Sentences with phrase «about ice shelf collapse»

Scientists have become growingly concerned about ice shelf collapse, and in 2016, they proposed a new rule allowing for special study areas following collapse or massive calving events.

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«Basically we know very little to nothing about what lives underneath them, and the only places we have a glimpse of this is at a couple of the smaller ice shelves that have collapsed,» Griffiths told OurAmazingPlanet.

The planet as a whole has heated up by about 1.3 °F since 1900, but on the peninsula, it has shot up by a whopping 5 ° in just 50 years, forcing massive ice shelves to disintegrate and penguin colonies to collapse.

The George VI Ice Shelf collapsed about 9000 years ago but reformed 7000 years ago and that shelf still persists today.

Yet, since on rare occasion they have not seen it because it is so obvious it is worth asking about and one might even learn something Worse, in Eli's case, this is something that finally percolated through because of nonsense that Andrew Montford at Bishop Hill wrote trying to handwave the weird ice coverage this winter up north (yes, Eli knows everybunny and his brother in law is racing south to watch the Antarctic ice shelves collapse, but this is Rabett Run, Eli and Brian follow their own pipers).

How about the ongoing collapse of Antarctic ice shelfs?

In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed; in 2003, the World Glacial Monitoring Service reported that «The recent increase in the rates of ice loss over reduced glacier surface areas as compared with earlier losses related to larger surface areas (cf. the thorough revision of available data by Dyurgerov, 2002) becomes even more pronounced and leaves no doubt about the accelerating change in climatic conditions.»