Sentences with phrase «soot covers»

A thick cloud of soot covers most of India, produced in part by millions of small cooking stoves, which typically burn wood.

October 9, 2017 What soot covered, hundred - year - old birds can tell us about saving the environment A unique study by UChicago grad students shows that discoloration of birds in museum collections can be used to trace the history of air pollution.

Ritchie maintains the visuals from the predecessor — the murky, soot covered Victorian England, and the slow - motion motif during Holmes» internal - planning of his fighting mechanics — but these can not save a film from what is an arbitrary sequel to a film that wrapped up nicely.

Mark wiped away a tear, his soot covered hand leaving a black smudge across his cheek.

I think they will find out they are fairly accurate and that the deciding factor was the conversion of red brick soot covered buildings to more reflective concrete ones, but who knows.

Not exact matches

Posthuman pleasure captures the peak of human happiness, the moment just before «the softly - falling soot of ordinary life» returns to cover our joy.

Do you recall the pictures of grimy soot - covered cities in Eastern Europe just after the Berlin wall came down?

Sitting next to a soot - covered survivor on a bench who was screaming hysterically as bodies rained from the sky, a pastor's wife (who had just escaped from Tower One) takes her hand and quotes Romans 8: «Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.»

The late Mark Heard wrote their anthem: «We are soot - covered urchins running wild and unshod / We will always be remembered as the orphans of God.»

Granted, there are more benefits to reducing particulate and greenhouse gas emissions than just climate change, i.e. PM 2.5 which can be stuck in the human lung and cause cancer / respiratory issues, SO2 which contributes to acid rain (we've already eliminated the majority of this problem), as well as soot (nobody wants the surrounding area covered in ash).

Last night they played in the (thankfully cool) fireplace and covered the family room with soot.

«I listen to the advice of my grandfather who said you should never wrestle with a chimney sweep because you will also end up covered in soot.

However, when the Industrial Revolution occurred, soot from factories covered the birch trees» white bark, turning them black.

It may also look for new ways of curbing emissions not currently covered by any targets, legal or otherwise — everything from international air travel and shipping to the soot from a billion African cooking stoves.

After running the model, the team compared the model's results to actual soot data taken from seven sites in the Tibetan Plateau / Himalayan region and to satellite data of snow cover to see how well it represented soot and snowfall.

Several people's faces are covered with soot after an explosion.

Sometimes Ridley Scott captures lightning in a bottle, and sometimes he ends up holding shards of glass, his face covered in soot and his hair standing straight up, cartoon - like.

They saw workers dressed in suits covered with soot flee in terror as their office buildings collapsed around them — and they learned that the world is not a safe place.

Are they black and covered in soot / Has oil leaked past the valve covers and soaked the plugs and wires / are they wet and smell like gas?

the sensors are covered with soot that is cooked on pretty good preventing the heater circuit from operating properly

Where it could go wrong VW's diesel scandal will rear its soot - covered head, and though we don't yet know its full financial implications, expect cost - cutting to affect niche products such as this.

If the plugs are covered in black soot, whitish powder, or really anything other than tan, make a note of that.

She remembers long days in the West Indian fields digging with a rod of pointed iron under the burning sky; she remembers restless nights as black as soot listening for the sound of footsteps approaching the door and wondering whether tonight it would be her turn to be covered.

One moment Mario could be covered in soot following the aftermath of an explosion or shivering profusely as the chilling frost envelopes him; it's a delightful element that profusely complements Mario Odyssey's charming nature.

At the end of Iron Keep, lies a soot and smoke covered stage called the «Tower of Black Mist», and another challenge for one of the lost crowns.

Two works involving taxidermied butterflies sold for $ 40,000 (roughly $ 49,300), and a work that incorporates soot on canvas, covered by a unique plexiglass case, sold for $ 65,000 (nearly $ 80,200).

the areas covered in the study included 116 American cities, with the highest levels of soot particles found in areas including the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Central Valley of California; Birmingham, Ala.; Atlanta; the Ohio River Valley; and Pittsburgh.

