Sentences with phrase «about glaciers in»

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.»

«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:

Even if you claim that is a result rather a cause of falling temperatures, the fact that it is rising quickly means you don't have to worry about glaciers in London or New York quite just yet.

Dr. Dambaru Ballab Kattel was interviewed by representative from Telegraph Nepal about the Glaciers in this mountain countries and what is his reading about glacial related phenomena.

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

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

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In The Christian Century for October 6, 1971, I hazarded some guesses about «The Shape of the Coming Renewal,» suggesting that the growing awakening among young people was only the leading edge of a glacier that would continue to move in steadily until it dominated the American ecclesiastical landscapIn The Christian Century for October 6, 1971, I hazarded some guesses about «The Shape of the Coming Renewal,» suggesting that the growing awakening among young people was only the leading edge of a glacier that would continue to move in steadily until it dominated the American ecclesiastical landscapin steadily until it dominated the American ecclesiastical landscape.

Bass notes that one theory about the origin of glaciers is that they are «the result of a wobble, a hitch, in the earth's rotation....

I had forgotten all about dinosaurs, the Ice Age, Adam and Eve and glaciers until I went to visit my old summer camp, the International Teen Camp at the Ecole Nouvelle in Chailly, Lausanne.

His session allowed him to talk about how human climate change in national parks is melting glaciers, raising sea level, killing trees, and causing other impacts.

Natural shifts in ocean currents could account for about half the melting of Alpine glaciers in this decade, Matthias Huss and colleagues at the University of Fribourg reported in June.

If global warming melts the world's glaciers and raises sea levels, the first to know about it will be the citizens of the Maldives, a low - lying chain of island atolls in the Indian Ocean.

It is doing so because it is concerned about its environment: the air quality in its cities, the water it is dependent on from the melting glaciers of the Himalayas.

THE jewel - coloured hole in the glacier is just about big enough for me to fall into.

The study fuels a growing concern among scientists about the factors affecting the Antarctic ice sheet — namely, that warm ocean waters are helping to melt glaciers and drive greater levels of ice loss, particularly in West Antarctica.

He agreed that overstatements about the impacts are rampant in the Himalayas as well, saying, «The idea that 1.4 billion people are going to be without water when the glaciers melt is just not the case.

Melting of glaciers and the massive ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica will combine for a rise in sea levels of 25 meters, or about 80 feet.

Before the 20th century, the fastest rate of glacier retreat reflected in the core was about 8,500 years ago, at a time when the Earth's position relative to the sun resulted in more summer sunlight in the Arctic.

They also used standard radiometric techniques to date stalagmites from Eagle Cave, which gave them information about fluxes in precipitation during the time the glaciers covered the land.

Now Bartholomaus and his team are investigating what happens when this advancing glacier meets the ocean in a region where about 54 glaciers empty into the sea.

The glaciers expanded in bursts, advancing quickly, retreating briefly, and then expanding farther — until about 100 years ago, according to the study.

Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.

If the majority of the phosphorus found in meltwater from all of Greenland's glaciers reaches the sea, it would be equal to about 400,000 metric tons (440,000 U.S. tons) per year of phosphorus, more than Arctic rivers are estimated to contribute to the Arctic Ocean, according to the new study.

IPCC faces more criticism from politicians than ever: In the wake of the revelations about the Himalayan glaciers data, the U.K. director of Greenpeace called for Pachauri to step down; so has Senator John Barrasso (R - WY) and others.

• A Stone Age Murder Mystery In the decade since a 5,300 - year - old freeze - dried body was pulled from a melting glacier in Austria, theories have been advanced about the cause of deatIn the decade since a 5,300 - year - old freeze - dried body was pulled from a melting glacier in Austria, theories have been advanced about the cause of deatin Austria, theories have been advanced about the cause of death.

She recently worked with a biologist in Washington, for example, on a paper about how narwhals use glacial fronts in summertime — the tusked marine mammals appear to be attracted to glaciers with thick ice fronts and freshwater melt that's low in silt, though it's not yet clear why.

