Sentences with phrase «collapsing ice caps»

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Destroy the floating ice and the ice cap (which holds enough water to raise sea levels by 200 feet) would collapse unimpeded into the sea.

One potential problem is that the atmosphere may condense into large ice caps on the frigid night side of these planets, which could result in total atmosphere collapse and the loss of habitable conditions.

According to Mr. Gore the polar ice caps will collapse and melt and sea levels will rise 20 feet inundating the coastal cities making 100 million of us refugees.

I am confident that if the ice caps begin to collapse in earnest, economic theory will shift around to assert that we should not have put our descendants at risk in the way we are now doing.

Explosions don't make smooth - bored holes like that but collapsed pingos do, possibly with gas - pressure driven ejection of material upon melting of the pingo ice cap.

In that scenario, Greenland's ice cap will likely collapse, and the resulting sea - level rise will wash away any low - lying island nations that are still around.

«Ice caps are collapsing faster and faster in recent years,» says Portnov.

If we get a big Arctic ice cap collapse this year, then next year (a likely El Nino year) will see some extraordinary weather in the NH.

Similarly, when everyone realises the ice caps still exist and are bigger than normal after years of obvious lies, the whole house of cards will collapse.

Warming seas around the edge of Antarctica might erode the ice - cap from below and cause it to collapse into the ocean.