Sentences with phrase «many glaciers around the world»

Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»

Glaciers around the world are melting and contributing to sea level rise, but scientists still don't quite understand how exactly glaciers give birth to icebergs as they flow into the ocean and lose ice.

Understanding the ocean's influence could help reveal how glaciers around the world are feeding the rising seas.

It hopes to unite the international community of glaciologists in order to carry out at least another ten or so drilling missions at various glaciers around the world, both those of scientific interest and those threatened by climate change.

Glaciers around the world are disappearing before our eyes, and the implications for people are wide - ranging and troubling, Twila Moon, a glacier expert at the University of Colorado Boulder, concludes in a Perspectives piece in the journal Science today.

The striking before - and - after photographs showing the disappearance of glaciers around the world shocked me out of my doubting stance.

The study warns that, given no change in greenhouse gas emissions in the near future, around 99 percent of the glaciers around the world's tallest mountain will melt, drastically changing the surrounding environment.

It has always seemed to me that the retreat of mountain glaciers around the world is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for global warming.

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Glaciers around the world are melting away, affecting Summer water flows.

Ice cores retrieved from shrinking glaciers around the world confirm their continuous existence for periods ranging from hundreds of years to multiple millennia, suggesting that climatological conditions that dominate those regions today are different from those under which these ice fields originally accumulated and have been sustained.

The warming has melted glaciers around the world and has altered the behavior of many animals.

But, it's beyond obvious that polar temperatures are increasing both significantly and quickly, and the same is true (but possibly less extreme) in sub-arctic areas, as witnessed by the unprecedented melting of glaciers around the world.

Mountain glaciers around the world have been on the wane as well.

Research has shown that glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, and Alaska, which has only 5 percent of the total ice Greenland has, lost a volume of ice equal to nine states 3 feet thick between 2004 and 2007 alone.

Glaciers are very sensitive to temperature change and as a result of climate change, glaciers around the world are in irreversible retreat.

It notes that: 80 % of carbon dioxide emissions come from only 19 countries; the amount of carbon dioxide per US$ 1 GDP has dropped by 23 % since 1992, indicating some decoupling of economic growth from resource use; nearly all mountain glaciers around the world are retreating and getting thinner; and sea levels have been rising at an average rate of about 2.5 mm per year since 1992.

Glaciers around the world are shrinking and at risk of disappearing, including those in the mountains of Asia whose ice melt feeds the continent's major rivers during the dry season.

Furthermore when solar flux dipped between the 1960s and 80s, a high proportion of Alpine glaciers, as well as glaciers around the world, stopped retreating and many began to advance as seen here in the Alps.

The melting of glaciers around the world is one of the hardest to ignore impacts of climate change (unless you don't believe your eyes).

This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes both additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators, such as melting on icecaps and the retreat of glaciers around the world, which in many cases appear to be unprecedented during at least the last 2000 years.

Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000 - year - old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of heat - trapping «greenhouse» gases from smokestacks and tailpipes.

Research has shown that glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, and Alaska, which has only 5 percent of the t... Read More

Given the increasing vulnerability of glaciers around the world to human - forced warming, there's a rising risk that seas could rise by 10 feet before the end of this Century.

Like many large glaciers around the world, a huge portion of Totten's ice sits below sea level.

Arctic sea ice and glaciers around the world have been dwindling quickly.

The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) collects annual mass balance data from alpine glaciers around the world.

It is virtually certain that the retreat of many glaciers around the world has been caused by climate change, a new study suggests.

The researchers hope their findings will feed into future IPCC reports, strengthening the panel's conclusions on how climate change is affecting glaciers around the world.

«Change in average length of all glaciers around the world Credit: Figure adapted from Oerlemans, 2005»

The research isn't only relevant to the past - it's likely that climate change will affect the stability of cold hanging glaciers around the world.

Glaciers around the world have retreated at unprecedented rates and some have disappeared altogether.

A series of benchmark glaciers around the world were chosen where annual mass balance would be monitored.

Readers who are familiar with the climatological literature may recognize the data above as representing the mass balance of glaciers around the world.

The observations have implications for predicting the sea level rise that could accompany global warming and the melting of glaciers around the world.

Hopefully by now you've digested the message that most of the glaciers in the Himalaya are indeed retreating even though some advancing (as are, by and large, glaciers around the world)-- and that climate change is causing this.

http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/askascientist/question18.php If all the ice covering Antarctica, Greenland, and in mountain glaciers around the world were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet).

If all the ice covering Antarctica, Greenland, and in mountain glaciers around the world were to melt, sea level would rise about 70 meters (230 feet).

With few exceptions, glaciers around the world have retreated at unprecedented rates over the last century.

Similar detailed studies are vital to develop accurate models that predict how climate change will affect glaciers around the world, Prof. Briner says.

Not exact matches

All of that has led scientists to see that the glaciers are losing almost 23 feet of ice each year and the specific glaciers studied all contribute to sea levels around the world into the Amudsen Sea.

This unique landscape attracts researchers from around the world to study microbe evolution, scars of geological disasters and even how glaciers behaved on Mars.

In fact, around the world glaciers are melting three times as fast as they were in the 1980s.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

Scientists aim to find out why an Alaska glacier is ignoring all climate signals as it advances to the sea — and what that means for sea levels around the world.

Around the world, hundreds of millions of people depend on high - altitude glaciers for their water supply.

Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

Mountain glaciers are receding rapidly all around the world [26]--[29] with effects on seasonal freshwater availability of major rivers [30]--[32].

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