Sentences with phrase «thawing tundra»
The phrase "thawing tundra" refers to the process of frozen land in the Arctic regions, known as tundra, starting to melt and become softer due to rising temperatures. Full definition
Thawed tundra just isn't the same as Iowa top soil.
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Many amplifying feedbacks are closely monitored by scientists, including thawing tundra and dying forest releasing massive amounts of heat - trapping CO2, and the way in which the growing amount of darkened land absorbs more of the sun's heat, thus further warming the ground and air.
First, most climate simulations, including ours above and those of IPCC [1], do not include slow feedbacks such as reduction of ice sheet size with global warming or release of greenhouse gases from thawing tundra.
Gigatons galore of methane and other carbon products reside under the Arctic ice and in the thawing tundra and «permafrost» nearby.
Wherever the North polar ice cover is removed to expose the ocean and the tundra, the sun's energy will be absorbed at 10 times the rate, and the thawing tundra will release methane with 20 times the GHG effect of CO2.
Methane, which comes from the stomachs of cattle and sheep, from thawing tundra, from food rotting in landfill and from drilling for oil and mining, is a greenhouse gas that is much more dangerous than carbon dioxide.
Shortly after the Zackenberg Research Station was established in Northeast Greenland, scientists observed a phenomenon that had never been seen before: frozen tundra releasing more greenhouse gas than thawing tundra.
DO NOT INCLUDE SLOW FEEDBACKS such as reduction of ice sheet size with global warming or release of greenhouse gases from thawing tundra.
«Of all the glacial environments, it's one that's most unstable with the potential release of methane gas from its thawing tundra and the release of fresh water into salt water affecting the thermal circulation of the North Atlantic drift.