Sentences with phrase «changes in sea level vary»

Changes in sea level vary around the world and over time, because of the effects of ocean cycles, volcanic eruptions and other phenomena.

Not exact matches

Changes in three important quantities — global temperature, sea level and snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere — all show evidence of warming, although the details vary.
Scientists used up - to - date fossil records and improved analytical tools to find that, in the few million years prior to the asteroid impact that created the Yucatan's Chicxulub crater in Mexico, Earth was experiencing a major transformation in its environment, including widespread volcanic activity, changing sea levels and varying temperatures.
From recent instrumental observations alone we are therefore unable to predict whether mass loss from these ice sheets will vary linearly with changes in the rate of sea - level rise, or if a non-linear response is more likely.
As in the past, sea level change in the future will not be geographically uniform, with regional sea level change varying within about ± 0.15 m of the mean in a typical model projection.
«Many of the events that made 2012 such an interesting year are part of the long - term trends we see in a changing and varying climate — carbon levels are climbing, sea levels are rising, Arctic sea ice is melting, and our planet as a whole is becoming a warmer place,» said Acting NOAA Administrator Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D. «This annual report is well - researched, well - respected, and well - used; it is a superb example of the timely, actionable climate information that people need from NOAA to help prepare for extremes in our ever - changing environment.»
Tolstoy attributes this not only to the varying sea level, but to closely related changes in earth's orbit.
While sea level has varied greatly in the past, it has generally changed slowly, over many thousands of years — except when ice sheets collapse.
We have this stall in temperature rise; we have the failure of all the models to predict results across all latitudes at once; we have sea level changes that don't match the predicted results; we have wildly varying predictions from different models indicating fundamental disagreement among the AGW hypothesis proponents.
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