Sentences with phrase «also smaller glaciers»

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However, it is often overlooked that the major ice shelves in the Ross and Weddell Seas and the many smaller shelves and ice tongues buttressing outlet glaciers are also vulnerable to atmospheric warming.»

However, if as a consequence of shortening, the glaciers are also flowing faster, then we would be seeing another (small) contribution to sea level rise.

Surely this is contradicted by Thompson finding evidence that tropical Andean glaciers were also smaller then?

Greenland ice stream acceleration: e.g., Rignot and Kanagaratnam (2006), also, small earthquakes in Greenland, caused by sliding glaciers, had become twice as frequent: Ekström et al. (2006).

The melting of small glaciers also poses problems.

That also means that the glaciers would been significantly smaller earlier in the Holocene than they are now.

Notably, most of the world's glaciers are also getting smaller — except for a few stubborn ones, such as in the Karakoram area of the Himalaya.

At the same time, Greenland's glaciers were also smaller, though they persisted because of snowfall generated from the ocean.

Indeed, working with predictions for future temperature increases and glacier melt rates generated by ten separate global climate models — all of which are also used by the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change - the team have concluded that these smaller ice sources will contribute around 12 centimetres to world sea - level increases over the remainder of the century, with this likely to have catastrophic consequences for numerous natural habitats as well as for hundreds of thousands of people.