There is no «proof» that these are more than natural occurrences (or, admittedly, neither that they are not) and require, for now, really contorted tortuous explanations (snow / ice getting covered with soot, Arctic really getting lots warmer than the few tenths of a degree of the global average just the past 2 - 3 decades, etc.) why AGW is causing them — though they are professed with religious conviction.

These forcings are spatially heterogeneous and include the effect of aerosols on clouds and associated precipitation [e.g., Rosenfeld et al., 2008], the influence of aerosol deposition (e.g., black carbon (soot)[Flanner et al. 2007] and reactive nitrogen [Galloway et al., 2004]-RRB-, and the role of changes in land use / land cover [e.g., Takata et al., 2009].

P.S. I'm reminded of the injunction, «Don't fight with the sweep — you'll get covered in soot.»

Black soot from the plant «covered everything nearby,» and area farmer claimed he lost several cows due to the plant's soot and chemicals.

It changes because of greenhouse gases, cloud and ice cover changes, land clearing, volcanoes, dust and soot in the atmosphere — all of the physical changes that result in a change in the radiative flux leaving the planet either as IR (heat) emissions or as reflected sunlight.

Soot particles in the atmosphere absorb radiation, but studies suggest their effect on cloud cover and thickness may promote an overall net cooling.

This polar amplification is thought to be due largely to changes in sea ice, with some contributions from changes in snow cover, atmospheric and ocean circulation, cloud cover and the presence of soot.

Washington, March 4 (IANS) Soot falling on the snow covered Tibetan Plateau causes more rainfall over India and China, says a new study.

The above image was captured by a NASA satellite last week and shows large parts of South East Asia (Borneo, Sumatra, Singapore) covered in a brown haze of soot and other air pollution derived from Indonesian forest fires, which has now also reached Thailand.

There followed speculation on possible ways of combating this catstrophic cooling, like blowing polar ice up with nuclear energy or covering sea with «black soot».

The largest immediate impact will come from reducing powerful but relatively short - lived pollutants, like black carbon (especially soot from cooking fires), methane, and HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons, used in cooling equipment), and by stabilizing the world's forest cover.

In the 1970's, when we were worried about global cooling, some climatologists seriously suggested covering the polar caps with soot in order to melt the ice!

They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve.

But dirty, soot - covered ice absorbs more warmth from the sun, causing a glacier to melt more quickly.

«The debris cover has the opposite effect of soot and dust on glaciers.

Black carbon, which includes soot and other carbon particles can antagonise warming in the Arctic by covering reflective ice and absorbing additional heat into the ice speeding up its melt.

These human forcings include greenhouse gas emissions (e.g. CO2, methane, CFCs), aerosol emissions and deposition [e.g., black carbon (soot), sulfates, and reactive nitrogen], and changes in land use and land cover.

The then Soviet Union had (So I am informed) conducted some fairly successful experiments in creating large scale ice melt by covering the ice with soot.

This is literally as the idea from the lets cover the arctic with soot to melt it and prevent an ice age department

Anyway, keep up the revelations, we can now add Greenpeace inspired polemic to WWF reports, misquoting of effects, glaciers melting not, sea rising fast not, warming, if any, not happening at present, bad data, bad models, poor physics and ignoring of main natural factors (Sun, orbital variations, cosmic rays via cloud cover, ocean heating and cooling cycles, volcanoes, soots, aerosols, etc)

But if you still want to remove it, your Hershey, PA renters insurance won't pay for a dry cleaner in this situation — industrial smoke and soot are not covered perils, although smoke from a fire would be.

Exclude cover where there has not been any actual flame damage (such as damage from scorching, melting, heat, smoke, ash or soot).

By the way, check your policy to make certain it covers soot and smoke damage, which can involve costly repairs even if your home escapes a fire.