Sentences with phrase «forces glacial retreat»
Increased snowfall advances a glacier's extent, while increased melting forces glacial retreat.
https://nsidc.org/ Not exact matches
More information: Jonathan L. Baker et al, Holocene warming in western continental Eurasia driven by glacial retreat and greenhouse forcing, Nature Geoscience (2017).
In any case, you need to explain why most glacial retreat (where records are available) began about 1850, well before C02 could be considered a dominant climate forcing.
There is no rule that one and only one forcing will govern glacial retreat.