Sentences with phrase «melting icecaps»

Shoppers concerned about melting icecaps wouldn't have to scratch their heads and wonder how many food miles a tomato has traveled, or fret about whether a tightly packed ship full of produce from Chile emits more carbon than having everyone haul groceries in their SUVs from the local farm.

Not just dwindling freshwater supplies, which one speaker guessed would become a greater problem than the energy crisis, but also rising oceans as a result of melting icecaps.

The jury's still out on whether or not it's green to make beer from global warming - induced melting icecaps.

This materially changes the «speed of heat» through the atmosphere and causes the surface / atmosphere system to achieve a new higher energy state near the surface (i.e. melting icecaps, etc. etc. etc. etc.).

Along the way, there are examples of how nature is changing - from migrations to melting icecaps to rising coastlines - and how these changes have been observed.

How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate is a very child friendly, easy - to - read book that helps readers better understand the climate crisis by giving solid evidence, such as bird migratory patterns and the melting icecaps, to explain what is happening.

Every Emperor Penguin unable to lay an egg due to unreliable temperature statistics at the British Antarctic Survey means another polar bear drowning due to melting icecaps.

Chen's team used GRACE data to model how melting icecaps affect Earth's mass distribution.

If we hit two degrees Celsius, the changes the earth faces will be permanent — extreme habitat and biodiversity loss, coupled with melting icecaps and rising sea levels.

The United States should respond to melting icecaps like it would respond to a foreign invasion, Sanders said:

The US government spends $ 2.5 billion per year on research that focuses on carbon dioxide, ignores powerful natural forces that have always driven climate change, and generates numerous reports and press releases warning of record high temperatures, melting icecaps, rising seas, stronger storms, more droughts and other «unprecedented» crises.

By midnight tonight, it will be gone forever — drowned by the melting icecaps of the disappearing Arctic.

An audio work combines Ariana Grande's pop hits with recordings of melting icecaps, hurricanes and other environmental disasters (produced with Jan Piasecki).

That's pretty alarming, especially when considered in the context of other positive feedbacks including changes in albedo from melting icecaps and release of carbon and methane from thawing permafrost.

Melting icecaps, mass flooding, megadroughts and erratic weather are no laughing matter.

Sometimes I think the fatal flaw of humans reduces to our unwillingness to give a crap about the future (inequality, recession, melting icecaps) when we can have something today.

NEWS: Scientists have found evidence suggesting that melting icecap water from the interior of Greenland is adding to sea level rise faster than previously realised

There is an issue with the melting icecap but (for the very reasons you list) the albedo of the poles is not as important as it might first appear.

This suggests another thought provoking article you could write about the «melting icecap reducing albedo which leads to run - away warming.»

«Continuing to increase burning coal, oil and gas will soon drive atmospheric CO2 well over 400 ppm and ignite a devil's cauldron of melted icecaps, bubbling permafrost, and combustible forests from which there will be no turning back,» Hansen says.

NEWS: Scientists have found evidence suggesting that melting icecap water from the interior of Greenland is adding to sea level rise faster than previously realised

Previous studies of satellite and submarine observations have seemed to establish a warming trend in the northern polar region and raise the possibility of a melting icecap.

Not exact matches

From today the entirepolar icecap of Catholic sexual morality has started to melt.

But I say it creates enough heat to melt the polar icecap!

As contemporary signs of global warming, Schneider and his colleagues point to rapidly melting polar icecaps, ocean acidification, loss of coral reefs, longer - lasting droughts, more devastating wildfires, and rising sea level.

Recent monitoring does suggest a significant weakening but debate continues over whether the gulf stream may «switch off» as a result of the increased flows of fresh water from northern latitude rainfall and melting of the Greenland icecap.

If for example the recent increase in speed of glacial melting is not noise but a real trend, icecap melting tends to provide faster feedback than other forcings thus will give worse results.

With lots of charts and graphs of geological ages, real climate change in our life - time was totally dismised; and his own research in measuring the density of icecaps via core samples was used to discount the melting of glaciers.

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

The melting of the Greenland icecap is accelerating at an alarming rate, about 500 billion tons at the last measurement.

The icecaps are melting ever faster, and most people don't see the implications of that yet.

Kevin Costner stars as the enigmatic drifter known only as «the Mariner», at a time when the world has been covered with water from the melted polar icecaps.

Warmind Rasputin is an AI that is causing problems throughout Mars where icecaps have melted revealing things that might have been best left frozen away.

In this new series, polar icecaps melt, a trafficker drifts, Aleppo and its inhabitants fall, ghosts hover and Hamlet questions.

So even before it began sea level was much higher, the icecaps had already melted — then something else happened....

Hank Roberts: So even before it began sea level was much higher, the icecaps had already melted — then something else happened....

[Summary: Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting, opening up access to massive natural resources and creating shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year.

That'd be a hint that warm water could indeed get in under the icecap once the edges melt off, unblocking the deep channels and allowing water to circulate in and out from the southern ocean — wouldn't it?

this doesn't in itself discredit the AGW model, but it certainly should put a damper on the most recent gyre of hysteria vis - a-vis the recently rapidly melting arctic icecap.

The context is very clear, and Gore does not, I repeat NOT, refer to icecap melting until after he has made his linkage of the storms to global warming.

Icecaps are melting faster now in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and glaciers.

I would be suprised if the increased flow of cold water from the melting polar icecaps could decrease the total heat content of the oceans, given the amount of additional heat that must be in the oceans that is causing the coral bleaching episodes throughout the tropics.

He then moves on to polar icecap melting.

The incredible floods, storms, droughts, heat waves, icecap melting is happening NOW!

That's why the polar icecap is melting.

it informs you of how cofusing the icecaps melting is.

It makes people think twice about whether the icecaps melting is manmade r natural.

And more, continuing to look up the claims that icecap ice only melts at the edge, from Benny Peiser's latest newsletter.

Icecaps and emotions can both melt down from inside and underneath as well as from contact at the edges, that's the connection (grin).

In other words, the expedition is experiencing the very conditions it set out to study — namely the various kinds of sea ice that scientists know are increasing around Antarctica, while the icecaps on Antarctica are known to melt.