Sentences with phrase «about glaciers»

These days, there is a lot of talk about the glaciers melting due to global warming.

One was talking about glaciers melting, another about tropical forests in trouble.

I don't personally care much about the glaciers but I want fuel for my car and electricity to come out of the wall socket.

I think you came up with a great activity to teach the kids about glaciers.

The answers could turn the conventional wisdom about glacier melt on its head.

The report is − at least, in theory − more hopeful about glaciers.

That's a lot faster than anything occurring now so I don't understand the argument about glaciers.

So don't worry too much about the glaciers, they'll be back someday.

By Steve Everly The story behind the IPCC director's involvement in winning huge grants to study the impacts of a debunked claim about glaciers melting in the Himalayas had another layer added today when the Times Online (U.K.) reported that he knew about the bogus claim before announcing his latest award to study it.

«Lost amid the news coverage of Copenhagen and Climategate was the assertion that one of the more attention - grabbing statements [about glaciers in the Himalayas] of the IPCC AR4 was flat - out wrong» - Houston Chronicle containing other links:

[Response: You'll find pointless quibbling about the glacier stuff from skeptics, including plenty who question the reality of the warming, not just its cause.

All my preconceptions were shattered once I recognized that I knew absolutely nothing about glaciers.

«There is a pattern» of stuff that is at least irksome to Joe Sixpack even though he doesn't care about glaciers, the Arctic ocean, etc..

Satellite data about glaciers are not detailed enough for accurate estimates.

And some of those rocks, left behind by long - ago glaciers, also contain clues about the glaciers from whence they came.

A number of facts have been scientifically proven about the glacier mummy, known as «the Iceman» or «Ötzi,» found in the Ötztal Alps (South Tyrol) in 1991.

Last week, Franz's students were learning about glaciers.

You hear things all of the time about how the glaciers are melting, global warming, polar bears floating away on icebergs — and all the other buzzwords about glaciers — but I never really took the time to look up the definition of a glacier.

«Instead of the kids reading about a glacier and how a glacier is formed and why the color of the ice on the glacier is different, we actually visited the glacier.

Instead of a teacher in front of a classroom we had a guide giving us a lecture about glaciers,» Theresa Stevens said.

CURWOOD: Now, what was John Muir finding to be so capitivating about these glaciers in Alaska do you think?

Contact: Michele Citterio (GEUS) for questions about the glacier outlines or Paul Morin (UMinn.)

Chris Dudley (21, 40)-- Based on some limited knowledge about glaciers and ice sheets, I am of the fairly firm opinion that nothing above 300 ppm CO2e preserves a «safe» climate, in the long run.

The official, Jean - Pascal van Ypersele, a vice chairman of the climate change panel, said that a glaciologist, Georg Kaser at the University of Innsbruck, in Austria, had sought to correct the information about the glaciers before it was published by the panel but that the correction came too late and never reached the people who could fix the statement.

Usually there's nothing extraordinary about a glacier calving, said glaciologist Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado.

There is nothing in the Working Group I report that supports the Working Group II claims about the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers by 2035; or to support the other assertion about the glaciers declining from 500,000 to 100,000 km2 by the year 2035.

The discovery comes just a week after a prediction about glaciers in the Himalayas proved wrong.

™ to clear up the misunderstandings about glaciers.

Lal himself admits he knows little about glaciers.

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr. Georg Kaser — Mountain Glaciers This video sees Pam Pearson and Dr. Georg Kaser about glaciers and their slow decline over many years.

Endless stories about glaciers melting, polar bears, ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and sea ice form the view that there is virtually no ice left on the surface of the planet.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said it best: «This isn't just about glaciers and polar bears.

The measurements are sparse, and we have to interpolate, that is, make plausible guesses about the glaciers we can't measure.

It wasn't «denier's at the IPCC who made too much of the Hockey Stick graph, or who inserted the claims about glacier losses and African rain and crop yield.

How dare they talk about glaciers in the 1850's (um, see Skeptical Science), or that «impacts claimed by the IPCC to be likely in the distant future are claimed to be already evident.»

The mistaken claim about the glaciers — that they could disappear by 2035 — «never really came to my attention» before the end of last year, Dr Pachauri maintains, though the opportunities for it to have done so were numerous.

IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri even reportedly referred to a November Indian government report that questioned the IPCC's findings about the glaciers» vulnerability as «voodoo science.»

34 ~ 80 % of world's water supply Rapidly retreating worldwide Glaciers and ice caps gone by 2100 or sooner Major ice sheets also retreating 1941 2004 Who cares about glaciers?

Q: There is a view which feels that you knew about the glacier melting and of your claims at IPCC melting away before Copenhagen.

Eight page booklet: define glacier keywords; map skills page to locate and name glacial areas around the World; SPAG exercise about the glaciers on Mars; page to compare advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the glacial landscape of the Lake District; moral dilemma about whether people in the UK should be concerned with the melting of Himalayan glaciers; research page about glaciers in World cultures; and finally a page about Ötzi the Iceman and how his body was analysed by archaeologists