Sentences with phrase «causing polar ice caps»

Global warming would also cause the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers to melt rapidly.

What are your thoughts on what caused the polar ice caps to melt or grow during the past 500 million years?

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On top of all this, all electric power generation produces heat, and too much generation will raise the earth's temperature, possibly enough to cause partial melting of the polar ice caps and wreak havoc on the world's ecosphere.

Global warming caused the melting of the northern polar ice cap, and tropical storms ravage all areas that didn't suffer from desertification.

Sea level rise is caused by the melting of polar ice caps and the expansion of water when it is warmed, both triggered by global warming.

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

This would trigger a greenhouse effect, warming the atmosphere further and causing the water ice in the polar caps to melt.

This snowpack accumulation near the poles, which gets its water via the Arctic and Antarctic oceans, that in turn rob it from equatorial latitudes of our oceans, also results in a reduction in the earth's spin axis moment of inertia and causes the spin rate to increase as evidenced in the recent history of the rate at which Leap Seconds are added to our calendar (see Wysmuller's Toucan Equation for more on this evidence that during this warm time with much greater polar humidity, earlier seasonal, later seasonal and heavier snows are beginning to move water vapor from the oceans to the poles to re-build the polar ice caps and lead us into a global cooling, while man - made CO2 continues to increase http://www.colderside.com/faq.htm).

Global warming leads to rising temperatures of the oceans and the earth» surface causing melting of polar ice caps, rise in sea levels and also unnatural patterns of precipitation such as flash floods, excessive snow or desertification.

Therein, Pope Francis echoed President Obama's tune, claiming there exists «solid scientific consensus» that human activities are causing a «disturbing warming» of the climate, which left unchecked will result in a type of planetary Armageddon manifested by escalating temperatures, melting polar ice caps, rising seas, more frequent and more severe weather, ecosystem degradation, and plant and animal extinctions, all of which he claimed will severely affect humanity.

They say this will cause melting at the polar ice caps, sea levels to rise and weather patterns to change bringing floods, famines and violent storms, putting millions of lives at risk.

But it won't melt the polar ice caps, and kill the forests, and turn the world's most productive croplands to deserts, and acidify the oceans, and cause the mass extinction of most life on Earth.

Melting polar ice caps will cause the sea level in Mangalore, officially known as Mangaluru, to rise by 14.60 cm by then, while Mumbai, one of the world's most populous mega cities with more than 10 million inhabitants, will witness its sea rising by 13.95 cm.

If global warming could melt the polar ice caps and thus cause global flooding by 1976, the alarm should come from the aforementioned sources.