Sentences with phrase «climatic time lag»

In fact, the climatic time lag may be pushing Earth closer to a catastrophic glacial melting, scientists warn.

Not exact matches

The negative correlation between temperature and CO2 in ice cores does not prove that low CO2 causes climatic cooling and high CO2 would cause warming including a time lag of 500-1000 years.

Because glaciers move slowly, however, a time lag can occur between the changing climatic conditions and the resulting glacier advance or retreat.