Sentences with phrase «raise ocean levels»

Wouldn't that bring about massive famine all around the equator and raise the ocean levels sufficiently to inundate many cities?

yes it appears the Arctic and Antarctic Ice is thinning and will likely raise ocean levels which will flood many coastal cities.

This new map allows scientists to determine the age of large swaths of the second largest mass of ice on Earth, an area containing enough water to raise ocean levels by about 20 feet.

This in turn raises ocean levels sufficiently to endanger the habitation of those living near sea - level.

Gladwin Hill, «Warming Arctic climate melting glaciers faster, raising ocean level, scientist says,» New York Times, May 30, 1947.

This prediction was seized upon by global warming advocates as «proof» that the South Pole's unprecedented warming would melt sea ice and cause melting ice sheets to collapse, raising ocean levels and thus submerging worldwide coastal areas.

If one looks at the science, it is just as likely that a doubling of CO2 will result in less than 2C and be a great benefit to humans, as that it will cause huge damages, drought, and ice - melt that raises the ocean levels catastrophically.

Not exact matches

The melting adds between 120 and 140 tons of ice to the ocean, which scientists say will raise water levels globally anywhere from 1.33 to 1.5 inches each year.

The melting of the arctic ice and the Greenland glaciers along with the warming of the ocean will raise sea levels and flood some of the world's most populous and fertile regions, the deltas of the great rivers.

Context Russ: Just because our hands are inadequate to raise the level of the ocean, does that mean we do not matter to our families and friends?

«Our proposals will raise protection and management of our seas to a new level, halting the decline in biodiversity to create clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas.»

Warming temperatures causes ocean water to expand, which raises sea level and glacial ice to melt that creates water that makes its way into ocean basins.

If global warming melts the world's glaciers and raises sea levels, the first to know about it will be the citizens of the Maldives, a low - lying chain of island atolls in the Indian Ocean.

But the bad news, says a researcher, is that the sections most likely to be released into the ocean would raise sea levels globally by 3.3 metres — and rather more on the shores of North America.

When floating ice shelves disintegrate, they reduce the resistance to glacial flow and thus allow the grounded glaciers they were buttressing to significantly dump more ice into the ocean, raising sea levels.

These rapidly - moving glaciers protect Antarctic ice from erosion by ocean waters, which otherwise would raise worldwide sea levels by some 50 feet.

Since ice shelves act like plugs, removing them lets inland glaciers flow faster into the ocean, and that will raise sea levels.

«This is, of course, an important process, because the ice that melts there ends up in the ocean and raises sea level.»

Fresh meltwater pouring into the ocean from Greenland raises sea level and could affect ocean ecology and circulation.

Since Larsen C's ice already floats in the ocean, the big break - off won't immediately raise global sea levels.

Given the vastness of the oceans, it may be hard to imagine that warming seas and melting glaciers could raise sea levels enough to inundate thousands of miles of coastline.

Only 30 percent of respondents answered the sea - level question correctly; Greenland and Antarctic land ice have much greater potential to raise sea level than Arctic sea ice, which is already floating on the ocean.

The collapse of several small ice shelves has caused glaciers to accelerate two - to ninefold and spill more ice into the ocean, raising the sea level.

Totten Glacier, one of East Antarctica's largest ocean outlets, is already thinning — an ominous sign, since this single glacier drains enough ice to raise the sea level more than all of West Antarctica's ice loss would.

Not only are ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica breaking up faster than scientists expected, but more of their melt water is flowing into oceans, he said, which will raise sea levels by 3.3 feet (1 meter) by 2100.

Any reforms to come from the process, starting next week, would affect about 62 percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures raise average sea levels around the globe.

Global greenhouse gas emissions have already committed the residents of the Maldives to a watery future: ocean expansion due to warming has raised sea levels enough to regularly deluge the islands, and melting glaciers will only make matters worse.

When ice shelves get thinner or collapse all together, glaciers speed up and dump more water into the ocean, raising sea levels.

All of that heat in the oceans also raised global sea levels to a new record high, more than 2.5 inches above what it was in 1993, as water expands as it heats up.

When these ice shelves suddenly splinter and weaken or even collapse entirely, as has been observed in Antarctica, the glaciers that feed them speed up, dumping more ice into the ocean and raising global sea levels.

In the deep ocean, a tsunami may raise sea levels by only a few centimeters (inches).

It's now threatened with being submerged as ocean warming raises sea levels.

These videos produced by Plymouth Marine Laboratory provide information about ocean acidification and raises awareness of the implications associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide and changes in seawater pH levels.

While the Alps could lose anything between 75 percent and 90 percent of their glacial ice by the end of the century, Greenland's glaciers — which have the potential to raise global sea levels by up to 20 feet — are expected to melt faster as their exposure to warm ocean water increases.

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Mengel said some simulations produced the warm ocean conditions needed to remove the ice cork within the next 200 years, but It would take around 2,000 years to raise global sea levels by one meter (3.3 feet).

That in turn means all the land ice will have nothing to stop it from sliding into the ocean and raising sea levels more than 10 feet.

Warming surface temperatures and warming ocean temperatures raise sea levels.

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As warming oceans and melting glacial ice raise water levels, flooding from tropical storms has an increasingly devastating impact on highly populated coastal areas.

When it's mentioned that the oceans will rise because of melting ice, one thinks of floating Icebergs and that in itself not raise the level of the sea.

It obscures the role of post-glacial isostatic rebound elsewhere, as in Hudson's Bay and the Baltic, both in forcing more water into the ocean and in some locales raising land faster than the measured rate of sea level rise [ANDY REVKIN notes: Hi Russell.

I still have a problem with the whole premise that moulins were going to «grease the skids» for glaciers to melt and crash off - land into the ocean and raise sea levels.

The assumption in this article is that the Ice that is on the land (not in the ocean) melts and drains into the ocean therefore raising the water level.

OCEANS RISING FAST, NEW STUDIES FIND Melting ice could raise levels up to 20 feet by 2100, scientists say David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor

If we raise the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere to Cretaceous levels and hold it there for 10,000 years or so, the CaCO3 cycle in the ocean will restore the carbonate ion concentration back toward CaCO3 saturation.

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.