Sentences with phrase «as glaciers»

Guardian: Fears rise of huge outburst flooding in the Himalayas as glaciers melt due to climate change.

As glaciers retreat, Demuth said the resilience is reduced, affecting both natural systems such as the way ecosystems function and human systems such as irrigation, hydropower and water for mining projects.

But as the glaciers continue shrinking, trouble almost certainly looms.

As glaciers melt and oceans rise, for example, storm surges are likely to be higher.

Two decades ago, the Greenland ice sheet was in approximate balance - ice loss at the edges as glaciers calved into the ocean was balanced by ice gain in the interior from increased snowfall.

Will the glaciers in Tibet be gone at about the same time as the glaciers in Nepal?

Over long periods, glacial response to climate change becomes obvious as glaciers retreat and, in some cases, disappear.

We all know warmer temperatures have led to shrinking glaciers, and now two more of Glacier National Park's ice fields are too small to be classified as glaciers, according to a recent article on msnbc.com.

Hanibals famous trek across the Alps to attack Rome was not carried out in snow and blizzards as he was able to cross the high alps as the glaciers - where they existed at all - were at a far greater height than now.

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It is my belief that AGW denialism will be rendered ridiculous in the public mind within 10 to 15 years as glaciers melt and the North Pole becomes icefree in September.

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They define half of the world's ice sheets as glaciers.

Mass balance has continued to decline even as the glaciers have retreated.

As the glaciers start to shrink from their southern extremities, their white tops reflect less sunlight back into space.

Most regions of BC will probably be warmer, sea levels will rise, and fresh drinking water may be harder to find as glaciers disappear.

Most regions of British Columbia will probably be warmer, sea levels will rise, and fresh drinking water may be harder to find as glaciers disappear.

«As the glaciers retreat, they can not escape the reach of the ocean, and the warm water will keep melting them even more rapidly,» NASA said in a release.

There are fewer lakes than in the eastern Himalayas, but large lakes may be a growing phenomenon as glaciers thin and tend to stagnate.

The data revealed that as glaciers flow faster, they stretch out and thin, which reduces their weight and lifts them farther off the bedrock.

It's odd how the hockey stick sails serenely on with little deviation in temperature as the glaciers advance and retreat around it

As the glaciers of the Himalayas melts, there will be severe floods in the south.

That growth of sea ice could have potentially been caused by the influx of freshwater as glaciers on land melted, or from changes in the winds that whip around the continent (changes that could be linked to warming or the loss of ozone high in the atmosphere).

Sea ice (as well as glaciers and ice sheets) has declined overall since 1970.

The scientists note that the glacial motion during summer is not permanent, as glaciers tend to move more slowly over the winter.

And as glaciers and ice caps in places like Greenland and Antarctica melt, they add water to the ocean.

The main reasons for the rise are thermal expansion due to higher sea water temperatures (warmer water expands) and the added water from melting of land ice, such as glaciers.

Beth the Serf mentions in her newsletter about the very real and well recorded scare of the 1600s, as glaciers advanced to swallow whole communities in Northern Europe.

As far as glaciers are concerned they establish that worldwide glacial retreat began about 1850 ad has accelerated since the second half of the 20th century.

As glaciers across South America gradually vanish from existence, another key, but often underlooked, source of water — lakes — are also under threat.

As the glaciers retreat, the temperature of the Earth rises slowly and the glaciers retreat still faster (as long as the Arctic Ocean remains frozen).

Some of it was clearly preserved from living things on the ice itself, some of was scraped up as the glaciers moved over old soils, and some of it was soot from fossil fuel combustion or distant forest fires.

This short - term increase in runoff is interpreted as the consequence of glacier retreat, but in the long term there will be a reduction in water supply as the glaciers shrink beyond a critical limit (Jansson et al., 2003).

By studying rocky debris piled up during the Little Ice Age and then left behind as the glaciers retreated after 1750 the researchers have been able to chart their progress.

As glaciers melted and retreated since the peak of the last glacial period about 18,000 years ago (Figure 4 - 6, p. 89), the earth's average sea level has risen about 125 meters (410 feet).

23) It is myth that receding glaciers are proof of global warming as glaciers have been receding and growing cyclically for many centuries

So as the glaciers retreat and the body of surviving ice dwindles, some of these reservoirs, too, are at risk.

Islands and continents buoying upward as glaciers melt.

First, more water is released into the ocean as glaciers and land ice melts.

As glaciers retreat, the ground loses its insulation and becomes more vulnerable to the climate.

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As these glaciers retreat due to global warming (see Chapter 1), river flows are increased in the short term, but the contribution of glacier melt will gradually decrease over the next few decades.

As glaciers and snow melt they feed rivers like the Yangtze in Chinaand the Gangesin India.

Sea levels have been creeping up for the past 50 years, as glaciers retreat and icecaps melt, and as oceans expand with increasing atmospheric temperatures.

Few scientists are willing to sound an alarm bell; they move at a glacial pace, even as the glaciers are melting.

Ice shelves serve as a crucial barrier to prevent land - based ice sheets as well as glaciers from melting into oceans and increasing sea levels.

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Furthermore when solar flux dipped between the 1960s and 80s, a high proportion of Alpine glaciers, as well as glaciers around the world, stopped retreating and many began to advance as seen here in the Alps.

And the pace is only increasing in recent years as glaciers melt faster and water temperatures increase, causing oceans to expand.

Unaffected by a slight increase in CO2 concentrations, sea levels began to fall as glaciers began to expand over the past 5000 years, the Neoglacial.