Sentences with phrase «glacier response»

For sea - level rise, the IPCC now includes modeling of glacier responses of 3 to 20 centimeters, leading to a higher total estimate of 40 to 62 centimeters by century's end — much lower than the exaggerated and scary figure of 1 to 2 meters of sea - level rise that many environmental activists, and even some media outlets, bandy about.
Variable glacier response to atmospheric warming, northern Antarctic Peninsula, 1988 — 2009.
All the quantified mechanisms involve forcings like volcanic and solar variability for the Holocene case, and CO2 and Milankovic (modified by the slow land - glacier response) for the LGM.
Patterns of glacier response to disintegration of the Larsen B ice shelf, Antarctic Peninsula.
Annual mass balance is the most sensitive glacier indicator of glacier response to climate change.
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