Quotes About Temperature

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

Imagine that after reaching an atmospheric concentration of 450 ppm sometime in the next decade, we immediately stop all carbon dioxide emissions. By the year 3000, neither atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide nor global mean surface temperature would have returned to their pre-industrial baselines, and sea levels would still be rising.

Early in the nineteenth century, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was investigating what determines the temperature of terrestrial bodies such as the earth. He speculated that part of the answer was that atmospheric gases might inhibit heat from escaping, thereby warming the earth's surface.

Tyndall measured the absorption of infrared radiation by carbon dioxide and water vapor, and showed that slight changes in atmospheric composition would significantly raise the earth's surface temperature. He also suggested that methane could affect earth's temperature, but methane is so rare that it was not discovered in the atmosphere until 1948.

Flash fire." She turned her head as far as she could, trying to look at him. "I don't know what that means." He shifted on the branch. "First time I was on a submarine, we had a flash fire. It's a combustion explosion. A flammable mist builds up in the air, then suddenly, bam. Think super high temperatures and a rapidly moving flame front. It kills by asphyxiation. Burns up all the available oxygen. It's devastating.

You want hot days to get your fruit ripe but then you want it to cool off nicely at night so that the grapes stay on the vine longer and develop complexity.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

Is this a mild winter or a harsh winter?

How can you be so cold-blooded about everything?" She could have sworn that one corner of the Mage's mouth twitched upward for just an instant as he gestured toward the sun beating down upon them. "I am actually quite warm at the moment.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

the temperature at which various kinds of bacteria died and the power of different disinfectants to kill them. That information allowed the creation of antiseptic conditions in both laboratory and public health work.

Interestingly, a part of the cortisol secretion rhythm is related to the sleep/wake rhythm, and another part is coupled to the body temperature rhythm.

Cold didn't worry him unduly. Given that his normal body temperature was way below human levels, the dip in the river had been no more than refreshing, certainly not deadly.

It's Getting Hot in Here

Cold enough to freeze your Winnebago one day, melting all over the place the next.

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

El hipotálamo es la estructura clave en el control de la homeostasis o equilibrio interno del organismo. Por eso, ahí están el centro del hambre y el centro de la sed. Desde aquí también se regula la temperatura corporal, las funciones sexuales y la reacción al estrés.

Judge Barnett always said A/C is for people who don't have the patience to be hot.

A/C is for people who don't have the patience to be hot.

and the night temperature had not dipped below eighty,

When the Earth was last four degrees warmer, there was no ice at either pole. Global warming of this magnitude would eventually leave the whole planet without ice for the first time in nearly 40 million years.