Sentences with phrase «glacier recession rates»

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In Patagonia, analysis of glacier area and length changes shows that recession is widespread (90.2 % have retreated since 1870), is more rapid in smaller land - terminating glaciers, and that rates of recession are accelerating.

In Alaska glaciers had been retreating from 100 to 200 years, the average rate of recession being about 50 feet a year.

However, the recent studies of some of the Himalayan glaciers indicate that the rate of recession of most of the glaciers in general is on decline.

A (2) Modern warming, glacier and sea ice recession, sea level rise, drought and hurricane intensities... are all occurring at unprecedentedly high and rapid rates, and the effects are globally synchronous (not just regional)... and thus dangerous consequences to the global biosphere and human civilizations loom in the near future as a consequence of anthropogenic influences.

Based on the pictures and global recession rates, scientists predict that the park will be glacier free by 2030.

In a statement released Wednesday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said estimates relating to the rate of recession of the Himalayan glaciers in its Fourth Assessment Report were «poorly substantiated» adding that «well - established standards of evidence were not applied properly.»

(Errata) Between 1842 and 1935, the glacier was receding at an average of 7.3 m every year; the average rate of recession between 1985 and 2001 is about 23 m per year (Hasnain, 2002).