Sentences with phrase «ice caps on»

I know that meltwater from glaciers and ice caps on land contribute to SLR, whereas melting sea ice and floating ice shelves do not.

Or seems this occurs when Earth has colder conditions of large ice caps on north America and / or when there is enlarged polar regions.

Of course he has an agenda, all politicians do and I should have gotten to go to Africa too since my tax dollars paid for it, the ice caps on Kilimanjaro are back by the way.

For example, this old contrarian / denier canard was trotted out at the hearing: «Melting ice caps on Mars serve to counter evidence of anthropogenic warming on Earth.»

By the way, did you know that the polar ice caps on Mars are getting smaller?

There is evidence that the ice caps on Mars have been receding.

Over the past decade, Miller has been taking radiocarbon dates on moss exposed from receding glaciers / ice caps on Baffin Island.

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.

Reduction of ice caps on mountains, which is now occuring due to global warming, would have a similar effect.

As the sun's output increases, the polar ice caps on Earth will melt, resulting in a catastrophic, global flood.

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

One potential problem is that the atmosphere may condense into large ice caps on the frigid night side of these planets, which could result in total atmosphere collapse and the loss of habitable conditions.

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.

Just a few thousand years ago: There were no ice caps on the planet.

Over its 10 - year life span, the spacecraft observed the Martian surface and atmosphere repeatedly, exposing details — like the shrinking carbon dioxide ice cap on the south pole — that would have been lost to onetime measurements.

I went up there with my adviser to measure an ice cap on northern Ellesmere Island.

Players will venture into a polar ice cap on Mars to explore epic adventures and activities!

Ana Bray, a Guardian long thought lost searches for a connection to her past - one that could be hidden forever beneath a polar ice cap on Mars.

It's remnants still exist, though thinning, as Barnes Ice Cap on Baffin Island.

The ice cap on 15,300 - foot Puncak Trikora vanished entirely sometime between 1939 and 1972.

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.

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions have revealed the presence of a CO2 ice cap on Mars» South Pole, which is annually subjected to deposition and sublimation.

By 2020, for example, indications are that the ice cap on Mt. Kilimanjaro could disappear for the first time in 11,000 years (Thompson et al., 2002).

Build an ice cap on that; you get water and silt being extruded out of the basins, even flowing «uphill» under that pressure; look at the radar maps, the ice may have pushed a lot of silt out to its edges over time, you can see the pattern of river drainage channels in the radar imagery.

... You continue to use the ice cap on Greenland as a proxy for the entire global temperature.

I am worried about your safety and your ability to deliver billions of Christmas gifts if the ice cap on the North Pole no longer stays frozen all year.

Not exact matches

On top of all this, all electric power generation produces heat, and too much generation will raise the earth's temperature, possibly enough to cause partial melting of the polar ice caps and wreak havoc on the world's ecospherOn top of all this, all electric power generation produces heat, and too much generation will raise the earth's temperature, possibly enough to cause partial melting of the polar ice caps and wreak havoc on the world's ecospheron the world's ecosphere.

Turn blender on, remove cap from the blender lid, and pour in additional liquid / ice as needed.

Old grizzled vets wearing ball caps emblazoned with military insignia wander by, hip young parents tote the next generation of foodies in baby carriers, Latina babes wearing impressively high heels and impossibly tight pants hang on the arms of their boyfriends while sucking on ice cream bars.

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.

The icing on the cake came in the final minutes with young sub Marcos Asensio firing home to cap a brilliant performance from Real.

Cool formula to ensure it is not too hot before feeding your baby by running the prepared, capped bottle under cool water or placing it into an ice bath, taking care to keep the cooling water from getting into the bottle or on the nipple.

This water bottle also has a large mouth piece and the cap unscrews, so you can add ice to the bottle for an extra chilly drink on an exceptionally hot summer day.

There is abundant evidence for the past presence of water on Mars but today it appears relatively dry, with water ice confined to the planet's polar caps.

And India is teaming up with the United States on a $ 1 billion satellite mission slated for launch in 2021 that will monitor natural disasters like earthquakes and erupting volcanoes and more gradual but potentially calamitous processes like melting ice caps.

The authors emphasize «the LIG record reveals that strong climate forcing is not required to yield major impacts on the ocean and ice caps.»

Today the small amount of water detected on the planet is locked in the polar ice caps, but recently discovered geological features suggest liquid water once flowed on its surface.

As Gore shows with a litany of statistics, maps, and charts — not to mention the film's stark images of drowning polar bears, crumbling ice caps, a Katrina - lashed New Orleans, and drunken trees sliding sideways on melting permafrost — global warming is really happening.

When it's cold enough to form ice shelves that extend over the Antarctic land mass and into the ocean, much of what drops to the seafloor is sand and gravel that the glacier has picked up on its slow march from the continent's ice cap.

Many agree that his research on ice caps across the world was some of the first, most convincing evidence that current climate change is due to human activity.

AGGRESSIVE tree - felling on mount Kilimanjaro could be partly to blame for its vanishing ice cap.

During ice ages, which are mainly driven by rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit and spin that alter sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, growing ice caps and glaciers trap so much frozen water on land that sea levels can drop a hundred meters or more.

More than half a kilometre beneath the Devon Ice Cap, scientists discovered two lakes whose extreme saltiness could make them a habitat for microbes — an environment that might also exist on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

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

El Niño thus leaves its mark on the Quelccaya ice cap as a chemical signature (especially in oxygen isotopes) indicating sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean over much of the past 1,800 years.

The earth changed from warm and even tropical «greenhouse» conditions to cooler «icehouse» conditions which saw ice - caps develop on Antarctica.

A team led by hydrospheric scientist William Krabill of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, used a laser altimeter to survey the ice height over southern Greenland by flying 400 meters above the massive ice cap.

This positive feedback phenomenon, called the runaway albedo effect, would eventually lead to a single dominating ice cap, like the one observed on Pluto.

On the other hand, you're standing in a place where, 12,000 years ago, there was an ice cap several thousand feet thick.

Drawing on odd, icy - looking landforms in earlier images, he and colleagues proposed in 2003 that in the geologic past, snow - fed glaciers and ice fields had covered much of the lower latitudes of Mars at the expense of the polar ice caps (Science, 11 April 2003, p. 234).