Sentences with phrase «including widespread melting»
It is clear that the 1C temperature rise over pre-industrial levels that we have seen so far has triggered a whole range of effects including widespread melting of mountain glaciers, significant sea level rise, devastating droughts, and flooding in various parts of the world.
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Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
But, as scientists including National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Jane Lubchenco said today at a press conference at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting, record - setting melting happened anyway: record snow melt, record sea ice minimum, melting even at the top of the Greenland ice sheet (in what was once called the «dry snow zone»), and widespread warming of permafrost.