Sentences with phrase «land ice grows»

When sea ice is gone, that is when land ice grows the fastest.

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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.

One «growing phenomenon in the Arctic [is] polar bears foraging on land as their primary habitat, sea ice, retreats,» Kintisch writes, which makes field work even more dangerous, and difficult, than it would be otherwise.

If 30 percent of the ice - free land is used to grow animals now, imagine if, you know, you need double the production of meat to meet the demands, you know; how much land then would you need to use?

Steve: And another factor you mention in the article is 30 percent of the land on the Earth that isn't covered with ice is used for grazing livestock and growing animal feed.

The land bridge forms during ice ages, when much of the water on the planet becomes part of growing continental glaciers, making the sea level much lower than it is today,» explained Shapiro.

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In the end, will there be rising pressure to settle that arm of land as the ice continues to pull back and grass grows in Antarctica?

Of course, if a sudden and protracted swing to the cold starts any time soon, the ice will begin to grow, and perhaps keep growing, and if the growing ice continues to dry land, the seas will also begin falling (again).

This new report, according to the New York Times, will assert that expected warming in this century will lead to wide - spread melting of land ice, extreme heat waves, difficulty growing food and massive changes in plant and animal life, probably including a wave of extinctions.

However, even though the Antarctic sea ice is growing, the continent's land - based glaciers continued to melt and shrink.»

Ice shelves grow through a combination of land ice flowing to the sea and snow accumulating on their surfaIce shelves grow through a combination of land ice flowing to the sea and snow accumulating on their surfaice flowing to the sea and snow accumulating on their surface.

This north / south asymmetry has grown since perihelion was aligned with the winter solstice seven to eight centuries ago, and must cause enhanced year - on - year springtime melting of Arctic (but not Antarctic) ice and therefore feedback warming because increasing amounts of land and open sea are denuded of high - albedo ice and snow across boreal summer and into autumn.

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As the polar ice caps grow or melt, the surface area of the earth covered by land relative to that covered by water changes.

Linden / Giessen is where one of the main series of the late Ernst Beck's 1942 «peak» in CO2 was based on: Further, land plants as usual grow on land, where CO2 levels are average 40 ppmv higher than background and even higher during inversion, giving at least a few hours of sufficient CO2 during ice ages.

How much it has grown is not stated in the paper: «Observational determination of albedo decrease caused by vanishing Arctic sea ice» http://eisenman.ucsd.edu/publications/Pistone-Eisenman-Ramanathan-2014.pdf but it seems very clear that Arctic sea - ice loss is in accelerating decline towards zero in the coming decades, meaning that this forcing will rise very substantially along with those from land - ice and snow cover decline.