Sentences with phrase «ice caps do»

This is reassuring, because if the ice cap did melt completely in the near future, it would raise global sea levels by 60 metres.

The continued heating of the seas and melting ice caps does not bode well for ice cover in the arctic.

The retreat of these two adjacent outlets of the Cook Ice Cap doesn't count, nowadays, as startling news.

For example over the past winter the Arctic ice cap did see unusually warm surface temperatures, yet Arctic sea ice did not shrink as some would intuitively expect it to do.

I will emphasize «global» because your single point data of the Greenland ice cap doesn't represent global temperature.

Not exact matches

I don't live near an ice - capped body of water, nor do I work near the Sahara desert.

That would mean, amongst other things, that there were no ice caps or salt water, that plate tectonics were incredibly rapid in the recent past and this didn't cause the Earth's surface to shatter etc..

And science does not clearly show that, no one has provided any evidence to prove that the Biblical account is false Again if God wanted to make the flood, then it stands to reason that he is going to make the water go away, maybe it went into the earth or frozen into the ice caps And a lot of it is

and how much was due to Mr. I. Without those loyalty contracts the Wings would be in a much better position cap wise, though I don't think the team would be any better on the ice because regardless of those contracts the Wings haven't been able to draft and develop any of the elite players needed to be successful in today's game.

Once again, the Kalik's are icy cold I could swear that the casino is fixed, cause it seemed like every dealer in Blackjack was pulling 21's out of their butts, but I won't get into that:p Most evenings with the family were capped off with an ice cream at the Atlantis pier... there really is not much more to do for little kids.

Treated separately, the two sets of data do not show a statistically significant decrease in the extent of Antarctic ice, although they do show that the Arctic cap is shrinking.

«The frozen history from this tropical ice cap — which is melting away as Earth continues to warm — is archived in freezers at -30 ºC so that creative people will have access to it 20 years from now, using instruments and techniques that don't even exist today,» he said.

Do you know of any investigations of current deep ice temperatures of the glaciers and ice caps?

The ice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water,» said Anja Rutishauser, coauthor and a PhD student at the University of Alberice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water,» said Anja Rutishauser, coauthor and a PhD student at the University of AlberIce Cap, so we didn't expect to find liquid water,» said Anja Rutishauser, coauthor and a PhD student at the University of Alberta.

«As more studies are done in Iceland, with better equipment (and hence better data), I would not be surprised to see more robust and convincing evidence of increases in magma production and / or eruptions in Iceland as the current ice caps shrink further.

For reasons we don't entirely understand yet, Mars lacks this protection and possesses only remnants of a magnetic field at its polar ice caps.

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.

Research by University of Maryland astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton and New Horizons colleagues, published in the journal Nature, shows that this nitrogen ice cap could have formed early on, when Pluto was still spinning quickly, and did not necessarily require an impact basin.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

Next thing you know, the two lovebirds head to the theater to see Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, before capping off the evening with a little canoodling while sharing an ice cream cone.

I do wish he'd melted the ice caps on the Paramount logo as originally intended.

A better option in my opinion would have been to do a great snowboard level like City Escape or Ice Cap.

Do I need to say anything more than just Ice Cap?

In Warmind, you'll do battle against a thawed - out Hive army that was lurking underneath the planet's polar ice caps.

Global warming caused the melting of the northern polar ice cap, and tropical storms ravage all areas that didn't suffer from desertification.

Do you know of any investigations of current deep ice temperatures of the glaciers and ice caps?

There's no doubt the ice caps are melting, and will continue to do so, until a while after CO2 gets brought down one way or another.

How do the complex feedbacks change atmospheric circulation patterns, and the interaction of these patterns to changes in ice cap topography (e.g. at the LGM)?

Over all, open water has spread in the Arctic this summer nearly as much as it did last summer, when polar experts said the ice cap shrank far more than had been measured since satellites started scanning the region 30 years ago — and probably more than it had shrunk in a century or more.

Does this imply that a 1.5 °C increase in global temperatures brings the same problems independent of the heat stored lower in the oceans or how much the ice caps have melted?

I am confident that if the ice caps begin to collapse in earnest, economic theory will shift around to assert that we should not have put our descendants at risk in the way we are now doing.

Second, given that the exposed ground shows the depth of the extant permafrost cap, it seems clear that the pingo's ice did not melt from the top down, as the surface material remained frozen (gas - tight) before finally being blown out.

Explosions don't make smooth - bored holes like that but collapsed pingos do, possibly with gas - pressure driven ejection of material upon melting of the pingo ice cap.

We do know that the Arctic ice cap is melting faster than was predicted even five years ago.

Pictures from space of the ice cap melting and other facts just don't seem to get in the way of «political logic».

Research activity did accelerate using state - of - the - art computers, international programs to assemble weather data, and adventurous expeditions across oceans and ice caps to gather information on past climates.

We do not have to lose the polar ice - caps for disastrous sea - level rise to occur, given the number of major cities situated at or close to sea - level.

Contrary to what the vast majority of «liberal» and «conservative» members of the public think, climate scientists do not believe sea levels will rise if the north pole ice cap melts (unlike the south pole ice cap, which sits atop a land mass, the north pole «ice cap» is already floating in the sea, a point that various «climate science literacy» guides issued by scientific bodies like NASA and NOAA emphasize).

Ocean and land surfaces warm at different rates, and land covered by vegetation absorbs and reflects solar energy differently than do deserts or ice - caps.

These values have been estimated using relatively simple climate models (one low - resolution AOGCM and several EMICs based on the best estimate of 3 °C climate sensitivity) and do not include contributions from melting ice sheets, glaciers and ice caps.

bob — I don't think they drilled beneath the ice cap.

Given evolution over the past 500 million years when virtually all modern emerged and radiated largely occurred while the planet had no polar ice caps and atmospheric CO2 up to ten times current level, and the planet was green from pole to pole, and life did so well it was able to sequester huge amounts of energy in fossil fuel beds.

«I don't think they drilled beneath the ice cap.

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

Yet if we don't do it, melting ice caps will be the least of our worries.

Does it seem like the forests of America are destined for the same fate as the Arctic ice caps, being that the government will do nothing about it?

Did you know that the ice cap on Greenland is at far higher altitudes than required for there to be an glacier, same at Antarctic.

The amount of ice on the polar caps doesn't depend on the temperature, but availability of raw material, to renew itself every season.

The most recent report (PDF) on climate science from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made clear that we still don't know how sensitive the climate system is to CO2, nor what disruptive feedbacks may emerge as ecosystems dry out, ice caps disappear and permafrost melts — all of which potentially could accelerate warming beyond human control.

What I do know, is that Geologically speaking, we are still in an ice - age (inter-glacial period, but still an ice age as we currently have ice - caps), so I know for a fact that earthly life as a whole will be quite happy once we have moved away from the unusually cold climate and can return to a warmer and more fruitful climate instead.