Sentences with phrase «substantial ice sheet melting»

The large Eemian sea level excursions imply that substantial ice sheet melting occurred when the world was little warmer than today.

Not exact matches

This is of course some positive news for the Greenland ice sheet, but the warming there is already substantial enough to cause significant net melting.

There are no substantial glacial lakes forming today that could produce comparable amounts of water (although a few hundred years of melting of the Greenland ice sheet could change that situation).

As intriguing a concept as it is, a «tipping point» is less useful if poorly defined quantitatively or largely unknown, as apparently is the case with two key examples that you cite: thermohaline circulation and substantial melting of ice sheets leading to «dangerous» sea level rise.

The impacts of ice shelf collapse and ensuing glacier acceleration are substantial, but in general, the effects of ocean melt are proving to be far more important in controlling ice sheet mass balance.

Not only is this the earliest substantial melt on record, but the refreezing of the rain and meltwater soaking into the ice sheet sets it up for even more melting in the future.

Easterbrook criticized Gore's claims that the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica could lead to substantial increases in sea levels, that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing, and that Bush administration officials have attempted to tamper with official reports on the threat posed by climate change.

It takes thousands and thousands of years to have any substantial melting of ice sheets!