Sentences with phrase «glacier retreat reported»

As a consequence of temperature increases, the trend in glacier retreat reported in the Third Assessment Report is accelerating (very high confidence).

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Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains that wind - driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.

Himalayan glaciers are beating a rapid retreat in the face of global warming, according to a flurry of recent reports by BBC and other mass media.

The study reports that glaciers flowing to the coast on the western side of the Peninsula show a distinct spatial correlation with ocean temperature patterns, with those in the south retreating rapidly but those in the north showing little change.

Hello, slightly offtopic here, but recently there were press reports about findings of very fast and extended glacier retreats in the Swiss Mountains several times during the last 7 or so millennia.

This is quite a shift from his chiding tone last November when the Indian government endorsed a report questioning the panel's 2007 conclusions on the retreat of Himalayan glaciers.

I first learned about this kind of work when I went to Switzerland in the early 1990s to report on the accelerating retreat of glaciers in the Alps and met several scientists studying centuries worth of paintings, drawings, and other artistic representations to clarify where the snouts of glaciers sat in centuries past.

Half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of mountains are advancing and not retreating, researchers announced in the first major study since a 2007 United Nations report warned the glaciers would melt by 2035, according to the Daily Mail.

According to a report in Nature News, glaciers in the Himalayas are retreating faster than in any other part of the world and they could disappear completely by 2035.

In early 2009 the University of Zurich's World Glacier Monitoring Service reported that 2007 marked the eighteenth consecutive year of glacier retreat.

As IPCC AR4 reports «Most mountain glaciers and ice caps have been shrinking, with the retreat probably having started about 1850 [NB: the end of the «little ice age»].

The 2009 State of the Climate Report of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tells us that climate change is real because of rising surface air temperatures since 1880 over land and the ocean, ocean acidification, sea level rise, glaciers melting, rising specific humidity, ocean heat content increasing, sea ice retreating, glaciers diminishing, Northern Hemisphere snow cover decreasing, and so many other lines of evidence.

Ray PH reported at RC an AGU session describing the very interesting recent discovery of organic material disgorged from a retreating glacier N of 70N on the east coast of Greenland, with radiocarbon dates around the MWP.

He edited scientific reports, striking out evidence that glaciers were retreating and inserting phrases suggesting that there was serious scientific doubt about climate change.

Although the recent retreat of Greenland's glaciers is reported as an acceleration relative to the 70s, the rate of retreat is now much slower than the 30s and 40s.

When the Indian government issued a report in early November 2009 (Himalayan Glaciers, A state - of - art review of glacial studies, glacial retreat and climate change) that contradicted the claim, the questions became more persistent.

Despite the questions, the statements were retained in the final published version of Chapter 10, though the authors did finally add a reference — not to the Down to Earth article from which it was drawn, but to a 2005 report from WWF Nepal: An overview of glaciers, glacier retreat, and subsequent impacts in Nepal, India and China.

A good example is the report of glaciers retreating.

There are no radical departures in this report from the previous assessment, published in 2007; just a great deal more evidence demonstrating the extent of global temperature rises, the melting of ice sheets and sea ice, the retreat of the glaciers, the rising and acidification of the oceans and the changes in weather patterns (3).

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.

From the middle of the 20th century and through the 1970s, it was common for scientists to report a rapid warming of «nearly 1 ° C «between about 1890 and 1940 (Agee, 1980), a warming accompanied by «catastrophic» and «violent» glacier retreat.

The Hindu: «The Gangotri glacier is retreating like other glaciers in the Himalayas and its volume and size are shrinking as well,» a report, titled «Estimation of retreat rate of Gangotri glacier using rapid static and kinematic GPS survey», by scientists from the Almora - based G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development has stated.

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However, the accelerated retreat of glaciers, combined with greater melting of these ice sheets, suggest that earlier projections of sea - level rise over the next century — such as in the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — are conservative.8, 9

In an interview, the late climate science pioneer, Dr. Reid Bryson even reported about the remains of a medieval silver mine, which became exposed as a glacier retreated.

Pachauri, who led the compilation of some 2,000 of the world's top climate scientists for 13 years, worked to tighten up the credibility of the reports that guide policymakers and survived a scandal five years ago over exaggerated claims about the speed of glaciers retreating.

«Ample» evidence indicates that global warming is causing glaciers to retreat worldwide, reports the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. - sponsored network of climate scientists led by Pachauri.

A second study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, reports the widespread retreat of Thwaites and other glaciers on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — and says the retreat can't help but continue.

Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region's water supply are unclear, this report finds.

Almost every one of more than 300 large glaciers studied worldwide — from the Andes in South America to the Himalayas — is in retreat, international glaciologists reported in October in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

«[a] n authoritative report published last November by the Indian government said: «Himalayan glaciers have not in any way exhibited, especially in recent years, an abnormal annual retreat.»

If you pick the Gangotri Glacier, which is one of the longest in the Himalayas, at about 30 km length, then the reported retreat rate of just under 30m / year clearly indicates that unless things speed up dramatically, the glacier will need of order 1000 years to disappear.

The retreat is worse in the Andes than the average glacier loss around the world, the researchers report today (Jan. 22) in the journal The Cryosphere.