Sentences with phrase «sea ice melts faster»

Bigger storm surges as sea ice melts faster.

Swims are occurring more often, in association with sea ice melting faster and moving farther from shore in the summer.»

Not exact matches

Gore begins with hero scientists like Roger Revelle, who first began to imagine the magnitude of this tragedy, and continues through the latest scientific findings, like last fall's revelation that the ice over Greenland seems to be melting much faster than anyone had predicted — news that carries potentially cataclysmic implications for the rate of sea - level rise.

Islands are disappearing, Arctic sea ice is melting faster (pictured) than the most pessimistic of predictions, and we may lose Greenland's ice sheet way ahead of schedule.

Fast - melting Arctic sea ice has forced some 35,000 Pacific walruses to retreat to the Alaska shoreline, scientists from several federal agencies said on Wednesday.

When parts of the ice melt, liquid water trickles to the base and this can lubricate the underside of the ice sheet, allowing it to slide more quickly into the sea and drive up sea levels at a faster rate.

The conclusion that limiting CO2 below 450 ppm will prevent warming beyond two degrees C is based on a conservative definition of climate sensitivity that considers only the so - called fast feedbacks in the climate system, such as changes in clouds, water vapor and melting sea ice.

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

The shrinking sea ice drives a classic positive feedback loop: as more ice melts, fewer patches of white snow reflect solar energy, and larger regions of dark, sunlight - absorbing seawater open up — both causing the ice to melt even faster.

When the planet's big ice sheets collapsed at the end of the last ice age, their melting caused global sea levels to rise as much as 100 meters in roughly 10,000 years, which is fast in geological time, Mann noted.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

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.

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

Seas rising much faster, super storms in the coming decades, doubling and re-doubling of polar ice melt — new Hansen paper.

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.

Climate change is warming the Arctic twice as fast as the rest of the world, melting sea ice to historically low levels and threatening the viability of the region's vibrant ecosystems.

Global ice - sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea - ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea - level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world's top climate scientists.

The report found that global ice sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea ice is thinning and melting much faster than recently projected, and future sea - level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast.

Seas rising much faster, super storms in the coming decades, doubling and re-doubling of polar ice melt.

In both cases, however, the melting of ice that reaches the sea allows ice further inland to flow faster, boosting the overall transfer of ice from the continent to the ocean and adding to the rise in sea level.

The cause of the rise in sea level is guessed to be the melting of glacial ice at a faster rate than it is being replenished.

At Barrow, Alaska, the grave yard washed away because the fast [ened to the land] sea ice melted.

And this is just one element in the sea level rise — small ice caps are melting faster, thermal expansion will increase in line with ocean heat content changes and Antarctic ice sheets are also losing mass.

If the case can be made that present sea level rise is due to ice melting, that would seem like a good indicator of where things were going and how fast.

In probing the fast - changing ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, Gordon Hamilton of the University of Maine exemplified the qualities in the rare breed of scientists, engineers and field staff willing to go to extremes — literally — to help clarify the pace at which seas will rise as warming glacial ice melts.

Little winter snow in the Alpine ski resorts, continuing droughts in Africa, mountain glaciers melting faster than at any time in the past 5,000 years, disappearing Arctic sea ice, Greenland's ice sheet sliding into the sea.

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 reportingMelting 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 reportingmelting 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.

In my opinion, the only thing keeping the remaining single - year sea ice from melting even faster than last year's ice is the shift in the PDO.

They contain enough ice to raise global sea level by 4 feet (1.2 meters) and are melting faster than most scientists had expected.

In recent years, Greenland's ice has been melting more and flowing faster into the sea — a record amount of ice melted from the frozen mass this summer, according to recently released data — and Earth's rising temperatures are suspected to be the main culprit.

Sea ice this year is melting at a pace two to four weeks faster than normal as pulses of warm air have been streaming into the Arctic from eastern Siberia and northern Europe and sea ice has retreated early from the Beaufort SSea ice this year is melting at a pace two to four weeks faster than normal as pulses of warm air have been streaming into the Arctic from eastern Siberia and northern Europe and sea ice has retreated early from the Beaufort Ssea ice has retreated early from the Beaufort SeaSea.

However, he noted that climate models are continually being reworked and a lot will depend on how fast Arctic sea ice melts, which he says acts as «an air conditioner for the hemisphere,» reflecting incoming solar radiation right back into space.

The faster Arctic ice melts and the more open sea is revealed, the more heat that becomes available to melt the remaining ice and heat up the sea.

All ice types, including massive ice sheets, mountain glaciers and Arctic sea ice (frozen sea - surface), are for the most part melting far faster than predicted three years ago.

Colin Summerhayes of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge said three - degrees of warming would melt polar and glacier ice much further and faster than currently expected, potentially raising sea levels by two metres by 2100.

Sea level rises reflect melting of the Greenland ice sheet, where melting since measurements began in 1979 increased by 30 percent (S. Konrad, University of Colorado, AGU, 2008), and of the west Antarctica ice sheet which is losing ice at rates 60 percent faster than 10 years ago (British Antarctic Survey, Nature Geoscience, 2008).

I must point out that this particular section generally holds info up to about 2010 ~ and so doesn't directly mention all the additional weight of scientific info in the last five years [i.e. all the newer «hot year» global records and even faster Ice Melt and sea - level rise].

And science is emerging suggesting a link between the melting of Arctic sea ice on one hand and faster warming in the region and changes to the northern hemisphere jet stream on the other, explaining why some weather systems appear to get «stuck in place» — to often - devastating effect.

By Sreeja VN: Sizzling underwater glacial ice, as it melts into warmer sea water, creates one of the loudest natural marine environments, and the air bubbles that pop during the process could help scientists measure the rate of glacier melt and track fast - changing polar environments.

The mere third of the 1 % of planetary land ice in the Arctic archipelago is disproportionately contributing to sea level rise as it melts much faster than the colder, bigger ice caps.

A warming climate is not just melting the Arctic's sea ice; it is stirring the remaining ice faster, increasing the odds that ice - rafted pollution will foul a neighboring country's waters, says a new study.

Glaciers and ice sheets are rapidly melting, causing sea levels to elevate, but not fast enough.

The many fast - moving outlet glaciers around the Greenland coast are constantly calving ice into the ocean, where the melting ice affects sea level.

Their scientific cruises on the shallow continental shelf occurred as sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was rapidly melting and as northern Siberia was earning the distinction — along with the North American Arctic and the western Antarctic Peninsula — of warming faster than any place on Earth.

Greenland's ice has been melting faster than many scientists expected just a decade ago, spurred by warming sea and land temperatures, changing weather patterns, and other factors.

After the ice sheets began to melt and retreat, sea level rose rapidly, with several periods of even faster spurts.

Field observations summarized in the contribution by Hutchings and discussed in this month's Regional Outlook indicate that starting ice thicknesses were comparable to last year in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, and that after getting off to a fast start, melt has slowed down considerably, resulting in below - normal melt rates.

The likelihood of the complete loss of Arctic summer sea ice by 2030, faster melting of the vast Greenland ice sheets, and the rapid and quickening thaw of permafrost regions indicate that the window for arresting climate change before tipping points are reached is rapidly closing.

Regionally, it can help delay sea ice loss, but on a pan-arctic scale it enhances overall ice melt and ice volume reduction, as these old floes melt faster at lower latitudes.

Judith - Apart from the general anthro vs. natural disussion of sea ice, I'm always wondering: has anyone seriously considered / studied the possible anthropogenic contribution from NON-CO2 sources (black carbon soot / aerosol deposits on the ice surface, increasing the albedo, melting the ice faster in the sun)?