Sentences with phrase «near the poles melted»

Future investigations could focus on details of how ice sheets near the poles melted during historic periods of warming.

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Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce «sparks» that could vaporize and melt the soil, perhaps as much as meteoroid impacts, according to NASA - funded research.

This occurs because as warming causes sea ice near the poles to melt, energy from the sun that would have been reflected away by the ice is instead absorbed by the ocean.

130,000 years ago temperatures near the poles were higher than today, forests growing up to the Arctic Ocean, all permafrost melted, ice free North Pole at least in summer.

Eventually, we will get to a state where there is enough heat absorbed during the summer, even at the shorter summer near the pole, to completely melt the sea ice.

So the ice melted before the CO2 increased I picked this up surfing the internt: «Glaciation For a number of reasons, the volume of glacial ice near the poles waxes and wanes over time.

A wooden pole that had been driven into the ice the year before now stands exposed as the Aletsch glacier melts and sinks at a rate of about 10 - 13 meters per year near Bettmeralp, Switzerland.

Melting ice that sits above sea level nearer the poles ends up adding more more mass nearer the equator as the now liquid water distributes itself across the globe at sea level.