Crabs and other marine invertebrates die when the water is too cold, because they cannot flush magnesium out of their systems.
"The water is obviously icy cold and people can die of hypothermia very quickly or drown if they are caught under the ice, " he said.
Already, the Street is pouring cold water on the notion that Hewlett-Packard might find buyers for its troubled Autonomy and EDS units.
Absorption is particularly fast in cold water so the Arctic is especially susceptible, and the recent decreases in summer sea ice have exposed more sea surface to atmospheric CO2.
The habitable zone is the region of a planetary system which is neither too hot nor too cold - such that water on the surface of a planet will neither evaporate nor freeze, but instead can stay liquid.
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While we can expect the Obamacare bashers to pour cold water on this good news, there is no denying that the law is paying some dividends in the critically important effort to bend the cost curve in healthcare delivery.
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The Rockefeller Institute is out with a report this morning that throws cold water on the winter optimism.
Liquid water is not something scientists expect to be apparent on Mars because the planet is so cold and dry, Squyres said.
The government has a target of the end of the year to bring the plant to a cold shutdown, when the reactors are stable and the water inside them is no longer boiling.
One is cold water, which the body has to warm up to 37C (98.6F).
The paradoxical phenomenon is thought to be caused by relatively cold plumes of fresh water derived from melting beneath the Antarctic ice shelves.
The heat exchangers and pipework required to make a 10MW plant already exist, but the 100MW facility will need a pipe that is not only 1km long (in order to reach the cold water at depth) but ten metres in diameter (in order to bring enough of that cold water to the surface).
The seawater down there is so cold that when natural gas bubbles out of the well into the water it forms methane hydrates, which clog the uptake pipe.
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That, at least, is the bucket-of-cold-water opinion of Gartner security industry analyst John Pescatore.
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Mr O'Neill consistently pours cold water on the need for more aid, claiming that there is scant evidence that it has done any good.
There is an overheated housing market that the government wants to throw buckets of cold water on, and it will.
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There is nothing like lying in the hot springs and bracing for a surge of cold sea water.
For example, because normal air conditioning is inadequate for lunar conditions, we were required to use cold water to cool the interior of our suits.
The Frogg Togg is scarf shaped and sort of clammy, and when you run it in under cold water (or dip it) it gets cold and stays that way for awhile.
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Peru's Pacific coastline is at the confluence of the Humboldt and Equatorial Counter currents, with warm water in the north and cold water in the south, a recipe for great marine diversity.
There is a similar set up of no electricity and cold-water showers (not a problem in the jungle heat) at Otorongo Lodge.
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