Sentences with phrase «melting at a rapid rate»

Glaciers and ice caps are melting at a rapid rate; animals and plants are shifting their range to accommodate warmer air and water; and planting seasons are changing, the report said.

With its ice cap and glaciers melting at a rapid rate, the island is at the center of climate change conversation.

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Based on what we know, we can expect the rapid ice loss to continue for a long time yet, especially if ocean - driven melting of the ice shelf in front of Pine Island Glacier continues at current rates,»

Either the glaciers would have to flow into the ocean at unrealistic rates, or rapid melting would have to be triggered over a much larger area of the ice sheet than current evidence suggests.

An ice - free North coast in the past few millenia says nothing about the desirability of driving ice melt (or climate change generally) at extremely rapid rates.

Outside of Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers are indeed melting almost everywhere, at an extremely rapid rate.

The Vice news program on HBO had an interesting story of how the Glacial land ice is melting in Greenland at a rapid rate.

Which is bringing warmer water to the surface at a pretty rapid rate, warming the surface and accelerating the rate at which this ice is melting.»

The IPCC 2007 Fourth Assessment of climate change science concluded that large reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, principally CO2, are needed soon to slow the increase of atmospheric concentrations, and avoid reaching unacceptable levels.However, climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated; global CO2 emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid.

The organization publicly apologized for the error, but Pachauri continued to assert that the Himalayan glaciers were melting at a «rapid rate,» according to Britain's Telegraph newspaper.

But now, new studies are starting to take these physical melt - amplifying processes into account and the emerging picture is one in which glacial melt and sea level rise may end up coming on at rates far more rapid than previously feared.

Scientists say that the rapid rate of ice melting in Antarctica may put the stability of the continent at risk by 2100.

Either the glaciers would have to flow into the ocean at unrealistic rates, or rapid melting would have to be triggered over a much larger area of the ice sheet than current evidence suggests.

Scientists have been alarmed by the increasingly rapid melting of Arctic sea ice, which reached a new record minimum this year and, if melting continues at similar rates, could be ice free in summer by the end of the decade.

239 Timothy, Hudson Bay was / is really melting fast, as the winter there was warm, eventually thinner ice do nt have a chance at the summer solstice, but I marvel at its rate of disappearance, so rapid and sudden.