Sentences with phrase «tropical glaciers do»
In contrast to the midlatitude case, tropical glaciers do not have summertime melt seasons characterized by above - freezing air temperature.
http://www.realclimate.org/
The argument is just nonsense, and doesn't deserve much rebuttal — just notice that tropical glaciers didn't disappear during any Holocene «warm period», for example.
Not exact matches
TROPICAL glaciers may sound like a contradiction in terms, but they do exist.
A glaciologist doesn't let a heart transplant keep him from braving dizzying altitudes to gather crucial ice core samples from retreating tropical and subtropical glaciers
The global mean temperature rise of less than 1 degree C in the past century does not seem like much, but it is associated with a winter temperature rise of 3 to 4 degrees C over most of the Arctic in the past 20 years, unprecedented loss of ice from all the tropical glaciers, a decrease of 15 to 20 % in late summer sea ice extent, rising sealevel, and a host of other measured signs of anomalous and rapid climate change.
Raymond Pierrehumbert, a climate dynamicist at the University of Chicago, kindly offered to write a guest editorial to further clarify what we do and don't know about tropical glacier retreat.
Yet the «sceptics» jump on these findings similar as they did with tropical glacier retreat (hence my article here).
A question that arose in subsequent online discussion was to what extent Oerlemans had relied on glaciers from tropical regions (answer: he didn't), and what the reasons are behind retreat of glaciers in these regions.
I know it only relates to a certain part of the troposphere and there is probably contamination from surface effects, but does this emphasize to a greater extent the importance of tropical glaciers in understanding tropospheric tropospheric trends over the past 100 or so years?
I didn't yet watch the entire session, but I'm wondering if anyone made a case regarding the lack of any long term worsening trend in climate change related issues (sea level rise, glacier melt, tropical systems, floods, extreme drought, tornadoes, etc) comparing pre 1950 (the consensus view of the birth of any potentially observable human footprint on GW) to post 1950?