EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said it best: «This isn't
just about glaciers and polar bears.
Not exact matches
I
just ordered the
glacier bundle
about a week ago so that's my favorite one, but I also love Night Sky
THE jewel - coloured hole in the
glacier is
just about big enough for me to fall into.
A groundbreaking 2016 paper, one of the first to conduct a large - scale analysis of shrinking mountain
glaciers around the globe, concluded that all but one of the 37 studied sites were «very likely» retreating because of climate change — and at 21 of those sites, the influence of climate change was
just about certain.
He agreed that overstatements
about the impacts are rampant in the Himalayas as well, saying, «The idea that 1.4 billion people are going to be without water when the
glaciers melt is
just not the case.
[Response: You'll find pointless quibbling
about the
glacier stuff from skeptics, including plenty who question the reality of the warming, not
just its cause.
With the digital revolution's
glacier period
just about played out, I fully expect at least one of the companies (probably Marvel) to adopt a more - aggressive - than - some - hoped - for same - day publishing philosophy when it comes to on - line iterations of their comics, and I expect them to adopt it soon.
Both the Mini Trek and Big Ice Perito Moreno tours allow you to actually hike on the
glacier —
about 2 hours for the Mini Trek and
just under 4 hours for Big Ice.
There is of course a lot of uncertainty
about the details, that affect the melt rates, we
just don't know how quickly warmer seawater will undercut floating
glaciers, and buildup of darker older snow / ice layers will increase the amount of absorbed sun light.
The situation regarding
glaciers on Mt. Kenya is probably more complicated than
just a question
about temperature — changes in precipitation pattern will also affect their mass balance.
TreeHugger has written
about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming — contributing a shocking amount to melting of
glaciers in the Himalayas is
just one example.
TreeHugger has written
about the growing acknowledgement that soot pollution is a major component of global warming — contributing a shocking amount to melting of
glaciers in the Himalayas is
just
[Response: You'll find pointless quibbling
about the
glacier stuff from skeptics, including plenty who question the reality of the warming, not
just its cause.
It's a leap to go from global warming to taxes but the Left has been getting away with your money using that kind of logic for years and whether they're sporting a fraudulent «hockey stick» or worrying
about the demise of polar bears or Rhode Island - sized
glacier named Aunt Bee calving off Antarctica, Western academia
just winks and counts the cash.
Join us on a journey to learn why the story of climate change isn't
just about melting
glaciers or disappearing polar bears, and not
just about a more dangerous world for far - off future generations.
Even if you claim that is a result rather a cause of falling temperatures, the fact that it is rising quickly means you don't have to worry
about glaciers in London or New York quite
just yet.
«We find that the access of warm water to the
glaciers and ice shelves in this region are almost controlled by a depth of
about 700 meters [2,300 feet], which is
just right above some of the warmest waters in the region,» said Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at UCI and co-author of the new study.
The trend in anthropogenic CO2 emissions was essentially flat and very low (averaging
just 1 gigaton of carbon [GtC] per year) from
about 1900 to 1945, when a significant portion of the modern
glacier recession occurred.
Join us on a journey to learn why the story of climate change isn't
just about melting
glaciers or disappearing polar...
Just another beach
about to be flooded by
glacier melt?
I rather think the answer is positive, and that answers
about GW questions are simple,
just like the meaning of
glaciers disappearing everywhere.
When I started looking at this topic the first thing that struck me was
just how much time is spent in the blogosphere debating the effects (real or imagined) of global temperature rise and how little time seemed to be spent on the key evidential science; as though retreating
glaciers, arctic sea - ice or coral bleaching said anything
about causality.
If you pick the Gangotri
Glacier, which is one of the longest in the Himalayas, at
about 30 km length, then the reported retreat rate of
just under 30m / year clearly indicates that unless things speed up dramatically, the
glacier will need of order 1000 years to disappear.