Sentences with phrase «large global sea»

One of the most devastating potential impacts of global climate change is a large global sea level rise over the coming century and beyond.

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There has been a sea change in the interim, with a majority of larger international companies now considering China to be a market where they must prevail in order to have sustainable success on a global basis.

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

It is now becoming part of a larger stream, as all the cultural streams of the past begin to mingle in a global sea.

Investments and collaborations to promote environmental sustainability: Through global alliances such as the Trash Free Seas Alliance, founding of the bio-PET NaturALL Bottle Alliance, and investments in large - scale organizations like Closed Loop Fund, Keep America Beautiful and start - ups like RecycleUp, Nestlé Waters is collaborating with stakeholders across the PET value chain to create shared solutions to one of the world's most pressing environmental issues.

Combining Global Positioning System (GPS) and acoustic data, we detected very large sea - floor movements associated with this event directly above the focal region.

But the study, published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.

«Ice loss from this part of West Antarctica is already making a significant contribution to sea - level rise — around 1 mm per decade, and is actually one of the largest uncertainties in global sea - level rise predictions.

Due to global warming, larger and larger areas of sea ice melt in the summer and when sea ice freezes over in the winter it is thinner and more reduced.

In addition to the Asia heat wave, those events were the record global heat in 2016 and the growth and persistence of a large swath of high ocean temperatures, nicknamed «the Blob,» in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.

The Pine Island Glacier, which sits on part of west Antarctica, is the single largest contributor to global sea - level rise.

Greenland is more than twice as large as Texas and if the entire ice sheet melted, scientists estimate global sea levels would rise roughly 24 feet.

The global climate models do a good job of simulating the process of sea ice formation over large areas in the open ocean.

Since the 1990s, the retreat of glaciers in Alaska has made a disproportionally large contribution to global sea - level rise.

Our study underlines that these conditions have led to a large loss of ice and significant rises in global sea level in the past.

These discoveries were made possible by the enhancement of a global network to monitor sea - surface temperatures, under the auspices of TOGA and another large international study, the World Ocean Circulation Experiment.

The Greenland ice sheet is thought to be one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise over the past 20 years, accounting for 0.5 millimeters of the current total of 3.2 millimeters of sea level rise per year.

Deep - sea oil exploration will probably release future spills, Solomon says, and global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).

If global warming leads to an increase in monster storms, MacAyeal adds, then the entire Antarctic ice skirt could be in jeopardy: Larger sea swells could pulverize its huge icebergs and floating ice shelves.

Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Year

All this matters because ice melt in Greenland is the single largest cause of global sea level rise, which is affecting coastlines around the world.

Thanks in large part to satellite measurements, scientists» skill in measuring how much sea levels are rising on a global scale - currently 0.13 inch (3.4 millimeters) per year - has improved dramatically over the past quarter century.

The global increase in ocean heat content during the period 1993 to 2003 in two ocean models constrained by assimilating altimetric sea level and other observations (Carton et al., 2005; Köhl et al., 2006) is considerably larger than these observational estimates.

This implies that large - scale observations — for example, of global mean sea - level change or of the change mass of the Antarctic ice sheet — will not on their own significantly narrow the range of late - century sea - level projections for decades to come.

A large ensemble of Earth system model simulations, constrained by geological and historical observations of past climate change, demonstrates our self ‐ adjusting mitigation approach for a range of climate stabilization targets ranging from 1.5 to 4.5 °C, and generates AMP scenarios up to year 2300 for surface warming, carbon emissions, atmospheric CO2, global mean sea level, and surface ocean acidification.

The largest contibution to global sea level rise from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets combined is around 16.9 mm per year, but is more likely to be around 5.4 mm per year by 2100.

The important point is that the uncertainty is not about whether continued rapid CO2 emissions would cause large sea level rise, submerging global coastlines — it is about how soon the large changes would begin.

The series of large - scale woodcut prints will be exhibited locally and internationally, to bring attention to the impact rising sea levels due to global warming are having in Hawaii.

