Sentences with phrase «small local glacier»

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Indeed, within the Baltic Sea, the multitude of small Alaskan Glaciers actually now contributes more to local sea - level rise than the massive Greenland ice sheet.

[Response: I couldn't find the specific post you refer to, but in any case the answer is that alpine glaciers cover a very small fraction of the globe, and their disappearance will have very little impact on local temperature.

Kelly and Lowell (2009) say that «subsequent to late - glacial or early Holocene time, most local glaciers were smaller than at present or may have disappeared completely during the Holocene Thermal Maximum,»