Sentences with phrase «findings about the glaciers»

Both Polyakov and Vinje help confirm findings about glaciers, which tell us that Earth's melting ice trend operates on a millennium scale, driven by millennium - scale forces other than carbon dioxide (CO2), and driven concurrently by natural climate cycles that dominate carbon - dioxide forcing of temperature.

IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri even reportedly referred to a November Indian government report that questioned the IPCC's findings about the glaciers» vulnerability as «voodoo science.»

Not exact matches

If the majority of the phosphorus found in meltwater from all of Greenland's glaciers reaches the sea, it would be equal to about 400,000 metric tons (440,000 U.S. tons) per year of phosphorus, more than Arctic rivers are estimated to contribute to the Arctic Ocean, according to the new study.

A number of facts have been scientifically proven about the glacier mummy, known as «the Iceman» or «Ötzi,» found in the Ötztal Alps (South Tyrol) in 1991.

They found that the area of the Bolivian Andes covered by glaciers decreased from about 530 square kilometres in 1986 to only around 300 square kilometres in 2014, a reduction of 43 %.

What this finding about Lake Hazen is telling us is that there can also be pretty substantial impacts in terrestrial aquatic ecosystems that are directly connected to the glaciers.

«Accelerated glacier melting in West Antarctica documented: Study findings will help improve predictions about global sea level rise.»

Head and his team examined high - resolution images of the crater and its gullies taken by orbiting spacecraft and found evidence of features that suggested glaciers once covered the crater floor about 10 million to 20 million years ago.

[Response: You'll find pointless quibbling about the glacier stuff from skeptics, including plenty who question the reality of the warming, not just its cause.

The new research found that the glacier actually began to re-advance to almost its ice - age size about 15,400 years ago.

They found signs that ocean water is pushing miles deeper under the ice than we realized in near a location where both glaciers meet, raising some uncomfortable prospects about how their futures could be intertwined.

CURWOOD: Now, what was John Muir finding to be so capitivating about these glaciers in Alaska do you think?

Hello, slightly offtopic here, but recently there were press reports about findings of very fast and extended glacier retreats in the Swiss Mountains several times during the last 7 or so millennia.

[Response: You'll find pointless quibbling about the glacier stuff from skeptics, including plenty who question the reality of the warming, not just its cause.

It's the same dodge used by people who find one glacier out of hundreds that's growing instead of receding and smugly conclude that global warming is therefore nothing to worry about.

Given all the oversimplified assertions over the years about Himalayan glaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Securityglaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water SecurityGlaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.»

The UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) are getting ready to deploy about 100 scientists to the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica as part of a five - year study to find out how fast it is melting.

The study, which examined about half of the Andean glaciers, found that the phenomenon was more strongly pronounced among smaller, lower altitude glaciers, which it said could vanish altogether within decades or even years.

I am sure you will find a more natural solution of this flow of water from glaciers — estimated not less than 3000 feet thick — in the suggestion first made by Professor James Thomson, and subsequently proved by his brother, Professor W. Thomson, that the freezing point of water is lowered by the effect of pressure 0.23 ° Fahr., or about a quarter of a degree for each additional atmosphere of pressure.

«We find that the access of warm water to the glaciers and ice shelves in this region are almost controlled by a depth of about 700 meters [2,300 feet], which is just right above some of the warmest waters in the region,» said Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at UCI and co-author of the new study.

A glacier the size of California in East Antarctica is in danger of melting away, which could lead to an extreme thaw increases sea levels by about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) worldwide if the glacier vanishes, a new study finds.

The stuff about a billion people (2 billion if you're Tim Flannery or Bill McKibben or Wetlands International; 3 - 4 billion if you're the Worldwatch Institute) relying on Asian glacier meltwater was knocked down long ago, so all the paper says is that a lesser — but still serious — problem will arrive later than thought and that proper scientists are doing proper stuff to find out exactly what's going on.

Climate scientists had refused to reveal their data or show their workings, and several alarming claims about climate change, such as the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers, were found to be groundless.

In project syndicate's article by Bjørn Lomborg we find: «For sea - level rise, the IPCC now includes modeling of glacier responses of 3 - 20 centimeters, leading to a higher total estimate of 40 - 62 cm by century's end — much lower than the exaggerated and scary figure of 1 - 2 meters of sea - level rise that many environmental activists, and even some media outlets, bandy about.»

They find that all of the glaciers receded over the 1952 - 2005 period with an average loss in surface area of about 0.19 % per year.

Researchers from two British universities and a Bolivian colleague examined NASA satellite images of the region and found that the area of the Bolivia Cordillera Oriental normally covered by glaciers fell from 530 square kilometres in 1986 to about 300 sq km in 2014 − a shrinkage of more than two - fifths.

The authors found that half of the studied glaciers in the Karakoram region are stable or advancing, whereas about two - thirds are in retreat elsewhere throughout High Asia.

Only 25 glaciers bigger than 25 acres are now found in Montana's Glacier National Park, where about 150 glaciers were once found, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Geologist Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster found the deceptively fresh and intact tree stumps beside the retreating glaciers of Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 40 miles (60 km) north of Vancouver, British Columbia.

When asked about the retreat of Alpine glaciers, he says, «What do they find when the ice sheets retreat, in the Alps?