Sentences with phrase «massive ice loss»

Though you might assume that warming temperatures due to climate change are causing this massive ice loss, it's actually ocean currents that are the culprit.

Using multiple instruments, the scientists found evidence of massive ice losses and speeding ice flows.

Not exact matches

«Loss of sea ice has resulted in walrus hauling out on land in Alaska and Russia in massive numbers — these land haul outs result in trampling of their young,» Laidre said.

Despite an especially warm winter, the current extent of sea ice does not represent a new record low; nevertheless, the amount of ice loss is massive.

Ice loss from the massive ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating, according to a new stuIce loss from the massive ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating, according to a new stuice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica is accelerating, according to a new study.

In many places it's really about warming oceans reaching up under the ice to create massive losses.

The project aims to improve understanding of snow melt on ice shelves, floating extensions of the massive inland ice sheet which stabilize ice loss, and how melt will impact on ice shelf stability and sea level.

People are also still looking for a weight loss pill that will allow them to continue eating country fried steak, massive cinnamon buns and ice cream on a regular basis.

Our planet is well on its way toward failure to thrive — drought, mass starvation, massive loss of ice are just the beginning.

Oil — > Transport, Electricity — > 1) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Draughts, Hurricanes, Floods — > Lost crops, forests, homes — > CO2 fixing potential lost, Starvation, Diseases, More ressources / energy needed 2) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Ice caps and glaciers metling — > Earth natural climate stabilizers lost + massive CH4 release from pergelisoils & ancient ice melt 3) CO2 in water — > Oceans acidification — > Destruction of centennial / millenial coral reefs — > Loss of oceans» filters / pulmons / incubators / biodiversity reservoir — > Food shortIce caps and glaciers metling — > Earth natural climate stabilizers lost + massive CH4 release from pergelisoils & ancient ice melt 3) CO2 in water — > Oceans acidification — > Destruction of centennial / millenial coral reefs — > Loss of oceans» filters / pulmons / incubators / biodiversity reservoir — > Food shortice melt 3) CO2 in water — > Oceans acidification — > Destruction of centennial / millenial coral reefs — > Loss of oceans» filters / pulmons / incubators / biodiversity reservoir — > Food shortage

In recent decades, much research on these topics has raised the questions of «tipping points» and «system flips,» where feedbacks in the system compound to rapidly cause massive reorganization of global climate over very short periods of time — a truncation or reorganization of the thermohaline circulation or of food web structures, for instance, caused by the loss of sea ice or warming ocean temperatures.

While worries about rising sea levels are focused on the massive ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, the loss of small mountain glaciers comes with its own consequences.

Scientists are predicting that the loss of the massive Greenland ice sheet may now be unstoppable and lead to catastrophic sea - level rises around the world.

Scientists and politicians are keen to hold global warming to 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels because they fear that a world that warms to such a level will experience severe loss of ice, particularly from Greenland's massive shield of glaciers, and that the melting will in turn trigger considerable rises in sea levels.

(03/26/2013) Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.

However, the loss of such a massive ice berg from Larsen C, the present human - forced warming of the Antarctic land and ocean environment, and the presently observed thinning of the ice shelf all point toward a rising risk of destabilization or disintegration.

connection of the sea ice loss to a massive release of methane hydrates into the atmosphere on the time scale of a decade

It was the cold, dry ice ages that created frigid deserts, life - smothering ice sheets, retreating oceans and massive losses for all life forms.

Back in 2012, disturbing new footage from NASA satellites showed that the massive island's ice sheet was undergoing an unprecedented melt, resulting in a 97 percent loss of the surface sheet by mid-July.

Melting does happen every year but the melt rates due to the increased climate forcing is exceeding natural cycle tendencies for current conditions on a massive scale as it pertains to ice extent loss.

Recently, Steven Goddard writing for The Register backed off his earlier claim that the Arctic ice data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) were erroneous and that there was no massive loss of iice data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) were erroneous and that there was no massive loss of iIce Data Center (NSIDC) were erroneous and that there was no massive loss of iceice.

The ice loss is putative only dependent on an algorithm with massive uncertainty such that there may actually be a gain of ice in the West Antarctic.

Sudden water input caused by short term extremes, such as massive rain storms or the draining of a surface lake, however... allows [the meltwater] to pool and lubricate the bottom of the glaciers and accelerate ice loss.

Via Grist via Tom Raftery More on What You Need To Know About Arctic Ice 2009 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Minimum Third Lowest on Record - «Well Outside» Natural Variability Arctic Ocean Ice - Free in Summer by 2015, New Research Shows - Greenland Ice Sheet Shows Rapid Losses, Too Melting Ice Could Lead to Massive Waves of Climate Refugees How Will Global Warming Change Our Oceans?

Richard Peltier analyses satellite data of world ice cover and sees a clear massive and increasing rate of ice loss on Greenland and west Antarctica.

Climate scientists have linked the massive snowstorms and bitter spring weather now being experienced across Britain and large parts of Europe and North America to the dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice.