Sentences with phrase «warm under the glaciers»

It was amusing a while back that the goracle couldn't make it to a speech because of inclement weather, but take this to its logical conclusion: some day he won't be able to go to a speech because there won't be any audience to go to the speech — they're all trying to stay warm under the glaciers.

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The glacier is currently experiencing significant acceleration, thinning and retreat that is thought to be caused by «ocean - driven» melting; an increase in warm ocean water finding its way under the ice shelf.

Understanding how layers of air insulate the surface of glaciers, for example, is vital to making accurate estimates of how fast they will melt — and sea levels will rise — as the Earth warms under its blanket of greenhouse gases.

Because, and this is the crux of the new paper, scientists have discovered deep channels where warmer water can flow right under the glacier.

These glaciers typically move via basal sliding or subglacial deformation under wet (warm)- based ice in the accumulation area, but only by internal ice deformation in the colder parts.

Under warming conditions glaciers may contribute as much as more than half a meter by 2100.»

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

Under all RCP scenarios the rate of sea level rise will very likely exceed that observed during 1971 — 2010 due to increased ocean warming and increased loss of mass from glaciers and ice sheets.

Under the right circumstances glaciers melt abruptly, regional forests and soil become carbon emitters abruptly, and oceanic / atmospheric currents shift abruptly, leading to rapid global warming.

If one wants to make the connection to global warming for this glacier, one will need to proof that ocean temperatures under the ice have increased.

As glaciers in the Himalayas melt faster due to global warming, pollutants buried under them are finding their way down to the north Indian plains.

Warm ocean water plays a significant role in melting glacial ice from below, and a better mapping of Antarctica's and Greenland's landforms beneath the ice suggests that ocean melting of the glacier fronts may play a more significant role than previously thought as the ice sheets retreat (under a global warming scenario).

Tree stumps and even human artefacts have been discovered under NATURALLY RETREATING glaciers as the climate WARMS NATURALLY from the coldest period in 10,000 years.

Sure, there was warming and glaciers are receding, but the logical leap that this warming is because of humans is simply an unsubstantiated claim, even more so when considering that you can find Roman remains under receded glaciers in the Alps or Viking graves in thawed permafrost in Greenland.

I say CO2 simply follows ocean outgassing / absorption as it warms and cools and temperatures are bounded by planetary albedo i.e. how much land can potentially be locked under high albedo glaciers or alternatively how much can be exposed to present a lower albedo.

However, there have been other studies in both the Swiss and Austrian alps (e.g. Schlüchter, Patzelt), which have found carbon - dated remains of trees under receding glaciers, supporting the conclusion that the glacial extent during the Roman Warm Period and the MWP (as well as during earlier warm periods) was less than toWarm Period and the MWP (as well as during earlier warm periods) was less than towarm periods) was less than today.

The rise was caused partly by the simple thermal expansion of sea water under the influence of global warming, and increasingly by the melting of glaciers and ice sheets.

In the short term, retreating glaciers may release greater meltwater, «but it will be exhausted when glaciers disappear under a continuous warming,» says Liu Shiyin, who led the survey for [continue reading...]

34 Temperatures Rising due to Global Warming Effects Glaciers melting Greenland — If all of the ice melts, oceans will rise 23 feet Antarctic — major reduction in ice coverage Permafrost in Tundra is releasing CO2 that is stored under the ice