Sentences with phrase «glaciologists know»

Here's more about why this is the case — and how glaciologists know this isn't normal — from our friends at Yale Climate Connections:

But the claim was rubbish, and the world's top glaciologists knew it.

Glaciergate occurred because India's scientific authorities on Himalayan glaciers told their government that the IPCC assertion of complete loss of the glaciers by 2035 was impossible — a fact that all glaciologists knew — but the IPCC Chairman (Rajendra Pechauri) replied that this fact was «voodoo science».

Not exact matches

In 2015, glaciologist Daniela Jansen reported that a large rift was rapidly growing across one of the Antarctic Peninsula's ice shelves, known as Larsen C.

«We don't currently know what changed in 2014 that allowed this rift to push through the suture zone and propagate into the main body of the ice shelf,» said Dan McGrath, a glaciologist at Colorado State University who has been studying the Larsen C ice shelf since 2008.

Glaciologists would like to know what's happening.

«It's a major impediment to developing realistic ice sheet models when you don't even know how thick some of these outlet glaciers are,» says Eric Rignot, a remote - sensing glaciologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Bassis also pointed out that glaciologists already know the fracture toughness of glacial ice, which could have been plugged into the computer simulation.

Camp Century was known to Colgan and other glaciologists as the site where the first deep ice core was drilled.

Please read this sober paper on glaciers and climate by french professor and glaciologist Robert Vivian... sorry it is in french: http://virtedit.online.fr/article.html In a follow - up article he starts saying «No, glaciers do not risk disappearing!»

I am not a Glaciologist but a Climatologist and the statement attributed to me in «Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified» By David Rose in UK Daily Mail on 24th January 2010 has been wrongly placed.

Mr. Sinclair has traveled three times to the Greenland ice sheet with scientific teams to document ongoing research in this area, and interviewed hundreds of today's best known glaciologists, oceanographers, geologists, and atmospheric scientists.

Glaciologists have long known materials such as mineral dust and black carbon can darken the surface of large ice sheets.

All I can think is that either somebody has their decimal point off by a couple of places, or glaciologists can't agree on the definition of «glacier», or the USGS can no longer afford to hire glaciologists.

What I would like to know is, what do global climate models say about the depth of the warm oceanic layer in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere near the U.S., both under the standard assumptions and under assumptions of greater runoff from Greenland which almost all glaciologists seem to find most likely.

Knowing the thickness and total volume of glaciers worldwide is essential for modeling the response of glaciers to climate change, said Valentina Radic, a glaciologist at the University of British Columbia who was not involved in the study.