Sentences with phrase «ice at an accelerating rate»

It turns out the world's glaciers are losing ice at an accelerating rate.

Similarly, Antarctica is also losing ice at an accelerating rate.

Antarctica is losing land ice at an accelerating rate.

He explains how measurements since the early 1990s show that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerating rate, which, if unchecked, will result in about 1 metre of sea level rise by the end of the century, and 6 - 9 metres in the next few hundred years.

First, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is already losing ice at an accelerated rate, and is likely to continue to do so for hundreds of years.

Both Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice at an accelerated rate (Velicogna 2009,).

Satellites measure Antarctica is gaining sea ice but losing land ice at an accelerating rate which has implications for sea level rise.

This sensitivity is apparent in current observations, with both Greenland and Antarctica losing ice at an accelerating rate.

Not exact matches

«But because carbon is dark it absorbs sunlight, causing snow and ice to melt at accelerated rates.

More than 80 % of the ice on Africa's highest peak has melted since the early 20th century, joining other glaciers that are ebbing from the world's tropical mountains at an accelerating rate.

At the other end of the world, the recent satellite data show that the rate of melting of Arctic sea ice has accelerated from 2.5 per cent per decade, as shown by the Nimbus data, to 4.3 per cent per decade.

With Arctic ice melting at an accelerating rate, nations are looking to travel through a region that has been barren since James Cook mapped the Bering Strait in 1778.

About 1.2 million years ago, the sedimentation rate accelerated — the same time that Earth's ice ages began to occur more intensely at 100,000 - year intervals rather than in 40,000 - year cycles.

Some of the heat seems to be going into melting the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica which are losing ice mass at an accelerating rate.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets began to shed ice at a rate, now several hundred cubic kilometers per year, which is continuing to accelerate [23]--[25].

Glaciers and Arctic ice are melting at an accelerating rate.

He explains that the sea ice is thinning at an accelerating rate, as the Arctic Ocean warms.

People have ignored the fact that when we started «contributing» CO2 at such an accelerated rate we were already at the «local maximum» of the carbon / ice age cycle (Link: / / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png) What Hansen is saying is the only real choice if we don't want to radically change the planet's climate.

The melt of the Greenland glaciers is accelerating at an incredible rate and it can't be long before the Arctic sea ice disappears altering global albedo irrevocably.

Glaciers have continued to melt at accelerating rates, arctic summer ice is declining at accelerating rates, more 6 - 10 thousand year old ice shelves are collapsing.

«But with the rapidly accelerating rates at which the ice is melting, and in the light of all the other, well - publicized lines of evidence, most scientists would be hard pressed to find mechanisms that do not include human - made climate change,» he added.

Satellite gravity measurements show Greenland is losing ice mass at an accelerated rate, increasing its contribution to rising sea levels.

Which is bringing warmer water to the surface at a pretty rapid rate, warming the surface and accelerating the rate at which this ice is melting.»

What's more, a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Letters found that IPCC models had low - balled the rate at which melted ice drifts off, further accelerating the collapse.

The breakup of these ice shelves is a concern, because that would essentially remove the stopper and greatly accelerate the rate at which glacier melt finds its way to the ocean.

Ice loss is accelerating at a rate of 26 Gigatonnes / yr2.

With this third method, and with continued evolution of mass budget and geodetic methods it was shown that the ice sheets were in fact losing mass at an accelerating rate by the end of the 2000s (Veliconga 2009, Rignot et al. 2011b).

Ice is melting at accelerating rates in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and glaciers all over the world.

Ice mass loss is occuring at an accelerated rate in Greenland, Antarctica and globally from inland glaciers.

The best fitting trend finds that Greenland ice loss is accelerating at a rate of 30 Gigatonnes / yr2.

Clearly, you missed yesterday's Washington Post report on the findings of a major international study of Antarctica's humongous Totten Glacier ice sheet, which is melting at an alarmingly accelerated rate.

Some of the heat seems to be going into melting the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica which are losing ice mass at an accelerating rate.

If we assume the warmist notion that global land ice is shrinking AND dO is increasing during the pause, then we should see sea level rising at an accelerating rate.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets began to shed ice at a rate, now several hundred cubic kilometers per year, which is continuing to accelerate [23]--[25].

Floating ice shelves around Antarctica are losing mass at an accelerating rate.

«And these ice sheets are also now melting: And melting at an accelerating rate, at both ends of the earth.»

The Greenland ice sheet is melting at an accelerating rate, with both the extent of melting and the length of the melt season growing.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Greenland is losing ice from part of its territory at an accelerating rate, suggesting that the edges of the entire ice cap may be unstable.

Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are losing ice mass at an accelerating rate (Velicogna 2009).

Over the satellite era, the rate of spring snow loss is similar to that of late - summer Arctic sea ice extent, with each at an accelerated pace over the past decade.

The loss, in recent decades, of thousands of square miles of sea ice has accelerated warming in the Arctic, where temperatures are increasing at two to three times the rate of the globe as a whole.

Greenland's ice sheet has lost mass at an accelerated rate over the last decade, dumping more ice and fresh water into the ocean.

Both Greenland and Antarctic ice - sheets are losing mass at an accelerating rates, as are glaciers the world over.

Meanwhile, glaciers on Greenland and Antarctica are accelerating at astonishing rates, disgorging increasing amounts of ice into the ocean.

Real world observations tell us that the IPCC's speculative computer models do not work, ice is not melting at an enhanced rate, sea - level rise is not accelerating, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is not increasing, and dangerous global warming is not occurring.»

Using a simple elastic model, we estimate that western Greenland's ice loss is accelerating at an average rate of 8.7 ± 3.5 Gt yr − 2, whereas the rate for southeastern Greenland — based on limited data — falls at 12.5 ± 5.5 Gt yr − 2.