Sentences with word «glacial»

If CO2 caused the warming, then why didn't it stop the last glacial period from happening?

I also agree that its hard to understand how people can claim to derive accurate sensitivity estimates for the last glacial maximum for example, given the large uncertainties.

Rising water levels in glacial lakes can lead to catastrophic floods.

What lessons can we learn from the past history of glacial ice melt and sea - level rise about what will happen in the next century as the climate warms?

For places that rely on glacial melt for household and irrigation use, this is not good news.

The major problem with the game, though, is that it suffers from absolutely glacial pacing.

: the fact that the ocean was colder during glacial periods by itself explains only about 10 % of the CO2 change.

And according to scientists who have 800,000 years of carbon records derived from glacial ice core samples, there is a strong link between earth temperatures and increased carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.

Then it will go at glacial speed as all risks are assessed and the minute details worked through.

There's also an accelerating trend of glacial retreat on the continent.

They're super soft and made with clear energy & glacial water.

Walk through forests, cycle past waterfalls or picnic by glacial lakes.

More research, however, is needed before the exact relationship between glacial melting and warmer currents is understood.

High levels of oxygen likely accumulated in the lake over millions of years as glacial ice melted, injecting trapped gases from air bubbles into its waters.

However, until now, it was thought that the glaciers were only affected by events in the northern hemisphere, based on the dating of past glacial advances.

The following is justification as to why there is a real concern with a sudden start to the next glacial cycle.

This map shows the pace of glacial flow between 1996 and 2008.

Could such variations occur not only in glacial times, but also in warm periods like the present?

Temperature rise rates during 1970 - 2003 have exceeded those of the last glacial termination by an order of magnitude.

The peaks appear about every 100,000 years, with the last one at 20,000 years ago — culmination of the last glacial age.

This unpleasant fact undermines efforts to relate glacial history to proxy data like lake - level history, which are sensitive only to annual means.

A paper came out in today's Nature about glacial melting and its contribution to sea level rise.

The hikes offered a range of scenery from rain forest to glacial valleys to snow - capped mountains.

Since big companies move with glacial speed, I have no belief that this problem will be fixed soon.

A number of researchers have argued that this «post glacial rebound» is relatively slow, and is still taking place today.

This is likely to have contributed to the spike in warmth in 1940, but there is insufficient BC in glacial records at that time for it to be the primary explanation.

The valley was formed by volcanic and glacial forces over 10 million years ago.

Lesson Objective: To investigate the impact of climate change on named glacial environments.

For the most recent glacial periods ice cores provide climate proxies from their ice, and atmospheric samples from included bubbles of air.

The last glacial transition for instance — leading to wild fluctuations in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere not captured by the ice records.

Experience volcanic formations, glacial landscapes, giant waterfalls and more.

[1] Changes in sea level since the end of the last glacial episode.

The movement of these large masses of ice also leaves distinct marks on the walls of valleys and in the form of deposits of glacial sediment.

Over the course of a full glacial cycling, CO2 typically only goes through a similar change, 1/2 a doubling.