Sentences with phrase «running glacial water»
Not exact matches
We filled our hands with cold running water from glacial runoff, drinking deeply.
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Which leads me to another question — the melting glacial / Greenland / Antarctic ice water is depleted in CO2 (check out the bubbles in your ice cubes)-- how much additional CO2 is being sequestered by this runoff into the oceans, and what happens to CO2 increase when we run out of glaciers?
In addition to running climate models, the researchers compared modern warming to similar temperature increases that happened approximately 120,000 years ago in a period known as the Eemian, when global sea level was 5 to 9 meters (between 16 and 30 feet) higher than it is today due to the release of glacial water.
Today, the Southern Ocean's waters are increasingly stratified due to glacial melt run - off of fresh water.
In the long run glacial retreat causes less runoff to be available which in turn reduces overall water supply.