Sentences with phrase «glaciers and ice sheets produce»

The warming ocean and atmosphere that are already melting glaciers and ice sheets produce a catastrophic rise in the ocean.

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Robert Bindschadler of NASA and Tad Pfeffer at the University of Colorado, both glacier specialists, told me that they saw scant evidence that a yards - per - century rise in seas could be produced from the ice sheets that currently cloak Greenland and West Antarctica, which are very different than what existed in past periods of fast sea - level changes.

This is predicted to produce changes such as the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, more extreme temperature ranges, significant changes in weather conditions and a global rise in average sea levels.

The new methods involve filtering out noise from the data produced by the Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) spacecraft, sent into orbit with the aim of finding out just how much ice is melting from the world's ice sheets and glacieAnd Climate Experiment (GRACE) spacecraft, sent into orbit with the aim of finding out just how much ice is melting from the world's ice sheets and glacieand glaciers.

It is the Ministry of Energy's responsibility to minimize crop - withering heat waves, to prevent the melting of the glaciers that feed Asia's major rivers during the dry season, and to prevent the ice sheet melting that would inundate the river deltas and floodplains that produce much of the Asian rice harvest.