Besides the economic gains for all Americans, what does the melt away of 10 pounds mean, exactly, for every individual?
When Queen Victoria rounds on her groom, John Brown, for over-familiarity, the courtiers melt out of the shot, leaving him isolated and vulnerable.
In addition, Was said, the fuel rods are likely in a state of "partial melt, " the extent of which will be difficult to determine.
"But, ' adds Mel Reasoner, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative, "in many arid and semi-arid areas, people are dependent not only on the amount of glacier melt water, but on the timing of the water flow.
Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in a heavy, large skillet over medium heat.
Its Scandinavian menu will melt the sangfroid of even the frostiest critic from that region.
As this trend of melt continues, it may be difficult to stop.
They will soon bioengineer bacteria to melt oil out of tar sands, turn grass into diesel fuel and scavenge natural resources of every kind out of low-grade, thinly dispersed deposits.
While earthquakes have often been blamed for rock failures and landslides on mountain slopes, scientists also point at global temperature rises for rapid thawing of snowfields and glacial melt that can disturb the flow of snow-fed rivers.
These changes may have resulted in earlier snow melt and exposure of darker rocks, soil and sea ice, leading to warming throughout Greenland in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries when soot levels were at their highest.
BBC: Human activities have left a visible mark on the Arctic
In this invisible world, tiny particles of gold melt at temperatures several hundred degrees lower than a large nugget, and copper, which is normally a good conductor of electricity, can become resistant in thin layers in the presence of a magnetic field.
The researchers have also developed a type of liposomes which melt quickly, so the drug can be delivered into the tumour within 20 seconds of heating.
They melt under the heat of the broiler and go down quivering and gooey.
Or plunge into the 200-foot-long pool, which appears to melt into the waters of the lake beyond.
In 60 years the ice caps could melt and one fifth of the world's land will go under water.
To keep treasure-hunters away, the find remained a secret for two years while archaeologists scoured the area of the melt-back and analysed the finds.
This phase change of water causes a powerful local feedback, which, together with moderate global warming, can substantially increase the length of the melt season.
Seeing his carefully nurtured negotiations melt into the hell of rocket and artillery barrages, then-U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew to Damascus to mediate a ceasefire.
With snowfall reasonably constant over the period, it appears that melt as a result of the 1-2-degree rise in air temperatures has tipped the ice out of balance.
Bigger operators don't have the luxury of halting production: Many of the newer oil sands projects are not the typical open strip mines, rather they inject steam into the ground to slowly melt the bitumen out of the sands.
If parts of these were to melt, the sea level would rise far more rapidly than in the past (when much of the rise has been because water expands as it warms).
Take a metre of powder snow, then melt and freeze, melt and freeze, and after eight to 10 years you have a centimetre of ice.
For him, the video echoed his experiences in the Arctic, surveying bears that are struggling because of sea ice melt.
That's a potential concern of the enhanced melt in west Antarctica if the warming trend we find in summer continues.
BBC: West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate
This type of first quarter melt-up is not without precedent, as last year we had a similar scenario over that time-frame.
If Cyprus's banks melt down and the economy of 800, 000 people collapses, it is really too small to hurt the rest of Europe directly.
The clean-energy glut was predictable, given the tendency of snow to melt in the spring and given whopping increases in the region's wind-generating capacity.
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