Our captain would prefer to be fifty leagues farther out to sea, well away from that accursed shore, but I have commanded him to steer the shortest course.
The Earth in 2010 experienced temperatures higher than the 20th-century average for the 34th year in a row, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
If Earth's orbit were only 5 percent smaller than it is, temperatures during the early stages of Earth's history would have been high enough to vaporize the oceans.
If the Earth-Sun distance were as little as 1 percent larger, runaway glaciation on Earth about 2 billion years ago would have caused the oceans to freeze and remain frozen to this day.
The oxygen isotope ratio of the ocean changes as a great deal of water is withdrawn from it by evaporation and is precipitated as snow to form glacial ice.
Between 2006 and 2008, China had the largest number of original patent filings pertaining to wind, solar, and Marine energy followed by Japan, America and Germany.