Sentences with phrase «melting at an alarming rate»
Add to your check list of reality the fact that Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate (see RC threads on tropical glacier melt); enough so that flash flooding, from overflowing glacier - melt lakes, is a serious and life - threatening concern of downstream populations.
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The region's glaciers have been melting at an alarming rate where temperatures are rising at three times the global average.
Regional effects can be more dramatic: The Arctic is melting at an alarming rate.
Aerial view of the vast Greenland ice sheets that are melting at an alarming rate.
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If both ice sheets melted — a process already underway at an alarming rate in West Antarctica — global sea levels would rise 200 feet.
The melting of the Greenland icecap is accelerating at an alarming rate, about 500 billion tons at the last measurement.
The carbon pollution we continue pumping into the atmosphere is already causing our air and oceans to warm, glaciers and ice sheets to melt, and sea levels to rise at alarming rates.
And glaciers are melting and shrinking at alarming rates.
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.