Sentences with phrase «ice caps affect»
And those melting ice caps affect a whole lot more than polar bears.
https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/ Not exact matches
If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on land
«Considering that the surface is moving much faster than we had previously thought, it could also affect things like the stability of the ice caps and help us to understand past climate change.»
There's also plenty they don't know yet — how global warming might affect tornadoes, for example, or how quickly the massive ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica could slide into the oceans.
And sea level rise will affect the glaciers that have grounding lines upstream and under the ice — the grounding line moves further upstream... would this touch some of the deeper lakes under the ice cap?
Surely the melting Arctic ice cap is changing the salinity of the northern Atlantic and could affect this circulation as well.
The melting ice caps follow a trend of continually rising temperatures across the globe, and the Northern hemisphere has been particularly affected.
Affects multiple natural events like the weather and melting the polar ice caps.
It would have to be something that affected the net heat balance of the earth by affecting incoming radiation (solar inputs, aerosols, clouds), the reflectivity of the earth (ice caps, land use changes) or the ability of the surface to cool (greenhouse gases).
Mars undergoes temperature swings influenced by how much sunlight reaches the surface, which also affects its polar ice caps (another great influence on the atmosphere.)
There's also plenty they don't know yet — how global warming might affect tornadoes, for example, or how quickly the massive ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica could slide into the oceans.
As the last major ice age began to recede around 17,000 years ago, polar ice caps in the north and south started to melt, releasing vast quantities of fresh water into the salty oceans, altering natural currents, affecting the environment.
The age of melting ice at the different ice caps will be dependent on their slope, aspect and situation, which will affect the amount of ice accumulated during the late Holocene and the melt rate in the current warm period.
Melting ice caps and a couple less polar bears don't really affect me, right?
Blocking high pressure systems affect all regions of the planet, and a team from Rutgers University recently reported in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate that such blocking highs could stop cold Canadian air from reaching Greenland, and thus accelerate the surface melting of the Arctic's largest ice cap.
Therein, Pope Francis echoed President Obama's tune, claiming there exists «solid scientific consensus» that human activities are causing a «disturbing warming» of the climate, which left unchecked will result in a type of planetary Armageddon manifested by escalating temperatures, melting polar ice caps, rising seas, more frequent and more severe weather, ecosystem degradation, and plant and animal extinctions, all of which he claimed will severely affect humanity.
The North Pole's shrinking ice cap has already affected some coastal cities in Alaska, Meier said.
Carbon footprint affects us because when the ice caps melt the sea level will rise and then there will be many flood and London wont even be here.
The disappearance of the polar ice cap could also affect global ocean circulation patterns, and its melting has already imperiled native species such as the polar bear.