Sentences with phrase «sliding ice levels»

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They are derived from the idea that if the ice buttress for one of these big basins in East Antarctica were to go, you might get lots of ice sliding into the ocean very quickly, then sea level stabilizing after that most unbalanced ice is released.

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 slipperiness helps determine how quickly the ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

First, the frictional process of sliding: glaciers are rivers of ice that move («slide») ice from centers of accumulation to oceans, a process that affects climate and water levels.

Permafrost has thawed, causing houses to slide off suddenly muddy cliffs; sea ice has thinned, creating expanses of open water that rise up in ever higher storm surges; and glaciers are melting, leading local sea levels to climb (albeit very slightly).

MELT ZONE The Totten ice shelf (shown here) holds back a massive glacier, which drains a France - sized portion of East Antarctica and could raise sea levels by at least 3.5 meters if it slides into the sea.

Worst case scenarios of ice sheet melting and sliding lead to estimates of sea - level rise of the worrying 4 to 6 m.

The long - term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of meters, has been called into question with the discovery of fast - moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base.

[SLIDE 17] And so not surprisingly sea level is rising as a result not only of the loss of mountain glaciers and the great land ice sheets — losses from the great land ice sheets; but also thermal expansion of sea water because the ocean is getting warmer.

[SLIDE 26] Coastal erosion — this is the village of Shishmaref, in the far far north of Alaska, where the coastal erosion is not so much from rising sea level but the melting sea ice has reduced the protection from waves.

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.

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Each level brings a new challenge for you and your team to overcome, whether it's sliding around on a pirate ship, moving between speeding trucks, cooking on an ice floe or serving food in the bowels of a fiery underworld, each level will test the mettle of even the bravest chefs.

The section of ice levels prove particularly difficult, because if you move to quickly you will find yourself sliding off the edge very quickly.

Squirtle must slip and slide his way across the ice, while Bulbasaur swings from vine to vine, but unlike the Pokémon games, here you can actually walk away with all three, but it does mean you will have to play through the level three times as each Pokémon to unlock them and if you haven't tried the level for yourself yet, you can find its information below and below that, is a trailer of the starters in action:

Tips: Be careful for the sliding ice at the beginning of the level.

When this ice floats away, more ice is freed to slide downhill and raise sea level.

Oh and by the way, Antarctica is growing colder and the ice cap, is growing; Greenland is below zero and the ice load has depressed the island mundreds of metres below sea level so the ice would need to flow uphill to slide off.

I think when great huge chunks of ice start sliding off the Greenland plateau into the sea and nations start to realise that all the Greenland ice will be gone by 2070 and the sea level will rise by 7 metres by the same date then they will realise this problem can't be tackled by playing economic games with cap and trade.

You write «Just a few more decades of ocean warming would be enough to destabilise the relatively small region of ice by the Amundsen Sea − starting a cascade of slipping and sliding that would tip enough ice into the ocean to raise sea levels by three metres.»

Just a few more decades of ocean warming would be enough to destabilise the relatively small region of ice by the Amundsen Sea − starting a cascade of slipping and sliding that would tip enough ice into the ocean to raise sea levels by three metres.

«With most glaciers that are moving ice from the land into the sea and causing sea level rise in Greenland, the majority of their velocity appears to be due to the flow rather than the sliding,» he said.

«It is really important to understand how the Greenland ice sheet flows, slides and melts today in order to be able to predict how it will contribute to sea level rise in the future,» Dr. Colgan said.

While reading through the litany of attacks, I couldn't help wondering what the attackers thought will happen - if they successfully intimidate the scientists, do they think the ice sheets will stop sliding into the ocean and sea levels will stop rising?

The most obvious consequence of ice loss will be rising sea levels from glaciers sliding into the ocean, and increased global warming as ice - free waters absorb solar energy.

The discovery raises fresh questions about the speed at which sea levels might rise in a warmer world due to the rate at which parts of the ice sheets slide from the land into the ocean, scientists said at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.

The long - term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of meters, has been called into question with the discovery of fast - moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base.

If that hump flattens and the ice slides into the ocean, our sea level rise is now realized and reflected by the new distribution.