Sentences with phrase «glaciologists think»

The findings sharpen the way glaciologists think about melting of ice sheets and how ice reflects light, according to Marek Stibal, a cryosphere ecologist at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic and one of the lead authors of the new study.

But not all glaciologists think it has significantly changed the planet's immediate prognosis.

Not exact matches

The public may balk at geoengineering, but we've got to think boldly if we're going to protect our coasts, says glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk

Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, said it is an «interesting paper» that shows that thinning has started in a region thought resistant, in response to warming that is much smaller than what is projected for the future.

Studies by glaciologist Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine and others suggest that ice sheets could melt faster than scientists initially thought.

«We think it's a nice case study for this kind of political tension stemming from climate change,» study author William Colgan, a glaciologist at York University in Toronto, said.

Sorry, I probably missed the boat on this one (you caught me on vacation) but I think you and the glaciologist make a good point.

I've put out a query to a batch of glaciologists for more thoughts and will update this post when they reply.

As summer neared an end in 2007, reports from Greenland indicated that the flow of glaciers into the sea had accelerated beyond anything glaciologists had thought possible.

Dr. Theodore A. Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, said the long life of Larsen B «makes you think there's something particularly unusual about this warming» — perhaps evidence that the warming has been brought on by artificial emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.

A region of the Greenland ice sheet that had been thought to be stable is undergoing what glaciologists call «dynamic thinning».

«I think this event is the calving equivalent of an «aftershock» following the much bigger event,» Ian Howat a glaciologist at Ohio State University told NASA.

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.

«I don't think this lets us off the hook of explaining how Antarctica's sea ice is expanding in a warming world,» says Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

It's challenging, but it also means that when you say «For this guy I was thinking about the glaciologist's dream in Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World», nobody's eyes immediately go blank.