Sentences with phrase «much the land rises»

For the first time, scientists are now able to measure how much surface and groundwater is lost during droughts by measuring how much the land rises as it dries.

Calculation landmass rise is minimal as current science is incorrect in how much land rise there is as if you use their data, then at a billion year, the land was a million meters lower.

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The question that inevitably arises is, how much should the rise in home values be attributed to rising land appreciation, and how much to building costs.

Today's official statistics attribute so much of the price rise to the inflation of construction costs that in 1994 the value of all corporately - owned land in the United States was a negative $ 4 billion!

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They also ignore the rise of the secularized nation - state from the decay of «Christendom»; yet these new government regimes provided much of the impetus to maximize the exploitation of resources and the discovery of new lands.

Many of us might have looked at City's rise to fame and fortune as the prototype promised land of next levels after we followed their example by moving from an old much loved home into a new stadium at the end of an athletics tournament.

Dynamic models show that sea - level rise could inundate twice as much land on the Midway and Laysan atolls than the passive bathtub models do.

At the current rates that the sea is rising and land is sinking, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say by 2100 the Gulf of Mexico could rise as much as 4.3 feet across this landscape, which has an average elevation of about 3 feet.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

But some places are seeing a much faster rise — mainly because of sinking land.

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder - led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.

Planning for sea - level rise does not just depend on how much waters rise, but also how land levels change.

Since that time, the rise of the ethical fashion movement has pointed out how harmful denim dyes can be for the environment, and how much water, land and energy is wasted making jeans during the manufacturing processes.

I also very much appreciated a year of smart, well - crafted and clever genre films — Attack the Block (Joe Cornish), Limitless (Neil Burger), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Rupert Wyatt), Source Code (Duncan Jones), Stake Land (Jim Mickle)-- and one marvelous mess of a personal project: Sucker Punch (Zack Snyder).

For me it's much more than that, it's about an immigrant story of finding oneself in a new land and about rising nationalism in Europe and trauma and the effects and trauma and media and journalism and this media war and propaganda war between RBSS and ISIS.

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He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

There is a low coastal plain, much of it covered with mangrove swamp, but the land rises gradually towards the interior.The Maya Mountains and the Cockscomb Range form the backbone of the southern half of the country, the highest point being Victoria Peak (3,669 feet) in the Cockscomb Range.

In 2015, a sequel to Tomb Raider landed into the market and much like the reboot, Rise of the Tomb Raider was a big hit.

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Here we show that, globally, temperatures over land have risen as much on windy nights as on calm nights, indicating that the observed overall warming is not a consequence of urban development.

«The rate at which sediment is deposited and new land is created is much slower than the rate at which climate change and sea level rises are taking place,» he said.

Unfortunately the best description of it I can't find again but it basically models the earths crust and tries to provide a reasonable assumption of how much the crust would rise and this is used with the GRACE measurements to determine how much mass is ice and how much is land.

The higher the sea levels, the more damage most land - falling hurricanes will do with storm surge alone (unless it is in an ocean area where sea levels are not rising as much as others).

Heartland meeging did not see these person, even did not see the catestropic disaster in America, south clifornia drought wildfare, Denver mountine pine become yellow and bear no place to go, maypile tree can not made so much syrup, coastal land crupted, sea level rising let American herios graveyard sank into the water, many and many reality which global warming caused, all these I studied articles last 4 years about global warming.

Seems to me the debate about AGHG global warming and increasing TC frequency / intensity / duration boils down to the fact that as sea surface temperatures, as well as deeper water temperatures rise, the wallop of any TC over warmer seas without mitigating circumstances like wind sheer and dry air off land masses entrained in the cyclone will likely be much more devastating.

However, because they are partly submerged, their direct contribution to sea level rise is much smaller than the contribution made by the melting of an equivalent volume of (land - based) ice sheets.

However, as Timothy explained in # 121, in addition to the direct sea level rise that occurs when ice shelves melt, there is a much larger secondary effect, in that ice shelves act as a brake, greatly reducing the rate of flow of the glaciers behind them from the land to the sea; and when ice shelves melt, the rate of glacier flow increases quite rapidly.

During recent years (1993 — 2003), for which the observing system is much better, thermal expansion and melting of land ice each account for about half of the observed sea level rise, although there is some uncertainty in the estimates.

If Greenland becomes green, and all the land ice melts, can we really expect the sea level to rise by that much?

Rising temperatures in the next few decades will lead to a «massive» increase in vegetation in the lands bordering the Arctic, with as much as 50 % more tree cover.

Over the long - term, melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could yield as much as 10 to 14 feet of global average sea level rise, with local sea level rise varying considerably depending on land elevation trends, ocean currents and other factors.

Now, it also needs to be said that it is not just sea level rise that is the issue in flooding of low - lying lands — the issue is how far the waves on top of the sea level rise will reach — and this effect causes impacts much sooner than just the sea level rise itself.

The global warming theory has been based all along on the idea that the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would absorb much of the greenhouse warming caused by a rise in man - made carbon dioxide, then they would let off that heat and warm the atmosphere and the land.

The mere third of the 1 % of planetary land ice in the Arctic archipelago is disproportionately contributing to sea level rise as it melts much faster than the colder, bigger ice caps.

In recent decades, scientists have developed sufficient monitoring capacity to understand how much of sea level rise is due to thermal expansion (from ocean heating) and melting land ice.

Jim D: So the skeptics ARE saying that the thermometer temperature didn't rise that much over land, and that is why this is a big deal?

The fact is that if we can't greatly reduce fossil fuel use by the 2030 - 2040 range, by 2075 be will see a global average temperature rise of 3.5 to 4.0 degrees Celsius, which is also just about the time frame for world phosphate supplies to enter critical shortages that will eventually cut crop yields in half and require twice as much land and water to grow the same yield as previously.

In some places in the world, the study points to the possibility of a particularly devastating combination — sharp sea - level rise combined with major land subsidence because people are drawing so much drinking water out of the ground.

Notorious for... At a recent Scientific Alliance conference, a speaker attributed rises in sea - level around Japan not to climate change but to the machinations of the Japanese pineapple industry, which, it was claimed, is causing land to subside by drilling for too much fresh water.

So the skeptics ARE saying that the thermometer temperature didn't rise that much over land, and that is why this is a big deal?

In the regions of the world where sea levels are rising, much of it has to do with subsidence, or the land sinking (i.e., New Orleans, U.S.).

Once this La Nina faded, sea levels rebounded sharply, and that rise might have been incorrectly interpreted as some rapid acceleration in the long - term sea level rise, when in fact, mass was shifting back from land to ocean as rainfall patterns changed once more, but also much of the excess water on the land was draining back to the oceans.

The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted in a change in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.

Regarding Bangladesh, there was something in the press about a year ago that said Bangladesh is actually ADDING land area, because so much dirt / glacial silt is washed down the huge rivers, and is deposited in the deltas, so that even with sea level rise, more land is created.

If CO2 rises much faster in this century than the last, decreasing land ice can be expected to contribute more strongly to rising sea levels than to date.

It is that the actual real rise in inducted Land surface KE, as is the total KE «systemic additions» actually made over the past 400 years, are much higher than is noted by simple measure of temperature (in the cumulative manner these additions are really produced).

Once as much land as is possible is covered / uncovered the albedo feedback halts and with it temperature rise / fall halts too.

But it is gratifying to note how much greener our already green land has become as CO2 levels have risen.