Sentences with phrase «from glaciers around the world»

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Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»

This unique landscape attracts researchers from around the world to study microbe evolution, scars of geological disasters and even how glaciers behaved on Mars.

My adventurous nature and inability to say «no» have led me to some pretty amazing adventures around the world, from swimming with sharks in Belize to hiking on glaciers in New Zealand to playing a concert on the Great Wall of China.

Phillips Cruises and Tours near Anchorage, AK offers award - winning glacier cruises to Alaska residents and visitors from around the world.

offers award - winning glacier cruises to Alaska residents and visitors from around the world.

During the two - month run of the show, the glacier accepted thousands of calls from around the world, expelling its own language of snaps, crackles, and plops while slowly melting.

In a previous post entitled Worldwide Glacier Retreat, we highlighted the results of a study by J. Oerlemans, who compiled glacier data from around the world and used them to estimate temperature change over the last ~ 400 years.

Ice cores retrieved from shrinking glaciers around the world confirm their continuous existence for periods ranging from hundreds of years to multiple millennia, suggesting that climatological conditions that dominate those regions today are different from those under which these ice fields originally accumulated and have been sustained.

Thomas (1993), p. 398; Oerlemans (1994); Dyurgerov and Meier (2000); Oerlemans (2005) surveyed glacier records around the world and found that «for the period from 1900 to 1980, 142 of the 144 glaciers retreated»; see review by Alley et al. (2005).

Besides these thousands of thermometer readings from weather stations around the world, there are many other clear indicators of global warming such as rising ocean temperatures, sea level, and atmospheric humidity, and declining snow cover, glacier mass, and sea ice.

It notes that: 80 % of carbon dioxide emissions come from only 19 countries; the amount of carbon dioxide per US$ 1 GDP has dropped by 23 % since 1992, indicating some decoupling of economic growth from resource use; nearly all mountain glaciers around the world are retreating and getting thinner; and sea levels have been rising at an average rate of about 2.5 mm per year since 1992.

Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000 - year - old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of heat - trapping «greenhouse» gases from smokestacks and tailpipes.

The findings suggest that future reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should have stronger conclusions around how human - caused climate change is affecting the world's glaciers, the researchers say.

The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) collects annual mass balance data from alpine glaciers around the wWorld Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) collects annual mass balance data from alpine glaciers around the worldworld.

«Change in average length of all glaciers around the world Credit: Figure adapted from Oerlemans, 2005»

«Valeri Kursk says: July 31, 2012 at 3:32 am If there is a US flag in moon I believe they were there.If the Ice melts from Arctic Ocean and Greenland and glaciers are vanishing around the world I believe that is happening.

If there is a US flag in moon I believe they were there.If the Ice melts from Arctic Ocean and Greenland and glaciers are vanishing around the world I believe that is happening.

What I love about this book is that it presents all the evidence — evidence from flowers, butterflies, birds, frogs, trees, glaciers and much more gathered by scientists around the world.

Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbræ glacier became known around the world in 2002, when its accelerated shrinking and massive breakup into the ocean helped raise awareness of the faster - than - expected pace of impacts from global warming.

Audiences will also hear from scientists located around the world at the Petermann Glacier in the Arctic, the melting glaciers in the Himalayas, and in the Indonesian rainforest.

These methods include inference of surface temperature change from vertical temperature profiles in the ground (bore holes) at many sites around the world, rate of glacier retreat at many locations, and studies by several groups of the effect of urban and other local human influences on the global temperature record.