Sentences with phrase «which ice melts»

The curve, or rate at which ice melts, is not directly proportional to time and temperature.

As with rock, with ice, flowing water is a very powerful eroding force which greatly accelerates the speed with which ice melts and disintegrates.

Tides are responsible for large changes in ocean surface height and in ocean currents that help set the rate at which ice melts.

It went from -51 F to -50 F. New science apparently had ice apparently changed the temp at which ice melts by a whopping 82deg.

If temperature rises further, the rate at which the ice melts — and hence the rate of sea - level rise will increase.

By examining past ice shelf collapse and projecting the next century of temperature change onto current ice shelves, Trusel and his fellow researchers found a huge difference between a business - as - usual fossil fuel emission scenario, in which ice melt may increase eight-fold, and a scenario where emissions are stabilized relatively rapidly and ice melt remains relatively linear.

Not exact matches

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

The melting adds between 120 and 140 tons of ice to the ocean, which scientists say will raise water levels globally anywhere from 1.33 to 1.5 inches each year.

There are more, however, including the amount of sunlight an ice sheet is able to reflect; the larger an ice sheet, the more sunlight is reflected, but the smaller an ice sheet, the more ocean there is surrounding the ice sheet to absorb the sunlight which in turn heats up the surrounding waters increasing the melt which decreases the size of the ice sheet which in turn... and so goes the cycle.

I waited while the sisters dashed off, returning with kettles of steaming water, which they proceeded to pour on the pavement round the man to melt the ice that froze him to the ground.

I rolled a disc of royal icing which I «glued to the cake» with melted strawberry jam.

marshmallows kept ice cream from dripping as it melted, instead turning into a sort of panna cotta, which was convenient.

Between coordinating my daughters» daily chores and getting dinner ready in the crockpot (keeping the kitchen bearable, you know), I whipped up a batch of cold - brewed coffee, which I've found works the best for iced coffee (no melted ice cubes).

1 c strong - brewed coffee, cooled 1 c almond milk 3 oz dark chocolate, melted 2 tsp raw honey 2 c ice 1 tbsp shredded coconut, toasted and separated into 1/2 tsp amounts 1/2 c canned coconut milk, whipped 1 tbsp caramel (you can use store - bought or try making this paleo caramel sauce which is amazing) Chocolate shavings

Sift the icing sugar into a bowl and whisk in the milk and melted butter until you achieve a consistency which is spreadable but which will not drip off the biscuits.

NOTE: If you prefer not to use grain free powdered sugar, you can make the frostings with coconut butter and stevia (and aforementioned «dyes») or you can experiment with melted coconut oil which after solidifying will harden like icing

At the end of the day we'd call into the local Dairy (a corner store) and each choose a scoop of ice cream which, more often than not, ended up half melted down our hands before we'd even got back to the car.

This no machine chocolate ice cream is different from my chocolate mousse no machine ice cream, which is made with melted chocolate.

I have also rediscovered the glory of regular old ice cream sandwiches, that kind with all the hubbub about not melting, and may or may not have taken down a box in the last week — which is neither here nor there.

It's important to let the vegan cream cheese sit out at least 10 minutes before you mix in the sweetener so it has enough time to melt a little which will make the whole icing process much easier.

-LSB-...] Go ice fishing and see which temperature of water melts ice the fastest in this fun experiment from Science Sparks.

Ask the children to feel the water (make sure it's not too hot) and predict which will melt the ice the fastest.

Another fun and great sensory activity involving ice cubes which kids learn about ice and how it melts.

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas observes which substance -LCB- out of 5 -RCB- melts ice the fastest.

Then again, some kids who nurse past learning to talk report that breastmilk tastes a lot like melted ice cream, which is essentially what a milk shake is anyway.

Ice cubes also don't melt very fast, and have sharp edges which can cut the inside of the mouth.

which blamed the Tahoe for heat - trapping gasses and melting polar ice caps.

It cites numerous ways in which climate change is already threatening Europe, including glacial retreat in Europe's mountain systems, flooding from the melting ice - caps and increased water demand in the Mediterranea.

There should be no new fossil fuel infrastructure because greenhouse gases are heating up the atmosphere, causing polar ice to melt and violent, unpredictable weather events which cost us more in the long run.

Warm mountain winds are causing extensive winter melting on the surface of the Larsen C ice shelf, which could contribute to its breakup

It was early surmised that Martian caps must be composed of ice and snow, a theory which Prof. Lowell substantiates by pointing out that as the Martian cap melts it is surrounded by a deep blue band, which keeps pace with the shrinking cap and is clearly the product of its disintegration.

Warming temperatures causes ocean water to expand, which raises sea level and glacial ice to melt that creates water that makes its way into ocean basins.

The study uses data from two NASA missions — Operation IceBridge, which measures ice thickness and gravity from aircraft, and Oceans Melting Greenland, or OMG, which uses sonar and gravity instruments to map the shape and depth of the seafloor close to the ice front.

In summer, melting sea ice releases nutrients into the water, which triggers vast algal blooms.

They also found this discrepancy disappeared around 19,000 years ago, which is also when the ice sheets began to melt.

Additionally, the Zachariae glacier at the ice sheet margin began its retreat and moved into deeper water, which exacerbated the melt, said Bevis.

Melting sea ice exposes dark ocean, which means that the planet absorbs more solar heat.

A new University of Washington study, with funding and satellite data from NASA and other agencies, finds a trend toward earlier sea ice melt in the spring and later ice growth in the fall across all 19 polar bear populations, which can negatively impact the feeding and breeding capabilities of the bears.

The research team — which utilized 34,000 data records from 2010 and 2011 — concluded that melting sea ice is diluting seawater and reducing the concentrations of the carbonate minerals critical as building blocks for the shells of marine life.

Many clouds at mid-latitudes make rain by freezing water into ice crystals (which fall from the cloud then melt before they hit the ground), rather than by coalescing warm water droplets together.

Today's red deer, which recolonized Europe after the ice sheet melted about 12,000 years ago, fall into three or four distinct lineages that likely correspond to separate southern regions to which the deer had retreated during the height of the ice age, Stanton says.

«It won't take many more years like that to completely melt the ice fields,» Thompson said here on 18 February at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

The animals radiate tremendous amounts of body heat through their «hot plates,» which they use to melt their tunnels in ice and to hunt their favorite prey: penguins.

Melting sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, which in recent decades has warmed twice as quickly as the global average, according to a new study.

The feedback loop begins with warmer Arctic springs and summers, which cause more sea ice to melt each summer.

El Niño also brings warmer weather, which melts ice.

And that is because especially lining the peninsula as that ice melts, it makes that continent much more accessible to exploitation, oil drilling, precious mineral searches, which is suddenly going on now.

MELT OFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glaciers.