Sentences with phrase «major ice loss»

But the vast majority of these projections do not take into account the possibility of major ice loss in Antarctica.

If one examines the ensemble member shown in black in Figure 3, periods of stagnation in ice decline as long as ten years can be discerned between major ice loss events.

Once again the key to this glacier's second major ice loss this decade after limited retreat in the last century, is thinning of the floating tongue, which weakens the glacier.

Yes, there's still a small possibility that major ice loss will take more than one decade.

Not exact matches

«Loss of ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic continent could have a major effect on the rate of ice flow off the continent,» Scambos notes.

These prospectors are just one part of a major rush on resources, which will transform the Arctic as surely as the loss of ice.

The new result focuses on ice loss due to a major retreat of an outlet glacier connected to a long «river» of ice — known as an ice stream — that drains ice from the interior of the ice sheet.

We know, however, that rapid warming of the planet increases the risk of crossing climatic points of no return, possibly setting in motion large - scale ocean circulation changes, the loss of major ice sheets, and species extinctions.

Many scientists concede that without drastic emissions reductions by 2020, we are on the path toward a 4C rise as early as mid-century, with catastrophic consequences, including the loss of the world's coral reefs; the disappearance of major mountain glaciers; the total loss of the Arctic summer sea - ice, most of the Greenland ice - sheet and the break - up of West Antarctica; acidification and overheating of the oceans; the collapse of the Amazon rainforest; and the loss of Arctic permafrost; to name just a few.

If ice sheet disintegration reaches a point such that the dynamics and momentum of the process take over, at that point reducing greenhouse gases may be unable to prevent major ice sheet mass loss, sea level rise of many meters, and worldwide loss of coastal cities — a consequence that is irreversible for practical purposes.

Icebergs calving into the sea are a major source of Greenland's ice loss.

By my logic I'd apply the precautionary principle rather strongly if there was even a small chance of major effects such as near future sea ice loss...

Maslowski has stated resolution is a major factor in the «early ice free» implications of volume loss.

And the loss of the sea ice will mean the loss of an entire ecosystem, with repercussions that could include a major food chain, because of organisms that live on the underside of the sea ice.

Following this summer's new record ice loss, the Arctic will enter a winter with even less ice than ever before, leading to even thinner ice, which barring any monumental external events like a major volcanic eruption, will likely perpetuate the trend in sea ice decline.

It's clear to a range of scientists that the enormous loss of old, thick ice carried on currents from the Arctic out past Greenland into the Atlantic Ocean in recent years is a major factor that has led to sharp summer melting.

The northern melting will likely add to sea level rise explains lead author, Shfaqat Abbas Khan: «If this activity in northwest Greenland continues and really accelerates some of the major glaciers in the area — like the Humboldt Glacier and the Peterman Glacier — Greenland's total ice loss could easily be increased by an additional 50 to 100 cubic kilometers (12 to 24 cubic miles) within a few years.»

In another study, published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters and funded by NASA, researchers from the University of California, Irvine, found that increasingly rapid ice loss from the glaciers in Canada has made them a major contributor to the rise in sea levels.

«We identified meltwater runoff as the major contributor to these ice fields» mass loss in recent years.

The activists say warmer weather will cause «the loss of major ice sheets.»

In 2007, a highly unusual (about once in 20 years) weather pattern lasting all summer was the major contribution to sea ice loss.

This is extreme wishful thinking on their part since recent research finds black soot as being the major factor for polar sea ice loss.

Ultimately, this vicious cycle is playing a major role in the growing losses of snow and ice from the region, said coauthor Sarah Doherty, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Further, Figure 4 shows a major loss of sea ice extent through May; contributions to the loss were especially important from the Barents Sea and northern Baffin Bay (Figure 5).

Climate alarmists make major blunder in reporting Antarctica ice loss results: «Total ice loss from latest study is «consistent» with, not «double» prior study measurements»

2009 signals that it could be several more years, in a probabilistic sense, before conditions favor another major sea ice loss event.

Unlike 2007, which had a strong unusual wind pattern during all the summer months that contributed to major sea ice loss, summer 2012 meteorology was generally unremarkable, except for a strong storm in early August that contributed to sea ice breakup.

In 2009, August and September wind patterns were not conducive to major sea ice loss.

If ice sheet disintegration reaches a point such that the dynamics and momentum of the process take over, at that point reducing greenhouse gases may be unable to prevent major ice sheet mass loss, sea level rise of many meters, and worldwide loss of coastal cities — a consequence that is irreversible for practical purposes.

«As a result, the loss of glacier mass worldwide, along with the corresponding release of carbon, will affect high latitude marine ecosystems, particularly those surrounding the major ice sheets that now receive fairly limited land - to - ocean fluxes of carbon.»

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

The researchers failed to find any long - term trends in Arctic storminess, suggesting that summer weather hasn't been a major driver of the overall decades - long ice loss in the Arctic.

Much was made of this major loss rate and low extent in the press and sea ice blogs.

The major loss rate was particularly interesting given that we had considerable sea ice present in April (see last months discussion).

As the companion article to this one points out, virtually every major prediction of catastrophe that global - warming alarmists have made about the coming state of the environment over the past several decades — from melting sea ice and flooded nations to loss of snowfalls and increased climate refugees — has proven utterly incorrect.

«This new paper is not «the answer,»» «Particularly, replacing the simple assumptions about doubling times of ice loss with physically based insights is a major focus of our field, but is not yet done and not likely to be ready really quickly.»

Ice mass loss of the marine - terminating glaciers has rapidly accelerated from close to balance in the 2000s to a sustained rate of — 56 ± 8 gigatons per year, constituting a major fraction of Antarctica's contribution to rising sea level.

But the major TV news outlets have largely ignored the record sea ice loss this summer, while making ample time to cover Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's physical fitness.

As an aside, since that study almost certainly underestimated the rate of sea ice loss — for instance, it ignores black carbon, a major source of ice loss — I tend to think that the actual summer ice loss will be somewhere between what that study projected and the oversimplified quadratic projections in the figure above.

At a time when Arctic sea ice and snow cover are changing most rapidly, the loss of the all - weather monitoring capability of CMIS represents a major setback.

Since June, the major TV news outlets have devoted seven full segments to Paul Ryan's physical fitness and P90X workout routine, and only one to Arctic sea ice loss.

«Many scientists concede that without drastic emissions reductions by 2020, we are on the path toward a 4C rise as early as mid-century, with catastrophic consequences, including the loss of the world's coral reefs; the disappearance of major mountain glaciers; the total loss of the Arctic summer sea - ice, most of the Greenland ice - sheet and the break - up of West Antarctica; acidification and overheating of the oceans; the collapse of the Amazon rainforest; and the loss of Arctic permafrost; to name just a few.

A major limitation is the fact that the calibration phase for these semi-empirical models does not cover the range of climate - system behaviour that might be expected for the 21st century, i.e., significant loss of ice from the large polar ice sheets.

17 February, 2017 — Dramatic increase in ice loss from the Arctic glaciers of Canada's northernmost archipelago is now a major contributor to sea level rise.

Dramatic increase in ice loss from the Arctic glaciers of Canada's northernmost archipelago is now a major contributor to sea level rise.

Melting Arctic ice - sheets will reduce ocean salinities (IPCC, 2001), causing species - specific shifts in the distribution and biomass of major constituents of Arctic food webs, including poleward shifts in communities and the potential loss of some polar species (such as the narwhal, Monodon monoceros).