Sentences with phrase «possibly warm ice»

This could possibly warm ice and water behind those huge dams and result in the beginning of undercutting at the bottom part of the ice dam, as well as at the top.

Not exact matches

At first we thought that this was possibly the most useless discovery ever made, but then we realised that the ice could serve at least one beneficial purpose: Eskimos could put it in their drinks to warm them up.

Beneath an ice layer about 10 to 15 miles (15 - 25 kilometers) thick, the moon is thought to harbor a liquid water ocean, possibly warmed by geologic processes originating in the planet's core.

We know, however, that rapid warming of the planet increases the risk of crossing climatic points of no return, possibly setting in motion large - scale ocean circulation changes, the loss of major ice sheets, and species extinctions.

Ice - sheet responses to decadal - scale ocean forcing appear to be less important, possibly indicating that the future response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet will be governed more by long - term anthropogenic warming combined with multi-centennial natural variability than by annual or decadal climate oscillations.»

Could you comment on the recent articles about the reduction in sunspot activity possibly negating the effect of global warming and even putting us into another Little Ice Age.

This rise may have been eustatically controlled, possibly through a combination of thermal expansion of the oceanic water column and melting of unknown sources of high - altitude or polar ice caps in response to global warming.»

Another, possibly best case scenario, shows that if global warming did not exceed the 2 degree Celsius benchmark, the millennial sea - level rise from the melting of Antarctic ice could likely be restricted to a few meters.

Are you saying if the sea ice is an insulator between the water below and the air above, and the water is warmer than the air (warm enough to melt the ice), the melting ice would have a warming influence on the air above, and possibly could be the cause of all the warming of the air?

Bottom line is current epoch is an ice age and if there's any damn thing humans can possibly to warm it up to the normal non-ice age conditions it should be embraced not shunned.

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.

The climate forecast for 2100 looks to be about the same - the world's climate (s) will be about the same as today, possibly a bit warmer or cooler (<.5 degC), with rain, drought, hurricanes, large amounts of polar ice, and the possiblity of some worldwide disaster.

Indeed, the Minoan, Roman and Medieval warm periods suggest one cycle has a cycle length of ~ 900 years and most — possibly all — global warming of the last 300 years is recovery from the Little Ice Age which is part of this cycle.

We'd see a huge hotspot in the upper tropo in the arctic, but this would be heat leaving the system and there'd be a gain in arctic sea ice that would reduce warming and possibly act as a carbon sink.

It has been predicted that global warming from human activity in the twentieth and twenty - first centuries will heat the Earth so much and for so long that it will suppress the next ice age, which is not due to arrive for 50,000 years, and quite possibly several ice ages beyond.

Would you conclusion be that you couldn't possibly blame taking this latter amount that melted on the ice being in a warmer environment because the temperature in the room hasn't changed between the two times you checked on the ice?

Antartic must be a target as well for the ice is warming dramatically Southern ocean winds possibly contributing to this.

A problem that arises in the context of attributing any effect to CO2 is that since the end of the Little Ice Age, a natural warming has possibly increased the temperature monotonically, anthropogenic CO2 has increased monotonically, and deforestation and urbanization have increased monotonically.

MIS 11 also appears to have been possibly the warmest and longest interglacial of the past 5 million years and had an extended period with little or no continental ice, which is projected to occur under some future global warming scenarios.

Scientists are exploring the small but real possibility that even small shifts in ocean currents, possibly set in motion by global warming, may trigger the catastrophic melting of the world's two great ice sheets.

For example, the argument that follows very substantially from the extent of continental shelf that there is within the Arctic Basin and, therefore, the particular relationship that warming on that relatively shallow sea has on trapped methane - for example, the emergence of methane plumes in that continental shelf, apparently in quite an anomalous way - leading possibly to the idea that there may be either tipping points there or catastrophic feedback mechanisms there, which could then have other effects on things, such as more stabilised caps like the Greenland ice cap and so on.

At very best, his jumbled paper indicates that a) warming Arctic loses ice mass and b) the rate fluctuates with natural variability possibly driven by various influences.