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Guardian: Fears rise of huge outburst flooding in the Himalayas as glaciers melt due to climate change.

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These days, there is a lot of talk about the glaciers melting due to global warming.

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This allowed them to calculate the redistribution of mass on Earth's surface due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and mountain glaciers, and model the shift in Earth's axis.

This is due to the thaw following the last ice age: the melting of glaciers lets the crust rebound, redistributing Earth's mass and leading to subtle changes in its axis of rotation.

A number of causes have been suggested, including changes in ocean currents due to melting glaciers and volcanic activity.

The data allowed them to calculate the redistribution of mass on Earth's surface due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and mountain glaciers, and the resulting rise in sea level.

The IceSat satellite, which Fricker uses to monitor subglacial lakes and which others use to monitor the sagging tops of melting glaciers, can function only 66 days per year due to a technical glitch.

Sea - level rise occurs due to glacier melt and thermal expansion of warming water.

Sea levels have also risen due to melting glaciers and ice sheets at the poles.

Global greenhouse gas emissions have already committed the residents of the Maldives to a watery future: ocean expansion due to warming has raised sea levels enough to regularly deluge the islands, and melting glaciers will only make matters worse.

In previous years, Antarctic sea ice hit record highs, potentially due to changing ocean conditions linked to the melting of land - bound glaciers.

Since IPCC (2001) the cryosphere has undergone significant changes, such as the substantial retreat of arctic sea ice, especially in summer; the continued shrinking of mountain glaciers; the decrease in the extent of snow cover and seasonally frozen ground, particularly in spring; the earlier breakup of river and lake ice; and widespread thinning of antarctic ice shelves along the Amundsen Sea coast, indicating increased basal melting due to increased ocean heat fluxes in the cavities below the ice shelves.

This includes changes in heat content of the lithosphere (Beltrami et al., 2002), the atmosphere (e.g., Trenberth et al., 2001) and the total heat of fusion due to melting of i) glaciers, ice caps and the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets (see Chapter 4) and ii) arctic sea ice (Hilmer and Lemke, 2000).

The uplift occurring here is due to present - day melting of glaciers and ice fields formed during the Little Ice Age glacial advance that occurred between 1550 A.D. and 1850 A.D.»

RE # 30 & the Haiti quake being strengthened by landslides / erosion (due to deluges and hurricanes), it made a tiny bit of sense to me, since I'd read something earlier about how glacier melt in Greenland may be causing or contributing to very minor, local quakes.

The rise in CO2 emissions due to the burning of fossil fuels from 1880 through the 1940's was not sufficient to have played a major role in the considerable global temperature rise that took place during that period — so if we want to presume that sea level rise is prompted by global temperature rise (along with concomitant melting of glaciers, etc.) then we can't really attribute very much of the rise in sea levels during that period to CO2.

According to current projections, over 1 billion people will lose access to their only water supplies due to melting Himalayan glaciers, with many major rivers predicted to become seasonal flows.

Outflow from the ice - dammed lake is estimated to have been 11.3 million cubic meters; the additional 17.5 million cubic meters is due to frictional melting of ice as the flood traveled in contact with the glacier, together with an input from base flow.»

A long terms study of a glacier draining the Grimsvotn volcano under the Vatnojokull Ice Cap indicate that there is an initial acceleration due to increased basal melt water pressure, as the flux increasing from the activity.

Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce world net food crop output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.

Since sea surfaces rose by roughly 400 feet since the peak of the last ice age due to melting of glaciers, it is quite possible that a great many civilizations did decline or perish due to warming, and in fact perished so thoroughly that there is no trace of them.

I am worried about the 750 million people in India who will suffer due to the Melting of Himalayan Glaciers.

But it also doesn't take into account the fact that we will be running out of glaciers — which appear to be responsible for more melt than that due to glaciers.

> we will be running out of glaciers — which appear > to be responsible for more melt than that due to glaciers.

The great unknown, which the recent Hansen paper suggests at several metres, is the 21st century eustatic rise, due primarily to ice sheet melting (also melting of polar and mountain glaciers, and of ice shelves).

As glaciers in the Himalayas melt faster due to global warming, pollutants buried under them are finding their way down to the north Indian plains.

«Most glacier melting during last 150 years can not be said to due to human CO2 emission, nor most of the measured increase in average temperature.»

They don't take into account the possibility that pulses of warm sea - water may become more frequent in triggering ice - shelf collapses - or that glaciers may speed up along their base due to penetrating melt - waters.

He was frozen 5000 years ago, and then unfrozen as the glacier he was in melted due to whatever combination of natural climate variability and anthropogenic warming.

27 January 2000: The Hektoria Glacier system is stable, but increased summer melting from climate warming in the 1980s and 1990s affected the glacier system in two ways: (1) a seasonal speedup from summer melt water percolating through the glacier ice to its base, and (2) initial retreat of the Larsen Ice Shelf due to the effects of melt ponds (downstream from this image).

Unlike non-glacier runoff, glacier runoff correlates better with temperature than precipitation, due to the dominant role of glacier melt compared to precipitation in summer runoff from glacierized basins.

Hydro - isostasy due to adding water to oceans from melting glaciers.

The Swedish professor also tells the BAZ that the rates of water rushing into the ocean due to glacier melt are exaggerated and that thermal expansion of the ocean is minimal.

Huss, M., et al., (2009) Strong Alpine glacier melt in the 1940s due to enhanced solar radiation.

Sea level rise is caused by the ocean expanding as it heats up due to global warming and as major stores of ice from glaciers and ice sheets melt.

Nonetheless, the findings demonstrate that satellite - based measurements of Arctic sea surface salinity are reasonably accurate and successfully reflect changes due to river runoff, melting sea ice and glaciers, and ocean circulation.

Sea levels around Britain could rise by more than one metre (3ft) due to climate change, according to a new assessment of melting ice sheets and glaciers, causing floods in London and other coastal towns.

West Antarctica glaciers are melting due to geothermal heat, not warmer oceans which clearly could not carry record sea ice were they warmer.

First, it appears to me that sea level rise is a proxy for what you experts consider important — ocean expansion due to warming and run - off from melting land - based glaciers, and from what I'm reading in these posts it is a poor proxy.

As these glaciers retreat due to global warming (see Chapter 1), river flows are increased in the short term, but the contribution of glacier melt will gradually decrease over the next few decades.

Jenkins / MetO: would you agree that there is no convincing evidence for kilimanjaro glacier melt being due to recent warming (let alone man - made warming)?

But the vast majority of such scientists are convinced that ongoing trends and changes, such as the rapid melting of glaciers that we are currently witnessing, are indeed the result of warming due to man - made greenhouse gas emissions.

This month a team of scientists reported that melting ice caps and glaciers due to climate change are causing oceans to rise more drastically than previously calculated.

If you get some guages from Alaska they will actually show a long term decrease in sea level since there is strong isostatic lift (increase in land height) due to the melting of the glaciers from the ice age.

(NASA study shows that sea level rise rates are accelerating due to the melting of large glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.

But this flooding was due to no hurricane, just the added rise of waters caused by a fossil - fueled warming of the Earth, a melting of her glaciers, and the thermal expansion of her seas.

The edge of the Thwaites glacier [credit: NASA photograph by Jim Yungel] This BBC report seems unaware that a study in 2014 found that parts of the Thwaites Glacier are subject to melting due to subglacial volcanoes and other geothermal «hotspots».

2) you've been told things, like «glaciers melting are proof of anthropic global warming» and accepted them without due diligence.

This is not due to melting glaciers: sea levels are affected by a great many factors, such as the speed at which the earth rotates.