Jakobshavn Glacier is of interest because it is the fastest - moving glacier in the world and drains about 7.5 percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

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.

They found that the area of the Bolivian Andes covered by glaciers decreased from about 530 square kilometres in 1986 to only around 300 square kilometres in 2014, a reduction of 43 %.

What this finding about Lake Hazen is telling us is that there can also be pretty substantial impacts in terrestrial aquatic ecosystems that are directly connected to the glaciers.

«If you haven't had proximity to these glaciers, if you haven't thought about where water comes from, it would be easy to understate or underestimate the implications of glacial ice loss in a state that has predominantly a semi-desert climate and certainly by contemporary climate models is going to be pretty significantly impacted by climate change,» said Jacki Klancher, a professor of environmental science at Central Wyoming College.

In the study, the team also estimated that glacier area will be severely reduced by the end of the century, to about a tenth of the 1986 values.

The team hope the study raises awareness about the rapid glacier loss in Bolivia, how it could change in the future, and how it could affect water supply and cause glacial lake outburst floods.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

The calving front of the glacier is now located in a deeper area of the fjord, where the underlying rock bed is about 1300 metres below sea level, which the scientists say explains the record speeds it has achieved.

More than 100 glaciers cover about 10,000 acres in the Wind River Range, according to a recent study by researchers at Portland State University.

Within a single day, as a crack in the glacier shortened, the researchers discovered that the spectral peak produced by water passing through that crack rose from 120 hertz to a frequency of about 180 hertz.

Meanwhile, the increasingly unstable glaciers in West Antarctica remain some of scientists» biggest concerns about future sea - evel rise.

«Accelerated glacier melting in West Antarctica documented: Study findings will help improve predictions about global sea level rise.»

Co-author Dr Ivan Haigh, lecturer in coastal oceanography at the University of Southampton and also based at NOCS, adds: «Historical observations show a rising sea level from about 1800 as sea water warmed up and melt water from glaciers and ice fields flowed into the oceans.

In addition, this same question could be asked about the valley glaciers in Alaska and elsewherIn addition, this same question could be asked about the valley glaciers in Alaska and elsewherin Alaska and elsewhere.

All of that adds up to about 5,500 glaciers in the region disappearing over the rest of the century.

In 1950s only the most northerly glaciers appeared to be retreating, but a transition from advance to retreat appeared to move down the Antarctic Peninsula over a period of about 10 to 20 years, broadly in line with what we would expect if this was a consequence of the warming that has been measured in this areIn 1950s only the most northerly glaciers appeared to be retreating, but a transition from advance to retreat appeared to move down the Antarctic Peninsula over a period of about 10 to 20 years, broadly in line with what we would expect if this was a consequence of the warming that has been measured in this arein line with what we would expect if this was a consequence of the warming that has been measured in this arein this area.

About 717 million years ago, the whole Earth was covered in ice glaciers, and we are not sure what caused it.

The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland, for example, doubled its speed in six years to about 12 km per year.

It is noteworthy that whereas ice melt from glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets is very important in the sea level budget (contributing about 40 %), the energy associated with ice melt contributes only about 1 % to the Earth's energy budget.

The endeavor becomes more scientifically challenging in light of the large variety of information sources about past climate, including tree rings, coral, glacier ice, and marine and lake sediments, not to mention the complicated array of data that are used to establish the timelines that underlie the paleoclimate records.

A study published in the Annals of Glaciology last month adds to the pile of crap news about how these glaciers, which extend out over water that's being warmed by climate change, are susceptible to melting...

A study published in the Annals of Glaciology last month adds to the pile of crap news about how these glaciers, which extend out over water that's being warmed by climate change, are susceptible to melting that could screw the world's coasts.

They found signs that ocean water is pushing miles deeper under the ice than we realized in near a location where both glaciers meet, raising some uncomfortable prospects about how their futures could be intertwined.