Sentences with phrase «traps warmer sea water»

The research explains that there is an «amplifying feedback» as polar ice melts, because as more freshwater enters the ocean, it traps warmer sea water, which melts more ice.

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So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

They trap water and pollutants, and shuttle warm water northward — influencing the rate of melting sea ice.

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

The sun - warmed water ranges from knee - deep to about chest - deep and is filled with all kinds of interesting sea creatures that get trapped when the tide goes out.

The sun - warmed clear water is a little over waist deep (for an adult) and is filled with all kinds of interesting fish and sea creatures that get trapped when the tide goes out.

The cities» lawsuits allege — supported by modern climate science — that major oil and natural gas companies contribute substantially to global warming by extracting and using fossil fuels, which emit massive quantities of heat - trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, causing ocean waters to warm and ice sheets to melt, and thus, sea levels to rise, endangering coastal communities.

Numerous scientific studies... show that if heat - trapping emissions continue unabated, global warming is likely to cause more extreme heat in our cities, severe water shortages, loss of species, hazards to coasts from sea level rise, and extreme weather.