Sentences with phrase «about ice sheet instability»
The question of when does this start is not really addressed in this paper that I can find, and has been addressed only peripherally in most of the papers about ice sheet instability that I have seen.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
A recent high - profile article stirred debate about the threat of a process known as marine ice - sheet instability in the Antarctic.
The new projections reflect the growing body of research about the different modes of ice - sheet instability.
One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.
One does not have to worry about instabilities associated with ice sheets, feedback from the carbon cycle (even though this would seem to already be coming into play), or instabilities associated with ocean circulation.
When one couples the plausibility of underground heat causing instability in one region with the old newspaper articles about fears of ice sheet collapse from 100 years ago, at a minimum a reasonable person should wonder what has really been going on for many centuries.
On May 12, two studies were released that sounded the alarm about the instability of parts of the Antarctic ice sheet.
One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.
Significant short - term (decades to century - scale) temperature and sea levels fluctuations (several degrees and many meters) during the last ice age (about 110 — 15 thousand years ago) imply great instability of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets.
In May of last year, two studies were released that sounded the alarm about the instability of parts of the Antarctic ice sheet.