Sentences with phrase «big effect on sea level»

Sea ice doesn't have a big effect on sea level — it grows and melts seasonally.

Not exact matches

Unsurprisingly the biggest seasonal effects on sea level came during the fall and winter months, when El Niño events typically reach their peak.

With respect to of glacier loss outside of the Greenland and Antarctica, the biggest worry is not so much the effect on sea level (although they too will affect sea level), but more seriously, the severe permanent droughts that will result.

But if you're saying that the effect of global warming on moisture is as if sea level rise initially only affected the wave peaks, and it takes a very long time for the troughs to catch up, and therefore the waves * would * get bigger if the seas rose fast enough, then maybe.

The biggest area of marine ice in the east is likely to be released despite the cold air temperatures, confirming the worries about the effect of melting Antarctic ice on global sea levels.

Not only that, but if rising CO2 levels were responsible for the decline of sea ice and implied effects on polar bears since 1979 (when CO2 levels were around 340 ppm), why has spring ice extent been so variable since 1989 (when the first big decline occurred) but so little changed overall since then?

If relatively small changes in CO2 levels have big effects — meaning that we live in a more sensitive climate system — the planet could warm by as much as 6 degrees Celsius on average with attendant results such as changed weather patterns and sea - level rise.