Sentences with phrase «polar ice sheet collapse»

Geologic shoreline evidence has been interpreted as indicating a rapid sea level rise of a few meters late in the Eemian to a peak about 9 meters above present, suggesting the possibility that a critical stability threshold was crossed that caused polar ice sheet collapse [84]--[85], although there remains debate within the research community about this specific history and interpretation.

Not exact matches

Which is the more environmentally sensitive thing to do: let the Greenland ice sheet collapse and polar bears become extinct, or throw a little sulfate in the stratosphere?

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The report predicts that half of the world's identified tipping points — such as the collapse of polar ice sheets and the drying out of the Amazon rainforest — would be crossed under 2 ℃ warming, compared with 20 % of them at 1.5 ℃.

The Marcott paper is no different from Hansen» 88, Mann» 98, Mann» 99, the SPM of AR4, the drowned polar bears, the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet and glaciers everywhere.

What is significant about this paper is that GHG forcing that is supposedly causing exponential, run - away warming, collapse of the polar ice sheets, retreat of the worlds glaciers, etc since around 1960 is not visible at all in the sea level record.

As he frames the question: «Which is the more environmentally sensitive thing to do: let the Greenland ice sheet collapse and polar bears become extinct, or throw a little sulfate in the stratosphere?