Sentences with phrase «global sea level dropped»

So much water was locked up in these ice sheets that the global sea level dropped by over 125 metres — around ten metres lower than the height of the London Eye.
As they advanced and ice built up, global sea level dropped and exposed the limestones on the caye to rainwater, which resulted in the formation of ther many caves and sinkholes (cenotes) on the caye and throughout Belize.
During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.
Global sea levels dropped more than 50m.

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But in mid-2010, scientists noticed a curious trend: For the first time in two decades, global average sea level began dropping.
When you're talking about global warming and melting ice caps, as everyone seems to be, a five - millimeter adjustment in the modeled diameter of the Earth could be the difference between sea levels appearing to rise from any given year to the next and then appearing to drop.
Even if global warming emissions were to drop to zero by 2016, scientists project another 1.2 to 2.6 feet of global sea level rise by 2100 as oceans and land ice adjust to the changes we have already made to the atmosphere.
Yet inexplicably, most researchers estimate global sea level never dropped significantly.
The global mean sea level (GMSL) was reported to have dropped 5 mm due to the 2010/11 La Niña and have recovered in one year.
Well, looks like the sea - level is dropping, so much for global warming, eh?
kim (22:04:11): «Well, excellent, but he ignores the present global cooling, as manifest in lower tropospheric temperatures via RSS and UAH, lower oceanic temperatures via Argos buoys, and dropping sea level via TOPEX / Jason.
Well, excellent, but he ignores the present global cooling, as manifest in lower tropospheric temperatures via RSS and UAH, lower oceanic temperatures via Argos buoys, and dropping sea level via TOPEX / Jason.
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Does this mean the drop in sea level indicates global warming has reversed?
Although real concerns exist about coral mining and the big «Asian Brown Cloud» due to particulates from biomass burning and inefficient industrial processes, Hansen would like to stoke alarm due to global warming, irrespective of the evidence: «An INQUA research in 2003 found that actual sea levels in the Maldives had dropped in the 1970s and forecasts little change in the next century.»
The GIA change was added in 2011 when the sea level was in the process of dropping 6 mm and the global warmers were desperate for some good news.
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