Sentences with phrase «glacier around the world»

The melting of glaciers around the world is one of the hardest to ignore impacts of climate change (unless you don't believe your eyes).

It has always seemed to me that the retreat of mountain glaciers around the world is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for global warming.

The warming has melted glaciers around the world and has altered the behavior of many animals.

The researchers hope their findings will feed into future IPCC reports, strengthening the panel's conclusions on how climate change is affecting glaciers around the world.

It is virtually certain that the retreat of many glaciers around the world has been caused by climate change, a new study suggests.

Understanding the ocean's influence could help reveal how glaciers around the world are feeding the rising seas.

The research isn't only relevant to the past - it's likely that climate change will affect the stability of cold hanging glaciers around the world.

A series of benchmark glaciers around the world were chosen where annual mass balance would be monitored.

The observations have implications for predicting the sea level rise that could accompany global warming and the melting of glaciers around the world.

France's Polar Institute Paul - Émile Victor and its partner, Italy's National Antarctic Research Program manage the station, which is 3,800 meters above sea level and has an annual average temperature of — 55 degrees C. Ultimately, the project would store dozens of ice cores from glaciers around the world, safely dug into the snow in the world's safest freezer, Chappellaz says.

James Balog and the Extreme Ice Survey team documented the vanishing glaciers around the world on an ambitious photographic survey

«When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking,» said Slawek Tulaczyk, a University of California, Santa Cruz, professor who studied the glaciers.

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.

It hopes to unite the international community of glaciologists in order to carry out at least another ten or so drilling missions at various glaciers around the world, both those of scientific interest and those threatened by climate change.

The striking before - and - after photographs showing the disappearance of glaciers around the world shocked me out of my doubting stance.

OTOH, these decreasing snowpacks and decreasing glaciers around the world, it seems, is one of the most serious harms from AGW, since, for instance, 40 % of India and 40 % of China (& and many, many others) depend on the yearly glacial cycle of summer meltwater supplying their waterways during their growing seasons, and snows replenishing the glaciers during winter.

At the same time, however, much research has suggested that the warming of the Earth is behind considerable loss of polar ice mass, not only in Greenland and Antarctica, but also smaller glaciers around the world.

After hacked e-mail messages show global warming to be a hoax, glaciers around the world stop melting.

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

Meltwater from Asia's peaks is much less than previously estimated, but lead scientist says the loss of ice caps and glaciers around the world remains a serious concern By Damian Carrington The world's greatest snow - capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have -LSB-...]

Similar detailed studies are vital to develop accurate models that predict how climate change will affect glaciers around the world, Prof. Briner says.

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.»

Thompson is an extraordinary scientist focused for decades (along with his equally remarkable wife, Ellen Mosley - Thompson) on direct observations of climate as well as evidence derived from ice cores extracted from glaciers around the world.

This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes both additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators, such as melting on ice caps and the retreat of glaciers around the world».

Mountain glaciers around the world, from the Himalayas to the Andes, are shrinking in the face of climate change — and that could pose a major threat to water resources for nearby communities.

Glaciers around the world are melting and contributing to sea level rise, but scientists still don't quite understand how exactly glaciers give birth to icebergs as they flow into the ocean and lose ice.

Glaciers around the world are disappearing before our eyes, and the implications for people are wide - ranging and troubling, Twila Moon, a glacier expert at the University of Colorado Boulder, concludes in a Perspectives piece in the journal Science today.

The study warns that, given no change in greenhouse gas emissions in the near future, around 99 percent of the glaciers around the world's tallest mountain will melt, drastically changing the surrounding environment.

Melting ice in Greenland and Antarctica get far more attention, but mountain glaciers around the world — in the Rockies, the Andes, the Himalayas and other ranges — are melting as well as the planet heats up.

However, these results are qualitatively confirmed from field and satellite - based observations for tens of thousands of glaciers around the world,» Zemp said, in the statement.

Pages of graphs show the rate of growth or shrinkage of glaciers around the world....

Reading all the testimony from these scientists, lay people, professionals pertaining to the melting of all the glaciers around the world....

Mountain glaciers around the world have been on the wane as well.

Research has shown that glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, and Alaska, which has only 5 percent of the total ice Greenland has, lost a volume of ice equal to nine states 3 feet thick between 2004 and 2007 alone.

Glaciers are very sensitive to temperature change and as a result of climate change, glaciers around the world are in irreversible retreat.

Glaciers around the world are shrinking and at risk of disappearing, including those in the mountains of Asia whose ice melt feeds the continent's major rivers during the dry season.

So Huss and Hock turned to a model of mountain glaciers around the world.

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 Earth is getting warmer, and glaciers around the world are retreating and shrinking.