Sentences with phrase «of ice cap»

Little has been said in the media about climate change and health — usually what we hear about is polar bears, loss of the ice cap, dying species and flood risks.

Now if we POLLUTE the vast icy continent with salt water, we will surely start a massive melting of the ice cap.

«Protruding from the summit with nearly 2 feet of pipe high and dry, the marker appears to have melted out of the ice cap that covers the mountain's highest point.

Okay, so if a part of an ice cap (or glacier) is grounded on the sea bed (below sea level) that part is not defined as an ice shelf.

Loss of ice cap will decrease albedo to the point of causing an abrupt spike in temperature that will end 90 % of primary plant production, for two or three years.

Do the AR5 regional sea level rise estimates take into account gravitational effects of ice cap reductions?

E.g., Weertman offered calculations of ice cap instability in support of Ewing - Donn, Weertman (1961).

The data might be sensitive to changes of ice cover in the seas near Greenland, or to a local shift of the ice cap's glacial flow.

Natural Habitat Adventures, which offers polar bear viewing tours, recently admitted that flying folks up to the arctic would contribute to the melting of the ice cap that polar bears like so much.

8 High Latitude Climates The surfaces of ice cap regions are constantly covered with snow and ice.

At this link you can watch an animation of the shrinkage of Glacier Ampère, on the opposite side of the ice cap from Pasteur and Pierre Curie.

In 2008, the Observer happily reported that 2013 would be the date of the ice cap's demise, according to just one researcher's claim.

We are invited to believe that the extent of ice cap cover was something similar when the old moss grew.

Some areas will have accumulated more ice during the Late Holocene because of the geometry of the ice cap and so will take longer to melt out.

The erosion of an ice cap takes time and on Baffin Island, early and mid-Holocene melting did nt finish the job.

I'm not sure why you're dodging and weaving about the point, but if you have ice remaining from a previous ice age, then the fact that more ice has been deposited over the old ice and and around the margins of an ice cap when there's a cold but not ice - age period should be a given.

In 1817 the melting of the ice cap was, unlike now, apparently considered to be a GOOD thing.

Just since 1963, Mount Kenya has already lost 40 percent of its ice cap.

Pictures from space of the ice cap melting and other facts just don't seem to get in the way of «political logic».

I would say that this indicates a changed dynamic in the Arctic, especially when viewed as part of the long - term decline of the ice cap.

But I can post about a million remixes of Ice Cap Zone!

I'll not forget the tricky platforming of the Lost World, the simple joy of whooshing through Twinkle Park's amusements, or the thrilling — at the time — snowboarding section of Ice Cap.

(There are also baby spiders — with shorter «arms» — and «Swiss cheese,» which are pits in the carbon dioxide of the ice cap, along with a few other categories.)

Any studies on the depth of the ice cap?

Analyses of images from the New Horizon mission and modelling of the evolution of the ice cap help to explain how this polar feature was formed.

With the sun continuing to heat the ocean water at the tropical latitudes regardless of ice cap conditions up north, it would seem that the presence of an ice cap would result in a warmer ocean over the long term, with the converse also being true.

In fact, a third type of ecosystem exists along the edge of the ice cap in the northern Barents Sea, where Atlantic and Arctic ocean currents meet and mix.

«Due to the remoteness of the ice cap, we had to develop new tools such as a light - weight drill powered by solar panels to collect the 1983 cores.

The researchers also analyzed historical US army engineering documents to determine where and how deep the wastes were buried and how much that part of the ice cap had moved since the 1960s.

Such brine would freeze as it moved toward lower temperatures at the edge of the ice cap, forming a ring of concentrated salt.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the melting of the ice caps, the Egypt and the UAE aiming to secretly bomb militias in Libya, and the National Organization for Women's endorsement of gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout.

Small variations will expose the growth or wasting of ice caps, Tapley says, a more powerful method than measuring their heights with aerial surveys.

In addition, risks of negative consequences such as increased droughts and the complete melting of ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica definitively outweigh any potential positives, such as longer growing seasons in countries such as Canada and Russia.

If we can not change the weather back, the melting of the ice caps, the flooding of our cities, and the destruction of crops may be next.

«Considering that the surface is moving much faster than we had previously thought, it could also affect things like the stability of the ice caps and help us to understand past climate change.»

The United Nations scientific community is pointing to the overwhelming evidence that global warming, from increased greenhouse gas emissions, is propelling us towards an irreversible runaway melting of the ice caps and northern permafrost while rising temperature cause massive forest fires.

If I understand correctly, thermal expansion is an important factor, not just the melting of ice caps.

Reduction of ice caps on mountains, which is now occuring due to global warming, would have a similar effect.

Further, there is no correlation between volcanism in Iceland and the lack of ice caps:

The melting of ice caps in Greenland and the Antarctic could mean sea levels rising by 0.5 meters, the report says.

I stepped into the highlands of Namibia and saw the desertification of the place, the arid environment reminding man of the loss of water in places once considered the source of water, and a looming submerging of the coastal areas in the event of a large scale heating of the outer planet leading to the accelerated melting of the ice caps.

Several degrees of warming is not trivial, it would result in sea level rises large enough to wipe out many coastal areas which are currently heavily populated - parts of Florida, Bangladesh, India, Bangkok, etc, etc, quite apart from other changes possibly precipitated by the loss of the ice caps.

Even if warming continues just linearly, our current understanding of the ice caps suggests accelerating sea level rise past the middle of this century.

The researchers behind the study recorded the progress of ice caps and glaciers throughout the world over an eight - year period in order to estimate their contribution to sea - level rise.

Climate change is the long - term average of a region's weather events lumped together.There are some effects of greenhouse gases and global warming: melting of ice caps, rising sea levels, change in climatic patterns, spread diseases, economic consequences, increased droughts and heat waves.

Antartica also may suffer this, usually it is observe that some of ice caps found on Antartica are silently melting so resulting in high sea level which occurs or felt during high tides.

A small change in cloudiness over the rest of the Earth's surface can be far more important than major changes in the area of the ice caps.

The two scientists report in Nature Climate Change that if emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise as they are doing now, the thaw of the permafrost and the loss of the ice caps could release 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon now locked in as frozen organic matter.

Scientists used to think it unlikely, but this year reported that the melting of both ice caps had begun.

In the wider view, you can see glaciers drain out of ice caps between mountain peaks and ridgelines.