Sentences with phrase «on glacier melt»

I wonder how much impact it has had on glacier melt?

Especially since even your own scientists write the evidence for an anthropogenic influence on glacier melt is «weak» for that hemisphere?

Greenpeace is on expedition in the Arctic this summer to record the life systems on the sea floor of the Arctic Ocean for the first time and to continue work on glacier melt in Greenland.

As the Ohio State University climatologist Lonnie G. Thompson, a world - renowned specialist on glacier melt, explained in 2010, «Climatologists, like other scientists, tend to be a stolid group.

All of the «Stans» (Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, etc.) are also dependendant on glacier melt, as are most of the Andean countries in South America (e.g. see here, here and here).

A large chunk of humanity is dependent on glacier melt (also snowpack melt — e.g., I think in the U.S. west).

Since we're on Q&A s, an engineer brought up a point about ice melting in a glass of water (in an attempt to shed light on glacier melt, etc).

Much like how a wrong date on glacier melting doesn't undermine the fact that they are indeed still melting and that it's something to be concerned about, but I digress...

Not exact matches

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Ulyana Nadia Horodyskyj is a glaciologist who operates a scientific outreach program in Nepal and analyzes lakes that form on melting glaciers high in the Himalayas.

For example, the rise in immediate cost of transportation, in a context where its indirect effects on speeding the melting of the glaciers are recognized, will almost certainly favor local production of food.

With melting glaciers and crowding tourists, this volcanic land seems on the brink of seismic change.

Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Rajendra Pachauri's position is looking increasingly untenable with the revelation that he sat on the discovery that one of the IPCC's claims about melting glaciers was without foundation before the Copenhagen summit.

Scientists have long suspected Greenland's melting may be accelerated by the ocean (SN Online: 7/6/11), but needed data on fjord depth and glacier thickness to prove it.

Speaking at a development summit, India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came out in full support of the beleaguered IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri, the first time Singh had addressed the issue after IPCC offered its «regret» on the blunder it committed in predicting that glaciers in the Himalayas would melt away by 2035.

Located approximately 16 to 2,300 feet below the glacier, the five ocean sensors are connected to a weather station at the surface, creating the first cabled observatory on a floating, moving, and rapidly melting Greenland glacier.

After a glaciologist from Alaska believed she heard trapped air bubbles escaping the ice, she teamed with other scientists from Texas to eavesdrop on bits of melting glacier ice taken from Gulkana Glacier in Alaska.

More than 80 % of the ice on Africa's highest peak has melted since the early 20th century, joining other glaciers that are ebbing from the world's tropical mountains at an accelerating rate.

An alga species that grows on glaciers gives the snow a crimson hue, which increases the amount of sunlight that the snow soaks up and makes it melt faster, new measurements confirm.

Dirt and stones rain down on the scientists as the cave ceiling slowly melts, and the crushing pressure of the glacier overhead generates an unnerving crackling.

Some glaciers on the perimeter of West Antarctica are receiving increased heat from deep, warm ocean currents, which melt ice from the grounding line, releasing the brake and causing the glaciers to flow and shed icebergs into the ocean more quickly.

This allowed them to calculate the redistribution of mass on Earth's surface due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and mountain glaciers, and model the shift in Earth's axis.

It is doing so because it is concerned about its environment: the air quality in its cities, the water it is dependent on from the melting glaciers of the Himalayas.

The ice cores showed the glaciers on Mt. Hunter are melting more now than at any time in the past 400 years.

The role of red pigmented snow algae in melting Arctic glaciers has been strongly underestimated, suggests a study to be published in NATURE Communications on June 22.

Bands of darker ice with no bubbles indicated times when snow on the glacier had melted in past summers before re-freezing.

«Our timing was serendipitous, as it meant we were able to see changes in microbial processes over an extremely fast melting season and observe a process from start to end across all habitats on a glacier surface.

There will be 57 different sessions and none of them will be on whether there will be a four - inch glacier melt or a two - inch.

«We know that many Himalayan glaciers are melting rapidly, and our work suggests that more black carbon is getting deposited on them than previously thought.»

I spoke to him back on July 24th, just before he left for an extended visit to the melting glaciers of Greenland; I called him at his office in Washington, D.C.

These include the investigation into leaked e-mails from University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) gaffe about rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers, and the failure to achieve a strong outcome at the Copenhagen climate conference last December.

Based on his experience in the Rio Santa — where it was once assumed that 80 percent of water in the basin came from glacier melt — Mark said he expects to find that the impact of monsoon water is greatly underestimated in the Himalayas.

The answers could turn the conventional wisdom about glacier melt on its head.

The data allowed them to calculate the redistribution of mass on Earth's surface due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and mountain glaciers, and the resulting rise in sea level.

-- melting of land ice in Greenland and the Antarctic; melting of glaciers in the Himalaya and Alaska; or melting of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean.

Roberts found that when warm water melts Totten from below, it causes the base of the glacier that's usually grounded on the seafloor to float.

The climate change and melting [of glaciers and polar ice] issue is obviously something that's apparently under way and can not be turned on a dime.

Snow on the glaciers is melting, causing more water to flow into valley, and this means more water for irrigation.

«If ice caps and glaciers were to continue to crack and break into pieces, [the amount of] their surface area that is exposed to air would be significantly increased, which could lead to accelerated melting and much - reduced coverage area on the Earth,» Buehler said in a statement.

«There is evidence for global warming on a number of levels, and the planet has been warming, the oceans have been taking up heat, sea levels have been rising, land snow has been melting, glaciers are melting, and all these other things, so the reality of global warming is uncontroversial.»

She recently worked with a biologist in Washington, for example, on a paper about how narwhals use glacial fronts in summertime — the tusked marine mammals appear to be attracted to glaciers with thick ice fronts and freshwater melt that's low in silt, though it's not yet clear why.

There also was an assumption that many melting glaciers on the ice sheet's periphery eventually would retreat to higher ground on this flat bedrock, cutting off contact with warm ocean waters and slowing down the ice sheet's shedding.

Some of that new information centers on the effects of glacier melts in Greenland and Antarctica.

After an extreme ice age known as snowball Earth, in which glaciers extended to the tropics and ice up to a kilometre thick covered the oceans, the melted ice formed a thick freshwater layer that floated on the super-salty oceans.

If a glacier loses mass from enhanced melting, it may start floating farther inland from its former grounding line, just as a boat stuck on a sandbar may be able to float again if a heavy cargo is removed.

The grounding line is important because nearly all glacier melting takes place on the underside of this floating portion, called the ice shelf.

Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers.

Pollution on the Himalayan glaciers, for instance, is raising concerns that it will speed melt rates and harm water supplies.

For example, melting glaciers in Greenland are shifting the distribution of water on Earth, and nudging the planet's axis.

«The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize - winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.