CoopeTarrazú agronomists, Araya also prepared for a roya (coffee - leaf rust) attack, which has begun to affect once - immune altitude regions like Tarrazú — her farm is located at 5,250 f. (1,600 m) above sea level — due to global warming.

I'm about to move to 7000ft for the summer and I've always read that baking is different at altitude than at sea level.