Sentences with phrase «just about glaciers»

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said it best: «This isn't just about glaciers and polar bears.

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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 glacierabout 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.
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