Sentences with phrase «most glaciologists»

Most glaciologists working in the tropics agree that the ice - caps and glaciers are melting at a remarkable rate, and that climate change is responsible.

Most glaciologists have assumed that temperature trends in that region are not big enough to matter in the way that they have mattered on the Antarctic Peninsula, where surface melting has led to ice shelf collapse.

Not exact matches

«CryoSat - 2 gives us a new pair of eyes on what is happening to Earth's ice,» says Robert Bindschadler, a glaciologist and chief scientist at NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md. «The changes in the cryosphere are providing the most unequivocal evidence that we are changing our planet in ways that should concern us all.»

«This was a big event, and it confirms that the long - term speed - up that we're observing for this glacier is probably driven by other factors, most likely in the ocean,» said corresponding author Ben Smith, a glaciologist with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory.

As I read in and around the topic of climate change, one thing that is most compelling to me is that ornithologists, geologists, marine biologists, ichthyologists, oceanographers, glaciologists, physicists, zoologists, primatologists, sailors, fishermen, etc, etc, all working in their own disciplines and professions are coming to the same conclusion that something profound is happening with our climate.

Meanwhile some senior glaciologists and others argued that it was a mistake to concentrate on what seemed most probable.

COLUMBUS — Thirty - six years after catching flak for one of the most bold and dire predictions about global warming, former Ohio State University glaciologist John H. Mercer is being hailed as a visionary.

In retrospect, most oceanographers and glaciologists find that estimate too low and say it fails to adequately take into account data suggesting that mountain glaciers and Greenland's continental ice will melt more quickly than initially predicted.....

Eric Rignot (NASA / JPL) one of the world's most prominent glaciologists, who is behind a landmark report revealing the unstoppable collapse of a large part of Antarctica, gave a lecture at Victoria University of Wellington in February 2017, on future sea level rise.

«Calculations by glaciologists now suggest that by 2050 most of the Himalayan glaciers will have gone and the impact on dry season flow of those great rivers will be dramatic in the extreme.»

What I would like to know is, what do global climate models say about the depth of the warm oceanic layer in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere near the U.S., both under the standard assumptions and under assumptions of greater runoff from Greenland which almost all glaciologists seem to find most likely.

Thomson Reuters named PSC Glaciologist Ian Joughin as one of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2015.