A scientific dictum
states glacier change should happen slowly in the Arctic because temperatures are low, the ice is very cold, and it melts more slowly than ice elsewhere.
Not exact matches
In a presentation Thursday at the Seismology Society of America's annual meeting in Anchorage, West showed that long - ignored data within the
state's earthquake records faithfully capture dynamic
change occurring above ground: ice breaking off of
glaciers and falling into water, the phenomenon known as calving.
«It's an interesting lesson for us when it comes to climate
change,» says Halverson, «because what we get is a thumbnail shift between two stable climatic
states in Antarctica — from no
glaciers to
glaciers.
«If you haven't had proximity to these
glaciers, if you haven't thought about where water comes from, it would be easy to understate or underestimate the implications of glacial ice loss in a
state that has predominantly a semi-desert climate and certainly by contemporary climate models is going to be pretty significantly impacted by climate
change,» said Jacki Klancher, a professor of environmental science at Central Wyoming College.
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The imminent demise of the Qori Kalis
glacier, the main component of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes, offers the starkest evidence yet of the effects of climate
change, according to Lonnie Thompson, of Ohio
State University.
NEWS: Climate
change rather than natural causes is the main driver of
state's
glacier loss, which is set to speed up, US scientists say
(BTW, I just saw a paper in GRL [abstract below] indicating that in addition to the problem of water supply disruption from the lack of a Tibetan
glaciers cap, climate
change makes the Indian subcontinent vulnerable to flipping into a stable dry
state.
The papers questioned everything from the relative role of natural mechanisms in
changes to the climate system vis - à - vis increased CO2 concentrations, the allegedly «unprecedented» nature of modern climate phenomena such as warming, sea levels,
glacier and sea ice retreat, and the efficacy and reliability of computer climate models for projecting future climate
states.
The new report further
states that greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates would induce
changes in the oceans, ice caps,
glaciers, the biosphere, and other components of the climate system.
The 2009
State of the Climate Report of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) tells us that climate
change is real because of rising surface air temperatures since 1880 over land and the ocean, ocean acidification, sea level rise,
glaciers melting, rising specific humidity, ocean heat content increasing, sea ice retreating,
glaciers diminishing, Northern Hemisphere snow cover decreasing, and so many other lines of evidence.
A footnote was included
stating that the assessment of ice loss from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets includes
change in peripheral
glaciers, which is excluded from values given for
glaciers.
Lovins also
states, «Climate
change is a problem we do not need to have, and it is cheaper not to (have it)... Once people understand climate protection puts money back into your pocket because you do not have to buy all that fuel, the political resistance will melt faster than the
glaciers.»
When the Indian government issued a report in early November 2009 (Himalayan
Glaciers, A
state - of - art review of glacial studies, glacial retreat and climate
change) that contradicted the claim, the questions became more persistent.
In a chapter on climate
change impacts in Asia, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report (2007) relied on an error - riddled online article when it discussed the likely state of Himalayan glaciers in
change impacts in Asia, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change's Fourth Assessment Report (2007) relied on an error - riddled online article when it discussed the likely state of Himalayan glaciers in
Change's Fourth Assessment Report (2007) relied on an error - riddled online article when it discussed the likely
state of Himalayan
glaciers in 2035.
In the detached US
state of Alaska, where climate
change has propelled temperatures upwards by more than 3C in the last half century, the
glaciers are melting at a staggering rate, some losing up to 1 km in thickness in the last 100 years.
The report, they contend, misrepresents the
state of scientific knowledge about diverse topics — including the rate of melting of Himalayan
glaciers and the rise in severe storms — in a way that exaggerates the evidence for climate
change.
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«The pictures speak for themselves,» said Jason Box, a
glacier expert at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio
State University, who spotted the
changes while studying new satellite images.
«Controversy about the current
state and future evolution of Himalayan
glaciers has been stirred up by erroneous reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC),»
stated the study.
In Bolivia, drought has combined with a climate
change driven removal of key mountain
glaciers that has produced an endemic
state of water scarcity.
NEWS: Climate
change rather than natural causes is the main driver of
state's
glacier loss, which is set to speed up, US scientists say
However, uncertainty about the current
state of Himalayan
glaciers (4) and the future
state of the climate, as well as an incomplete understanding of the processes affecting Himalayan
glaciers under the current climate, make any projections of climate
change's impact on
glaciers uncertain as well (2, 23, 17, 39).
Many studies
state that the melting of
glaciers is a clear indicator of climate
change (46, 20) and note that
glacier change is the most visible and obvious indicator of
changing temperatures (1, 43).
The difference between this
glacier state and the actual present
glacier state is the committed
glacier change.»
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) has conceded an error when
stating in its last report, released 2007, that Himalayan
glaciers are likely to melt by 2035.
In its Fourth Assessment Report released in 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) erroneously
stated that Himalayan
glaciers were likely to melt completely as soon as 2035.
The imminent demise of the Qori Kalis
glacier, the main component of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes, offers the starkest evidence yet of the effects of climate
change, according to Lonnie Thompson, of Ohio
State University.
The NAPCC includes a National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Eco-system which aims at enhancing understanding of ecosystem
changes and monitoring of the Himalayan ecosystem, in particular the
state of its
glaciers.
And now, right on cue, comes this article from Isabel Hilton on Guardian Environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/20/real-scandal-himalayas in which she
states, among other things, that: «Kyrgyzstan, scientists predict, will lose 80 % of its water supply» [from
glacier depletion] which provokes the following comment from the excellent MrEugenides: «This figure comes from an article Isabel herself wrote on 6 October 2009, quoting a local bureaucrat as saying that water supplies were under pressure from a variety of factors from river diversion and increased water usage to climate
change.