Sentences with phrase «directly contribute to sea level rise»

The Arctic has a lot of floating sea ice, and it is in the news a lot because it is decreasing dramatically, but sea ice loss in the Arctic does not directly contribute to sea level rise.

This pollution directly contributes to sea level rise, more frequent and intense heat waves, and other costly impacts.

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Melting of ice shelves does not directly contribute to sea - level rise, but instead they hold back water frozen in the larger ice sheet that will cause sea levels to rise.

Melting and weakening in Antarctica occurs mostly at the margins and not in the interior, and what interior melting occurs, refreezes before it can contribute to sea level rise, while melting and weakening on the edge of the continent, contributes directly and immediately to sea level rise.

The drifting ice on the ocean does not directly contribute to rising sea levels due to the volume of water it already displaced equal to its own weight.