Numerous denier arguments involving slight fluctuations in the global distribution of warmer vs cooler sea surface areas as supposed explanations of climate change neglect all the energy that goes into ocean heat content, melting large ice deposits and so forth.

I think these are simply features of global climate that are embedded and as predictable as other large features like hurricane patterns, the gulf stream, the jet stream, sea ice extent and mass, global glacial conditions, sea level etc..

Global sea level rise is one of the most often cited potential large impacts of global climate change over the coming ceGlobal sea level rise is one of the most often cited potential large impacts of global climate change over the coming ceglobal climate change over the coming century.

I am very well aware and have previously blogged that there are multiple factors that determine the degree of ice lost any given year — but the literature is clear that even in 2007, global warming played «a large part» (see «What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?

Even with the increasing summer retreats of sea ice, which climate scientists say are being driven in large part by global warming caused by humans....

However, I've never seen a single media article in any U.S. press outlet that covered these issues — the large - scale evidence for global warming (melting glaciers, warming poles, shrinking sea ice, ocean temperatures) to the local scale (more intense hurricanes, more intense precipitation, more frequent droughts and heat waves) while also discussing the real causes (fossil fuels and deforestation) and the real solutions (replacement of fossil fuels with renewables, limiting deforestation, and halting the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil.)

The most comprehensive global evaluation of fisheries bycatch impacts on large marine species, published this month in the journal Ecosphere, revealed that sea turtle populations in the East Pacific, North Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, and Mediterranean face higher bycatch and mortality rates.

First, there is room for disussion regarding whether a modest amount of global warming is bad, but I don't believe there can be much debate that a large amount of global warming would be horrible — there is no easy work - around for the relocation of a third of the world's major cities due to sea - level rise.

Even with the increasing summer retreats of sea ice, which polar scientists say probably are being driven in large part by global warming caused by humans....

The simple approach is only valid for the initial sea level response to large and rapid rise in global temperature, as sketched in Fig. 1 of my paper.

But seen the environmental global CRISIS of GLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL plankton will be bred in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course in the seas and oceans so that sea - organisms / life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisglobal CRISIS of GLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL plankton will be bred in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course in the seas and oceans so that sea - organisms / life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisGLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL plankton will be bred in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course in the seas and oceans so that sea - organisms / life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisoning.

Subject of some specific concern about global warming because of large temperature rises predicted for the arctic, and because of some arctic - specific feedback effects (e.g. the albedo feedback following loss of arctic sea ice).

In one projected event, large parts of the ice sheet melt and drain into the ocean over the next millennia, raising global sea levels by several tens of meters.

«Alaskan and immediately adjacent Canadian glaciers supply one of the largest measured glaciological contributions to global sea level rise (~ 0.14 mm yr - 1, equivalent to new estimates from Greenland).

For example, if this contribution were to grow linearly with global average temperature change, the upper ranges of sea level rise for SRES scenarios shown in Table SPM - 3 would increase by 0.1 m to 0.2 m. Larger values can not be excluded, but understanding of these effects is too limited to assess their likelihood or provide a best estimate or an upper bound for sea level rise.

But it does say; «Natural climate variations, which tend to involve localized changes in sea surface temperature, may have a larger effect on hurricane activity than the more uniform patterns of global warming...»

Why use individual tide gauge records when we have perfectly good combinations, from much larger samples, which give a global picture of sea level change and show vastly less noise?

The Greenland ice sheet, earth's second largest after Antarctica, holds enough ice that, if it were to melt entirely, it would raise average global sea level by about seven meters.

Scientists have discovered two seafloor gateways that are hastily melting East Antarctica's largest and most rapidly thinning glacier, threatening to raise global sea levels.

Currently, we are in a period of global cooling and «Arctic sea ice extent... for April 2010 was the largest for that month in the past decade.»

In theory, if a large mass of glaciers or ice sheets melted, this could cause a global sea level rise.

The desire to avoid large ice sheet shrinkage and sea level rise implies a need to get global temperature back into or close to the Holocene range on the time scale of a century or less.