Sentences with phrase «melt as a result of global warming»

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He first thought that the shift might be a result of global warming, as melting polar ice flowed toward the equator.

Anyway, in The Day After Tomorrow New Yorkers need not feel alone as the entire Northern hemisphere is subjected to freakish destructive weather as the polar ice caps melt because of global warming and paradoxically result in temperatures dropping to sub-Arctic levels.

No matter what short term metrics are applied, the Arctic is undergoing long term rapid melting, dominantly as a result of human - induced global warming and climate change.

Since global warming is the result of contra - natural processes (mostly of human - origin such as the chemical - industry / heavy - industry / carbo - engines etc.) ************************************************* The Laurentian glacier sheets melted off 18,000 years ago... The glacier covering the very spot upon which my office sits melted 10,000 years ago... And continued warming with glacier melting has has been present since then... Which corporation do we blame for that?

Global warming may not affect sea levels, study finds — January 11, 2008 Excerpt: Excerpt: The most pessimistic predictions of sea level rises as ice sheets are melted by global warming may have to be scaled back as a result of an extraordinary discovery that ice persisted when the Earth was much hotter than Global warming may not affect sea levels, study finds — January 11, 2008 Excerpt: Excerpt: The most pessimistic predictions of sea level rises as ice sheets are melted by global warming may have to be scaled back as a result of an extraordinary discovery that ice persisted when the Earth was much hotter than global warming may have to be scaled back as a result of an extraordinary discovery that ice persisted when the Earth was much hotter than today.

The Melting Arctic Melting Ice Displaces Walruses In The Russian Arctic Ice Melt Causing Death of Polar Bears And there were the pictures of polar bears stranded on sheets of floating ice, accounts of their deaths «as a result of Global Warming» and even a documentary about the plight of the polar bears.

The rate of global warming will result in reduced water density near the surface both directly as the result of surface layers expanding due to increased temperature and indirectly due to the fresh water from melts resulting in decreased salinity.

Although the melting of underlying permafrost will release huge amounts of the greenhouse gases blamed for fueling global warming, researchers who sampled three sites in boreal Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have discovered that the warmer, softer, wetter soil that results also promotes the growth of new mosses that capture and store about as much carbon from the atmosphere as the thawed ground releases.

The melting of ice that now covers land, such as mountain glaciers, also contributes to the sea - level rise and most likely results from global warming.

They use climate projections to identify new opportunities to exploit fossil resources that are becoming accessible as a result of melting sea ice and other consequences of global warming.