Sentences with phrase «ice rise complex»
Force, mass and energy budgets of the Crary Ice Rise complex, Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, Vol.
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The uncomfortable reality: Outside the basics (more CO2 = warming world = many climate shifts + less ice + rising seas) more research on complex scientific questions often leads to more questions rather than resolving the one at hand.
I would be happy for any real mathematician to solve this complex problem and say exactly, «How much water is needed for a rise of 1 meter and up to the limit of the BS that gets said, and «where all the water is going to come from» all I wanted to do was to point out that all the talk about rises of 20 meters is such BS, as the water does not exist to do that, me I think that if all the ice did melt then you would be lucky to get a 1 meter rise, no one would be more thrilled than me if this math was worked out better than I can do it.
A different approach (Mitrovica et al, Nature 409:1026, (2001)-RRB- suggests melting of the Greenland ice complex over the last century has already contributed the equivalent of 0.6 mm per year of sea - level rise.
«While the melting of Antarctic ice shelves is contributing to rising sea levels and other climate change dynamics in complex ways, this additional role of removing carbon from the atmosphere may have implications for global climate models that need to be further studied,»
Presenting such alternative figures confuses and undermines the public understanding of the actual science, which is an understanding about the driving mechanisms of sea level rise: thermal expansion of ocean water, melting of mountain glaciers and complex dynamics of large ice sheets — in correspondence again with projected temperature rise, that is in turn a product of projected rises of greenhouse gas concentrations using calculated estimates of climate sensitivity, together creating a net disturbance in Earth's energy balance, the very root cause of anthropogenic climate change.
Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, has pieced together a complex computer model that helps explain why Antarctic sea ice is expanding even with signs that ocean and air temperatures are on the rise.