Sentences with phrase «significant amounts of ice»

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets lost significant amounts of ice during these warmer temperatures.

In March, another paper reported that northeast Greenland — long considered relatively stable — was shedding significant amounts of ice (ClimateWire, March 17).

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is out of balance because it is losing significant amounts of ice to the ocean, with the losses not being offset by snowfall.

Until recently, we thought it would be centuries before Greenland lost a significant amount of ice.

So, regardless of if you're celebrating tomorrow with a significant other or a significant amount of ice cream, getting this ab workout in isn't going to hurt.

Another way to look at this is that an eruption large enough to melt a significant amount of ice would be on the order of 100,000,000 Hiroshima bombs.

I don't know a single climate expert who thinks any significant amount of ice would survive a 1,000 ppm world.

The melt season began with a young, thin Arctic sea ice cover, suggesting that significant amounts of ice would be lost during the melt season.

When ice melts, continuous heat is required to continue the melting, yet the temperature will remain the same until a significant amount of the ice has melted.

If it is the Greenland icecap, a considerable amount of warming has to occur before any significant amounts of ice melts.