Sentences with phrase «glacier experts»

There we find a 45 - page, perfectly valid chapter on glaciers, snow and ice (Chapter 4), with the authors including leading glacier experts (such as my good colleague Georg Kaser from Austria, who first discovered the Himalaya error in the WG2 report).

But glacier experts say that the ban imposed in Xinjiang will not be enough.

Edson Ramirez, one of Bolivia's most respected glacier experts, predicted that Chacaltaya, at least, would last until 2015.

Several independent glacier experts who have followed the Kilimanjaro research said the new paper and Dr. Thompson's earlier assertions about melting were probably both right to some extent.

From this location all ice flowed outward, so glacier experts hoped that even at the bottom, three kilometers (two miles) down, the layers would be relatively undisturbed by movement.

Meanwhile glacier experts developed ingenious models that suggested that global warming might provoke the ice sheets of Antarctica to break up swiftly, shocking the climate system with a huge surge of icewater.

«I predicted this in 1999,» Dr. Don Easterbrook, a climate scientist and glacier expert from Washington State, said of the 18 - year period with no global warming.

So the problem here is not that the IPCC's glacier experts made an incorrect prediction.

More dodgy citations in the Nobel - winning climate report (WWF - generated literature) >> Time magazine's controversial glacier expert >> Green time capsule: 1970 eco ideas not pretty >> Climate psychics: 10 - year - old UK snow prediction fails miserably

Global warming is also contributing to the rising ocean temperatures on the whole, but «the warming of the ocean alone is not sufficient to explain what we see,» said Eric Rignot, a glacier expert at the University of California, Irvine, in an emailed comment on the new study.

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.

In mid-January, the New Scientist confessed to its own sloppiness, exactly one day after IPCC Chairman Pachauri and his glacier expert Hasnain had announced a joint venture involving TERI, Iceland and the United States to study the Himalayan glaciers, with half a million dollars in funding from the New York - based Carnegie Foundation.

asked Dr. Eric Rignot, a glacier expert at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

A few weeks before the IPCC admitted its Himalayan glacier predictions were dead wrong, Time magazine profiled the glacier expert at the center of the storm.

Professor Graham Cogley, a glacier expert at Trent University in Canada, who began to raise doubts in scientific circles last year, said the claim multiplies the rate at which glaciers have been seen to melt by a factor of about 25.

Global warming is also contributing to the rising ocean temperatures on the whole, but «the warming of the ocean alone is not sufficient to explain what we see,» said Eric Rignot, a glacier expert at the University of California, Irvine, in an emailed comment on the new study.

«The pictures speak for themselves,» said Jason Box, a glacier expert at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, who spotted the changes while studying new satellite images.

Until now, anyone has been allowed to review any part of the IPCC drafts they liked, but there was no coordination in the sense that say, a glacier expert was specifically assigned to double - check parts of the WG2 chapter on Asia.