Sentences with phrase «of glaciers around the world»

The striking before - and - after photographs showing the disappearance of glaciers around the world shocked me out of my doubting stance.

The study warns that, given no change in greenhouse gas emissions in the near future, around 99 percent of the glaciers around the world's tallest mountain will melt, drastically changing the surrounding environment.

But, it's beyond obvious that polar temperatures are increasing both significantly and quickly, and the same is true (but possibly less extreme) in sub-arctic areas, as witnessed by the unprecedented melting of glaciers around the world.

The melting of glaciers around the world is one of the hardest to ignore impacts of climate change (unless you don't believe your eyes).

This conclusion has subsequently been supported by an array of evidence that includes both additional large - scale surface temperature reconstructions and pronounced changes in a variety of local proxy indicators, such as melting on icecaps and the retreat of glaciers around the world, which in many cases appear to be unprecedented during at least the last 2000 years.

Given the increasing vulnerability of glaciers around the world to human - forced warming, there's a rising risk that seas could rise by 10 feet before the end of this Century.

«Change in average length of all glaciers around the world Credit: Figure adapted from Oerlemans, 2005»

Readers who are familiar with the climatological literature may recognize the data above as representing the mass balance of glaciers around the world.

The observations have implications for predicting the sea level rise that could accompany global warming and the melting of glaciers around the world.

Not exact matches

All of that has led scientists to see that the glaciers are losing almost 23 feet of ice each year and the specific glaciers studied all contribute to sea levels around the world into the Amudsen Sea.

Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»

This unique landscape attracts researchers from around the world to study microbe evolution, scars of geological disasters and even how glaciers behaved on Mars.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

It hopes to unite the international community of glaciologists in order to carry out at least another ten or so drilling missions at various glaciers around the world, both those of scientific interest and those threatened by climate change.

Around the world, hundreds of millions of people depend on high - altitude glaciers for their water supply.

Glaciers around the world are disappearing before our eyes, and the implications for people are wide - ranging and troubling, Twila Moon, a glacier expert at the University of Colorado Boulder, concludes in a Perspectives piece in the journal Science today.

It has always seemed to me that the retreat of mountain glaciers around the world is one of the most compelling pieces of evidence for global warming.

Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

Mountain glaciers are receding rapidly all around the world [26]--[29] with effects on seasonal freshwater availability of major rivers [30]--[32].

Eight page booklet: define glacier keywords; map skills page to locate and name glacial areas around the World; SPAG exercise about the glaciers on Mars; page to compare advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the glacial landscape of the Lake District; moral dilemma about whether people in the UK should be concerned with the melting of Himalayan glaciers; research page about glaciers in World cultures; and finally a page about Ötzi the Iceman and how his body was analysed by archaeologists

My adventurous nature and inability to say «no» have led me to some pretty amazing adventures around the world, from swimming with sharks in Belize to hiking on glaciers in New Zealand to playing a concert on the Great Wall of China.

During the two - month run of the show, the glacier accepted thousands of calls from around the world, expelling its own language of snaps, crackles, and plops while slowly melting.

Dan Kellog, an engineer (not climate scientist) on another blog, has raised the issue of once a glacier has melted away, the local temps could rise dramatically (and perhaps, averaged altogether around the world as glaciers melt away, increase the rate of global warming).

These wildfires release soot into the atmosphere, which accelerates the rate of melting of glaciers, snow and ice it lands upon, which can lead to less reflectivity, meaning more of the sun's heat is absorbed, leading to more global warming, which leads to even more wildfires, not to mention greater sea level rise, which is already threatening coastal areas around the world.

In a previous post entitled Worldwide Glacier Retreat, we highlighted the results of a study by J. Oerlemans, who compiled glacier data from around the world and used them to estimate temperature change over the last ~ 400 years.

OCEANS RISING FAST, NEW STUDIES FIND Melting ice could raise levels up to 3 feet by 2100, scientists say David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Friday, March 24, 2006 Glaciers and ice sheets on opposite ends of the Earth are melting faster than previously thought and could cause sea levels around the world to rise as much as three feet by the end of this century and 13 to 20 feet in coming centuries, scientists are reporting today.

Nick Gotts >... disappearance of high - altitude glaciers and snows on which around 1/6 of the world's population depend for water supply; drought - affected areas increasing; flood events increasing; disruption of fisheries; increase in malarial areas.

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Ice cores retrieved from shrinking glaciers around the world confirm their continuous existence for periods ranging from hundreds of years to multiple millennia, suggesting that climatological conditions that dominate those regions today are different from those under which these ice fields originally accumulated and have been sustained.

Thomas (1993), p. 398; Oerlemans (1994); Dyurgerov and Meier (2000); Oerlemans (2005) surveyed glacier records around the world and found that «for the period from 1900 to 1980, 142 of the 144 glaciers retreated»; see review by Alley et al. (2005).

The warming has melted glaciers around the world and has altered the behavior of many animals.

Around the world, climate change is melting glaciers that feed major rivers, contributing to drought - induced hydroelectricity blackouts, and threatening the water supply and river resources of billions of people.

Research has shown that glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, and Alaska, which has only 5 percent of the total ice Greenland has, lost a volume of ice equal to nine states 3 feet thick between 2004 and 2007 alone.

Glaciers are very sensitive to temperature change and as a result of climate change, glaciers around the world are in irreversible Glaciers are very sensitive to temperature change and as a result of climate change, glaciers around the world are in irreversible glaciers around the world are in irreversible retreat.

For the first time, the researchers used the satellite system called GRACE (for «Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment») to look at loss of ice by glaciers and ice caps around the world.

Besides these thousands of thermometer readings from weather stations around the world, there are many other clear indicators of global warming such as rising ocean temperatures, sea level, and atmospheric humidity, and declining snow cover, glacier mass, and sea ice.

Glaciers provide an important year - round source of water to many towns and cities around the world.

Bolivia, which is home to 20 percent of the world's tropical glaciers (glaciers that are located at high altitudes around the equator), is clearly panicked by the rapidity of glacial melt.

It notes that: 80 % of carbon dioxide emissions come from only 19 countries; the amount of carbon dioxide per US$ 1 GDP has dropped by 23 % since 1992, indicating some decoupling of economic growth from resource use; nearly all mountain glaciers around the world are retreating and getting thinner; and sea levels have been rising at an average rate of about 2.5 mm per year since 1992.

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Attenborough flies around with an expert showing that the ice that holds back the glaciers is cracking up and that there is a potential world wide disaster looming if one of these big ice chucks then breaks off.

Glaciers around the world are shrinking and at risk of disappearing, including those in the mountains of Asia whose ice melt feeds the continent's major rivers during the dry season.

Furthermore when solar flux dipped between the 1960s and 80s, a high proportion of Alpine glaciers, as well as glaciers around the world, stopped retreating and many began to advance as seen here in the Alps.

The glaciers of West Antarctica are already responsible for the majority of the Antarctic continent's contribution to global sea level rise, and if these glaciers were to completely collapse, sea levels could rise by at least four feet, potentially inundating coastal cities around the world.

Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000 - year - old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of heat - trapping «greenhouse» gases from smokestacks and tailpipes.

Research has shown that glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates, and Alaska, which has only 5 percent of the t... Read More

Like many large glaciers around the world, a huge portion of Totten's ice sits below sea level.

Mountain glaciers are receding rapidly all around the world [26]--[29] with effects on seasonal freshwater availability of major rivers [30]--[32].

It is virtually certain that the retreat of many glaciers around the world has been caused by climate change, a new study suggests.