Sentences with phrase «melting under its feet»

A solitary bear peers into the ice melting under its feet.

Michael Shannon is heartbreaking as a steady provider who finds the world melting under his feet — a male stoic without the words or social training to articulate his anxieties.

When the Secretary General of the UN recently visited Antarctica, the Associated Press report said the ice was melting under his feet with record high temperatures.

Not exact matches

«The walrus's essential habitat is melting under its very feet.»

The ice under the front of the shelf is melting at a rate of about 3.3 feet (1 meter) per year, so the creatures must be burrowing to stay inside the ice, Rack said.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

In Gore's movie, which I really need to rewatch, were the slides showing all the land that would be covered with sea based on the 23 inch increase projected by the IPCC, or the 23 FOOT increase that would occur under the assumption that Greenland melts?

The ice melted faster than the geostatic rebound and the area was subsequently submerged under about 200 feet of ocean.

If all the ice on Greenland were to melt, it would raise sea level by 7 meters (23 feet), but even under a high temperature rise scenario, it could take many centuries for it to melt completely.

But with 230 feet of potential sea level rise on the table, it doesn't take a whole lot more melting for a coastal city to be okay in one set of assumptions, and under water in another.

34 Temperatures Rising due to Global Warming Effects Glaciers melting Greenland — If all of the ice melts, oceans will rise 23 feet Antarctic — major reduction in ice coverage Permafrost in Tundra is releasing CO2 that is stored under the ice

put this on the back shelf right next to global warming melted the ice cap and NYC is under a foot of water

Based on this historical record and the fact that the Laurentide melted away under summertime temperatures similar to those expected in Greenland by the end of this century, Carlson and his colleagues forecast glacial melting that contributes somewhere between 2.8 inches (seven centimeters) and 5.1 inches (13 centimeters) of sea level rise per year, or as much as a 4.3 - foot (1.3 - meter) increase by 2100.