Sentences with phrase «whether glacier retreat»

Those who legitimately question the case for man - made global warming (AGW) do not question whether glacier retreat is evidence of global warming.

Whether a glacier retreats or advances each year largely depends on its mass balance — the difference between how much snow it receives and the amount of its ice that melts away.

Not exact matches

The scientific community is now debating whether irreversible retreat has already started at some glaciers draining the West Antarctic ice sheet.

Finally, Oerlemans's work doesn't address whether or not the worldwide glacier retreat is part of a «natural» phenomenon.

[Response: As I noted in the post, «Oerlemans's work doesn't address whether or not the worldwide glacier retreat is part of a «natural» phenomenon.»

With the exception of glaciers that terminate in the ocean, and glaciers in the polar regions or at extreme high altitudes where the temperature is always below freezing, essentially just two things determine whether a glacier is advancing or retreating: how much snow falls in the winter, and how warm it is during the summer.

I'd like to see someone study whether the 150 - year history of alpine glacial retreat tracks more closely with reduction of mature forest near glaciers than it does with atmospheric CO2 levels.

It appears then that glacier or ice shelf thinning is the key preconditioning factor for collapse, retreat and acceleration, whether you are in Antarctica of Greenland.

The fraction of known glaciers which actually have enough data to even estimate whether they are advancing or retreating is tiny.

Nobody's arguing about whether glaciers are retreating, or whether there is warming since the second half of the 20th century.